Nov 30, 2016 | Bands, Public Gigs, The Missing Persians
Just finished a nice little tour with The Missing Persians, the bluesy americana type band I play with. We first toured the Netherlands in 2015 after a Dutch musician/promoter saw us playing at an Oxfordshire festival (one of our first gigs) and we had a great...
Dec 10, 2015 | Bands, Hints and tips, Recording, Studio, The Missing Persians
I started writing this post when we’d booked some time together to begin recording the Missing Persians second album – I then saved the draft. I’m typing the text you’re reading now when we’re about halfway through the recording process....
Jan 8, 2015 | Bands, Joe Carey Quartet (funky jazz), Public Gigs, The Missing Persians
Had a lot of private function work over the last month or so (lots of Christmas parties and works “do”s as you’d expect for the time of year) and not many gigs which are open to the public this month, but there are a couple of public gigs in January...
Jul 21, 2014 | Bands, Hints and tips, Recording, Studio, The Missing Persians
After about a year of rehearsing and gigging, The Missing Persians decided to record their first album. It was released (or as our singer/songwriter Chris likes to say “escaped”) on Saturday 19th July 2014 at our Thamesfest performance – you can also...
Mar 2, 2014 | Bands, Recording, The Missing Persians
Over the last few weeks we’ve been recording songs which we hope will become our first album. JJ (our friendly PA man) has proved himself to be one of the most generous men in the world by letting us set up base in his house to record. This has meant drums in...
Dec 13, 2013 | Bands, Hints and tips, Public Gigs, The Missing Persians
One of the joys of working with The Missing Persians is that I get to do a lot more singing in the band than others where I just concentrate on playing the bass guitar. I’ve always been willing to step up to the mic for a bit of backing vocals (I tend to default...
