Robin Grey https://www.robingrey.com Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:22:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 Spring tour with Emmy the Harp and Amy Bowles https://www.robingrey.com/2024/01/spring-tour-with-emmy-the-harp-and-amy-bowles/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:58:14 +0000 https://www.robingrey.com/?p=4476 Continue reading "Spring tour with Emmy the Harp and Amy Bowles"

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I am excited, nervous and a whole host of other emotions, to announce that I will be out on the road doing some shows singing my songs in a few months time.

After a decade of largely focussing my artistic energies on Three Acres And A Cow, the time has finally ripened to return to live performance of my own songs. If the stars line up, I will also be releasing some new music to coincide with this.

Performing with me will be Emmy the Harp, playing harp and flute and Amy Bowles on guitars. They are both old friends and very talented musicians who I am very lucky to have working with me.

Wednesday 13th March
Cross Street Chapel in Manchester
with support from Gideon Conn

Thursday 14th March
The Carousel in Nottingham
with support from Tim Ralphs

Friday 15th March
Open Source Arts in Leeds
with support from Georgie Buchanan

Saturday 16th March
Upper Chapel in Sheffield
with support from Soup Review

Emmy the Harp

Amy Bowles

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The Landworkers’ Alliance album launch https://www.robingrey.com/2021/07/the-landworkers-alliance-album-launch/ Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:23:49 +0000 https://www.robingrey.com/?p=4435 Continue reading "The Landworkers’ Alliance album launch"

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🌱 Just getting back up to speed with computers after playing at the super Landworkers’ Alliance album launch-fest gig in Abergavenny.

Please support this wonderful organisation and buy a copy of this album, so brilliantly curated by Sid Goldsmith and Humphrey Lloyd, which is chock full of protest tunes (inc a reworking of my track The Ballad of Hawkwood)

💿 CD 👉 https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/shop/stand-up-now-the-lwa-album-cd/

🎧 Download 👉 https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/shop/stand-up-now-the-lwa-album-digital-download/

…or you can listen on Spotify….but what good would that do anyone?

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Forest records birthday gig on Weds 27th April https://www.robingrey.com/2021/04/forest-records-birthday-gig-on-weds-27th-april/ Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:25:00 +0000 https://www.robingrey.com/?p=4427 Continue reading "Forest records birthday gig on Weds 27th April"

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I am doing a set of songs with Hazel Thompson on Wednesday evening to celebrate the launch of Edinburgh’s Forest Cafe (Forest Happenings) 20th birthday album.

There are some amazing other acts and I imagine it will be as eclectic and gracefully chaotic as ever! I’m on around the 10-10.20pm (BST) mark (ish)

https://www.facebook.com/events/293141795728143/

https://forestrecords.bandcamp.com/

https://blog.theforest.org.uk/

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Forest Records 20th birthday album https://www.robingrey.com/2020/12/forest-records-20th-birthday-album/ Wed, 09 Dec 2020 14:51:00 +0000 https://www.robingrey.com/?p=4404 Continue reading "Forest Records 20th birthday album"

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Forest 20/20 is a new double-sided compilation celebrating 20 years of Forest – Edinburgh’s only volunteer-powered grassroots arts space. Some of my favourite gigs of all time have been at this magic arts and activism space so I was really happy to have a tune included on the album.

Forest 20/20 – much like Forest itself has always been – is an eclectic mix of styles, themes and creativity – from poetry to punk, chiptune to folk tunes – Forest has always had time and space for everyone. I hope you will enjoy the sounds of Forest contained within and find something old that will trigger a memory of good times past and something new to help celebrate the good times still to come:

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Growing Roots in the Heart of the Empire https://www.robingrey.com/2020/08/growing-roots-in-the-heart-of-the-empire/ Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:13:56 +0000 https://www.robingrey.com/?p=4392 ]]> At 4pm on 14th August, I’ll be bringing some music to this broadcast with Landworkers’ Alliance‘s Jyoti Fernandes and Deirdre Woods.

You can watch via A Growing Culture‘s facebook or https://www.youtube.com/user/AGrowingCulture #HungerForJustice

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Gigging from home https://www.robingrey.com/2020/06/gigging-from-home/ Fri, 26 Jun 2020 11:58:00 +0000 https://www.robingrey.com/?p=4412 Continue reading "Gigging from home"

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I had a lot of fun performing from home last week as part of my history of land rights show Three Acres And A Cow. We had around 500 people in the audience which was mind blowing including people from Canada, Australia and Orkey!

Below is my front room set up for the show including webcam on a tripod, mic into audio interface into pc and a tv for monitoring the show. Below is a photo someone shared of my face broadcast on their massive tv! There was another hillarious photo of someone watching from a laptop in sunny Portugal but I can’t seem to find it right now.

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Closing song for the Oxford Real Farming Conference https://www.robingrey.com/2020/01/closing-song-for-the-oxford-real-farming-conference/ Thu, 16 Jan 2020 20:17:52 +0000 https://www.robingrey.com/?p=4396 ]]>
Had an amazing time closing the Oxford Real Farming Conference with some pals, leading over 600 farmers and land workers in a sing-a-long of Amazing Grace
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Playlist of instrumental tracks on soundcloud https://www.robingrey.com/2019/02/playlist-of-instrumental-tracks-on-soundcloud/ Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:14:37 +0000 https://www.robingrey.com/?p=4351 ]]> I made a little playlist of some of my instrumental tracks for a film making friend to graze recently. Thought I’d pop it here just in case anyone else fancies a listen.

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Studio ‘spot the difference’ time https://www.robingrey.com/2018/10/studio-spot-the-difference-time/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:40:22 +0000 https://www.robingrey.com/?p=4342 ]]>

Spot the difference time… I just had a new arrival who I’m really looking forward to pointing microphones at!

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Hitting the 5m streams mark on Jamendo https://www.robingrey.com/2018/07/hitting-the-5m-streams-mark-on-jamendo/ Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:21:29 +0000 https://www.robingrey.com/?p=4325 Continue reading "Hitting the 5m streams mark on Jamendo"

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In November of 2008, I uploaded a collection of recordings to a website called Jamendo. Back then it was a myspace-type music social networking site for people who released music using creative commons licenses.

It was peak Napster and some bands were trying to sue fans who shared their music online. Embracing creative commons licenses felt like an appropriate response to this.

I uploaded my music to lots of websites back then, many which have since sunk without a trace, in the belief that some might survive and if my music was any good, someone might listen to it.

Last month I passed 5m streams on Jamendo. I have no idea who most of those listeners are; all I can say for sure, is that it’s not just my mum who listens to my music anymore. Thank you if you are one of those people.

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