18th August 2010 – No ID, no Idea….

AW blog Wednesday 18th August 2010

2 shows in now on the 6 date Ozzfest US tour and Tinley Park in Chicago last night was superb. A great show and amazing crowd. Great view from the back from this fans camera phone footage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XiPTHSPBM8

Only slight downer from last nights show is that I left my wallet in a case in the dressing room at Tinley park, which is in a truck on it’s way on a 600 mile journey to Pittsburg. This wouldn’t normally be an issue, but as we have our own plane for this tour, and my passport is having a visa put in it in New York, the news that my driving license was in my wallet was less than well received.
Trains are all sold out to Pittsburg and most of the day so far has been spent at the British Consulate here in Chicago trying to get some sort of replacement ID. This will hopefully mean I can still get on the plane tomorrow morning from Chicago. Failing that …. any fans fancy giving me a lift to Pittsburg from Chicago?

Some great HD footage here from this fan
Paranoid (with me on guitar) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pl9lwytVQg&feature=channel

And some TV footage from the Jimmy Kimmel show in Los Angeles last week where we play on of the songs I co wrote from the album “Scream”.

Great news on the Headspace progress, Damian is going into the studio next week to record vocals for the debut album. Finally things seem to be getting towards finishing the album. It’ll be worth the wait….

AW

Iceland, frozen pizza and recording.

Slightly late with my weekend blog, due primarily to 2 of our 3 children being poorly. It’s amazing how soon you forget what sleepless nights are like… Anyway, Mr Wilson has been here at my studio in Buckinghamshire to record the vocal on a track as a tribute to a band we cant mention for a publication we also can’t mention.
Guesses on a postcard….! More on that soon.

We are recording vocals too over the next few weeks for the album, some here at my studio and some in London at Wendyhouse studios, a great place in Shephards Bush owned by Robbie Williams’ bass player Jerry Meehan. Unfortunately my studio (and home) are currently in the process of being boxed and moved before the tour starts with Ozzy in May.

Latest news on Ozzy’s new album here:
http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/303/18402/Ozzy%20Osbourne.html
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=138540

Pete is still out in America although was meant to be back here a few days back but Iceland put a stop to that.
Not the volcano that’s been erupting and stopping all flights in and out of Europe, but the frozen food chain ‘Iceland’ that’s had a sale on. Pete had a delivery to New York and is still unable to leave his hotel room due to a mis order of 1,700 frozen pizzas.

More progress on the album weekly (hopefully) from now!

AW

Latest news on tv & film scores : Monday 29th March 2010

A short film I composed the score to entitled “Night/Day” has been selected for this year’s London Independent Film Festival: http://www.londonindependent.org/OS2010.htm
The festival takes place from April 15-27, 2010 at some of London’s best cinemas.
http://www.nightdayfilm.com

A great new series called”Captain’s Blog” that uses my theme music can be view here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kerpXn5Djg

Hopefully more news in this field to follow soon….

Ad’s Birthday week blog March 2010

Welcome back to the blog from Headspace HQ here in the sleepy village of Akeley in Buckinghamshire. Pete’s still shredding his way round the States with One Eskimo and is scheduled to return for a week at the end of March which will be good to catch up. Lee is just coming to the end of a run with It Bites and Rich has been busy in his studio recording drums on a couple of album sessions. In the meantime, I’ve been recording some keyboards on the album and this coming week will see the start of the drum recording with Rich down in London, which I think is a big city down south somewhere. Living in the country, I don’t get into the city much….

Damian is also paying a brief visit for a couple of days this week to visit a few studios to decide on where the vocals are to be recorded. He’s also working with me on a track for a film which we need to have finished by the end of the week.

Been a busy ‘family’ week with my brood celebrating my 36th birthday probably more enthusiastically than me. The best ‘day out’ find for quite some time is Wendover Woods, just outside the village of Aston Clinton in Aylesbury Vale which has a great cafe several miles into the woods and fantastic scenery and walks through the woods. Great for kids and dogs, and I also think we may have had the first BBQ of the season.

In Ozzy news, the album is nearly mixed and we’re still waiting for a release date, although I suspect it will be in June time ready for the start of the world tour in July. Kevin Churko the producer (who we are hoping to have mix the Headspace album) is already working on the new album for the band “In this moment” who are managed by Blasko, Ozzy’s bass player. I’m really looking forward to getting back out with the guys and although there’s been some personnel changes since the last one, I’m certain it will be a great tour. Look out for some UK dates to be announced soon. Who knows, maybe we can showcase the Headspace album if we can sneak on the bill!!

More news and videos soon. Check out www,youtube.com/headspacetheband for the latest video diaries from us lot.

Blizzards, beer and marriage.

Happy New Year everyone!

Headspace ventured up to Edinburgh on the 1st January 2010 for drummer Richard Brooks wedding to his lovely wife Jo!

check out the iphone videos at :

http://www.youtube.com/headspacetheband

and Pete’s blog at :

http://www.headspaceonline.com

Recording starts early next week for Headspace’s debut album. Watch this space….

Adam’s Xmas Blog

First of all a huge Happy Christmas to everyone from us guys and management of Headspace.

I would also like to say hi to all the people that came along to the Wakeman Xmas extravaganza at Marlborough college on Saturday and Sunday the 19th & 20th December.

The 2 nights, rather confusingly titled “Sadly, the Queen couldn’t make it” has become somewhat of a regular event with Rick Wakeman’s fan club Xmas dinner on the Sunday which this year raised money for Children’s Cancer charities.

I played a few pieces with Dad, and on the Sunday night, I played and sang “Hallilulia” with my sister Jemma singing some harmonies. I was also joined on stage by my 4 year old daughter Skyla (who is less familiar with it as a Lenard Cohen song, and more familiar with it as a song from the movie Shrek) who also sang the chorus’s with me. It was a beautiful moment that I can’t really put into words, but it made at least 2 grown men (that I know of) cry!

I played a couple of TV shows with Will Young in the weeks leading up to Xmas; Cheryl Cole’s show and Graham Norton, both of which were good fun – although the organisation at Cheryl Cole’s tv show was shocking and we were left in a dressing room for about 8 hours without so much as a glass of water. You’ve got to love TV – anyone who thinks it’s all showbiz air kisses and champagne, think again….

Ozzy’s new album is being mixed in the new year and it looks like my 6 co writes are on there which is great news. There were rumours in a UK magazine that the 2 year world tour starts in June so that means we’ll be coming to a city near you, wherever that is!

In Headspace news:

Damian’s been busy in Holland. The show was in Tilburgs 013 venue. There was an orchestra and a great band made up of musicians he has worked with over the years. The turn out was great especially due to the heavy snow conditions and it was filmed.
There was a great line up too, such as Jorn Lande , Christina Scabbia ,, Simon Simons and Charlotte Wessels. here’s a link to the event:

http://christmasmetalsymphony.net/

Pete is now back from his 2 month US tour with One Eskimo and is currently (most probably) still in a queue at Kings Cross station trying to get on a eurostar train to Paris for Christmas. Lee is snowed in somewhere in Sussex and Rich is pulling his hair out with wedding preparations. We are all excited at the prospect of us all being in the same room together as a band and who knows, might even get to have a play…..

That leaves us wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ! Album recording starts 2nd week in Jan and we’re all very excited…. watch this space……

Last FM

Come along and listen to Headspace’s ep “I am…” at http://www.last.fm/music/Headspace
We share the page with a college indi band so make sure you play our EP and add it to your playlist!

In other news, Damian has recently come to the end of his successful solo tour, and off with Threshold for a couple of weeks in Europe. Back at Headspace HQ it’s full steam ahead on finishing writing the final few tracks for the debut concept album. All the members of Headspace are busy on other projects but as, always still find the time to dedicate a little studio time to the album. Lee has currently put his bass away for a few weeks after shows with It Bites in the USA and UK, and heads off on honeymoon. Our best wishes to him & Jill.

Pete has just come back from supporting Tori Amos on her US & UK tour with the band “One Eskimo” after recording their album in LA earlier this year and Adam returned home from a couple of shows in the US with Ozzy and 3 weeks writing & recording the new Ozzy album due for release next year. Once again, the brilliant Mr Kevin Churko is producing and co writing the Ozzy album. Adam is also playing keyboards & acoustic guitar for Will Young on his UK winter “Hits” tour. Dates can be found at: http://www.willyoung.co.uk

Rich has been busy in his studio recording his drum parts for several of the Headspace tracks. A Headspace Christmas party is being planned for December and the prospect of all 5 members of the band being in the same room together is certainly a day worth celebrating! More news, however trivial next week…..