You Need to see / hear this band https://www.wegottickets.com/event/593559#
26th April they play In Chelmsford
read about them in objective words here and Classic Pops ( love that mag ) amazing article on Held By Trees
https://open.spotify.com/embed/artist/1ymZF1ZIsHaqneEoqAi7lz?utm_source=generator
I’m not gonna rant and rave ( well maybe a bit …) but at the risk of sounding like a total loon I’ve had an epiphany / amazing tripple whammy concidence after a big life change
I started working at an amazing company ( warm) it was an amzing experience but also quite stressful for a number of reasons I wont go into the best thing about it was I got to know the amazing and talented Mickey Browne
we worked side by side me as a booking agent and handling multiple tasks/ spinning plates and he running the Re: warm label , getting to work with Mickey and hang out and talk music was / is one of the great pleausres of my life in all honesty.
he gave me loads of great opportunities / laughs and encouragement to ( usually too blue to publish )
I Joke but he is my ROCK and I’m living laughing and loving again xx (eeeee thanks doll face )
1 ) First eeerie coicidence / jungian synchronicty theory in action
Often I would get totally distracted by Mickeys work as he would be playing new / old songs that were going to be included on the various Warm compilations
He was playing the latest comp of the label and night Afficianado ( , DJs Jason Boardman and Moonboots more on them here
and the first track was by Held By Trees – and I had heard it before after good pal and friend of Kerry Robinson Chris Mears sent it to me after we had reconnected after many years and got talking about Talk Talk ( boom tish )
BOOOM sonic booom
at the Time of hearing it I was blown away and I had forgotten that Chris had mentioned his involvement, months later I got in touch with mutual pal of Mearsey and Kerry Chris Peddley musician , film maker , face and and bit of a legend as I wanted to get back to DJing and putting on live gigs after a short spurt with Tom Moon at the Poole Hill Brewery nights Desert Shore I mentioned In the Trees and wanting to get involved and maybe put them on and what did he know about them and that they are incredible and I knew a bit about the Talk Talk legacy but not that much but I was ravenous to know more and so is Mickey …
in short
Held By Trees’ debut album brings together eight alumni of the revered Talk Talk albums Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock, and Mark Hollis’ only solo album on new instrumental music.
Alongside the likes of Robbie McIntosh (guitar), Martin Ditcham (drums), Simon Edwards (bass) and Phill Brown (mix), the album also features…
Tim Renwick (Guitar – Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Eric Clapton)
Mike Smith (Saxophone – Blur, Gorillaz, Jamiroquai)
Gary Alesbrook (Trumpet – Super Furry Animals, Kasabian, Noel Gallagher)
Blues/roots legend Eric Bibb.
Boom – 2 number 2 coincidence / event
he said Im going to see / chat with David at my friends studio and do you want to come along meet and have a look – I immediately thought this is so odd / amazing / spoooky
thats a seperate entity in itself the studio – it is rediculous with its own reverb chamber made from a basement ( dig the cosmic hole ! ) – I’m hoping to send some cosmic messages between musicians I love and send them to this unearthly echo womb ( more on this studio at a later date )
I digress
Booooooom mind blow
So I went over and Met David and flipping out both as a fan and reverb nerd- this is a sepearate story in itself …
at the same time Mickey is having a conversation with David and we ( mickey and I ) were texting going wtf they are from Bournemouth ??!!
and now I’m really hoping to help them out / release their music / book them some shows , whatever I can do to spread the notes – the sparsity and beauty are the direct DNA of Mark – its so eeerie
when you think about Mark Hollis classic quote about the space between the music
“Before you play two notes, learn how to play one note, y’know? And don’t play one note unless you’ve got a reason to play it.” ~ Mark Hollis
and his last leaving remark to a jornalist from the Wire “I think im done ” it had this eerie relevance to my life- ( working in an office with all the crap that goes with it ) and knowing when i’m done and needing and appreciating the space and beauty of the landscape around us and feeling restless ( Mickey and I constantly dreaming and talking hippy bollox about plateus of sound and being lost in nature and the strange pagan heritage and legends of dorset – see Gerald Gardner /
Harry Paye and having moving experiences in this landscape – this is what Held By Trees is all about and it turns out David is from our beloved Dorset and this music was born out of a moment when the world stopped ( COV19)
In short I have a a bewildering urge to make this band heard by whatever means necessary.. It feels so odd to meet David but good odd …I wish I had dug deeper into them and reached out to learn a bit more about them.but TIme is just time right …Its opening up a world of Music to me that ive never had time to dive into Swans / Bark Pyschosis for example and David has a lot of plans and exciting projects coming up
to get a bit personal ive been Struggling with mental health and depression and Talk Talk have meant so much to me and I feel really and blessed to have met David and learnt about his mission to continue the legacy – I’m struggling to convey this but In short if you like Mark Hollis / Rustin man / Ambient / Pink Floyd or just in short MUSIC . please devour and buy everything Held By Tress have made .. enough of my waffle !
PS I had to run to a job interview and what Lennon said “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans”
but I hope David you read this and we work together. Whatever happens, signed Robin Fan for life and I hope Mickey becomes your dear friend and colaborator too xxxx
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