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Picking Up Sticks: Tony Coote of the Steve Cradock Band - Interview for The Huffington Post

An Interview with the very talented writer Jason Holmes for The Huffington Post.

The Godiva Festival with The Steve Cradock Band

Playing a festival in the baking heat on the hottest day of the year can be demanding to say the least. My first stick throw to the audience, don't think I'll be making a habit of it...
 

Burlesque Beats at The Playboy Club

Accompanying the fabulous Miss Polly Rae at The Playboy Club, London. (Photo courtesy of http://www.melbagshaw.com/).

The Greg Foat Group at The South Bank

A lovely little drawing someone made of myself and Phil Achille whilst performing at the National Theater on The South Bank. I never got to thank the artist but was a very nice gesture, great gig too.

The Greg Foat Group at The World Wide Awards

 
Had the pleasure of performing at Giles Peterson's World Wide Awards in Camdens Koko. Was great to stretch out musically to an appreciative audience.

Steve Cradock Band play the 100 club

Was an honour to play the legendary 100 club on Oxford Street with Steve Cradock. Played to a full house with Mr Weller in attendance. 2013 brings a new album from Steve as well as a supporting tour for the album and festival dates. More to come...

Peven Everett at The Stadtmusik Festival

Last weekend I was privileged to back up the legend Peven Everett with The gfg at The Stadtmusik Festival in Basel, Switzerland. Set in the grounds of The Kunst Museum we were booked to play an hour and a half but everyone loved it so much we played an hour overtime.
This was certainly one of the best gigs I've played, amazing considering we met the night before and had no rehearsals. Very much looking forward to playing with Peven and the boys again soon.

Roundhouse gig for Able2uk with Steve Cradock

Amazing night at the Camden Roundhouse on the 20th August supporting Friendly Fires, Mystery Jets, Miles Kane etc. Really great charity empowering disabled people by supplying everything they need to enjoy a festival. We were joined on stage by James Buckley for the penultimate song 'Last days of the old World', check the footage below...

Recording the follow up to Dark is the Sun by the GFG

A short film I made documenting the recording sessions for the next Greg Foat Group album, Girl and Robot with Flowers.

The Greg Foat Group at The Boiler Room

Webcast footage of our appearance on The Boiler Room from back last summer. 

14 hours on the tour bus from Hamburg supporting Beady Eye with Steve Cradock, only to go straight into this live broadcast. Once we had wrapped I then did another gig at the ECC with Greg and the boys. A good day. 

  

 

The Greg Foat Group 2nd Album recording Sessions

This winter I've had my head down concentrating on writing and demo'ing new material with Steve, Greg and the Cat Black boys. Its all slowly coming to fruition, Steve's next album is being recorded in April and Cat Black's steadily developing its sound and songs.

Last week I visited Sweden for my second session recording the follow up to "Dark Is The Sun" by The Greg Foat Group, released through Jazzman records. Kungsten Studios in Gothenburg is without doubt the finest studio I have worked in, the vintage analogue recording equipment is second to none. Every take was recorded live to an Ampex 16 track 2" tape machine with no digital overdubs/cut and paste jobs. This required intense concentration and listening as well as technique and a bit of luck to get the perfect take. The next GFG record is sounding much more contemporary and psychedelic than the last with more emphasis on the beat and abstraction through form.
I'm very much looking forward to heading back to Sweden to finish the mix and eventually receiving another Greg Foat Group album on vinyl.

Steve Cradock German Tour Sept 2011

 6 gigs in 6 nights in 6 city's across Germany with The Steve Cradock Band. A real pleasure to be playing with such a great bunch of people, Steve and Sal, Andy Crofts from The Moons and Freddie Ansell from the Computers. Everyone listening and enjoying playing the songs for a very receptive audience.
 
See the clip below of 'Beware of Falling Rocks' recorded 5th night in at the Werkstatt, Koln.

Halden Pop Festival

Yet another crazy/amazing trip to Germany with Steve Cradock, this time to play at the Halden Pop Festival. Did a radio show for one of the big stations out there on the Friday followed by a performance at Halden. Really great reception from the crowd, those Germans know their music.

Watch a promo from the festival on the link below
 
Halden Pop Festival

iTunes festival at The Roundhouse with The Steve Cradock Band

So last week was a busy one, played the iTunes festival supporting Beady Eye on the Tuesday then a festival in Bremen, Germany the next day with all the travelling that goes with it.

Amazing experience at the Roundhouse, was a little bit overwhelming considering it was streamed live to a potential audience of 235 million!
Check the entire gig at the link below
  

http://www.itunesfestival.com/gb/live

The Greg Foat Group - Live

Here are a couple of videos from recent GFG gigs featuring Greg Foat on Piano, Liam Danby on Bass and Tony Coote on Drums.

 

 Michelle @ The Shoreditch

Rainy Night on Georgia @ The ECC

Steve Cradock Soundcheck from the drummers point of view

Playing Wolverhampton Civic Hall was certainly a highlight of the tour supporting Beady Eye. Incredible sounding venue and really great audience. Here's a video of the soundcheck from the drummers perspective...

Cat Black

A little something I've been working on with the boys, CAT BLACK.
Début gig supporting The Fabulous Penetrators at Catch in Shoreditch, 30th April 2011


"Like" Cat Black and see more of the gig here - Cat Black Facebook

Steve Cradock Promo 'Only look up when you're down'

New promo video for the song 'Only look up when you're down' taken from Steve's new album 'Peace City West' which is released on Monday. Features the band and Freddie's Dad whistling.

Steve Cradock Promo for I-Man

This is the new promo video for I-Man which is taken from Steve Cradocks forthcoming album, Peace City West.