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4/21/2010 Magnetic North Arrives
Dear everyone/everything,
So the new album is out, released, available, released!
(weak cheer). C'mon - you can do better than that! Brand New Album full of beautiful, sad, funny, unusual, usual heavy and light and dark and sumptuous AquaSongs it's called Magnetic North and it's OUT!...TOMORROWWWW!!!!!!!.....
(weak cheer).
Buy it here (on my site)
I hope you like it. I like it.
(For non US and Canadian buyers, we're opening a shop at www.aqualung.net shortly. We'll let you know when it's launch time.)
Then i go on tour to play said songs for you plus favourites old and new.
Krista Polvere from Australia is coming to play too and fine evenings of music and conversation will be had. Dates are at http://www.aqualung.net/tour.aspx I thought it might be fun to have a TOUR COMPETITION because we all love competitions. Here is my competition idea:
Aqualung tour joke competition.
I am terrible at telling jokes. I can never remember any and if I do try and tell one I get all the bits in the right order, often starting with the punchline which is not a good way to start a joke. I need help...
SO. My Amazing Competition goes like this:
1. Buy a ticket to the aquashows nearest to you.
2. Email me at (info@firstcolumn.co.uk) with your favourite joke. Mention which show you are coming to.
3. I will choose my favourite one, attempt to learn it, then attempt to tell it at the appropriate show.
4. The winner also gets Free Stuff and a Special Prize made by me from Whatever I can Find.
5. Yeah!
Ok. So get your entries in and may the best joke win!*
And some news for UK listeners;
Ever since I realised that you could decide what music the piano played and thus discovered the deep deep joy that comes from creating a new piece of music, I had a little hope/dream.
My little hope/ dream was that oneday I would write a song that would magically get out into the world and into people's lives and be special to them the way so many songs were special to me. It took a long time but in
2002 it happened. And amazingly it's happened several times since then. It is a constant source of wonder and grateful cheer
- hooray!
Anyway, the first time it happened was a song called 'Strange and Beautiful'
(my mother-in-law insists on calling it Strange but Beautiful I don't know why...). And now, 8 years later it seems to be having another magical moment in the UK thanks to channel 4 and this:
http://www.film4.com/videos/article/film4s-incredibles
Anyhoooo. Our brave little song is climbing up the uk pop charts and with a bit if help might be a hit again next Sunday. You know what to do!
See you soon!
Matt
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* filthy jokes are fine. Acually unpleasant and offensive ones are not.
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