What to do about Album Number 3?
I am a control freak, a perfectionist, and a lone wolf. The idea of working with other people generally fills me with dread and mostly when I take the chance, I end up disappointed or trapped in...
View ArticleRecording Session 1: February 2013
So that was it. Thunderbirds are go. I drove down to Suffolk for the first booked session with my Yamaha AW16G in tow, loaded with ten million recordings of my new songs; some finished, some half-...
View ArticleRecording Session 2: April 2013
My first session with Dave was at his small studio, but he'd since moved premises, so we were now at The Recording Booth in Earl Soham. It was ripe for holding more people, so more people we did...
View ArticleRecording Session 3: April/May 2013
Session Three was actually two or three spread-out sessions that I'm bracketing together for ease of remembering! They included guests galore, with the arrival of Jonathan the cellist. He'd been...
View ArticleRecording Session 4: May 2013
The first day of the most recent session was spent working on the eighth song, and title track, Amoeba and Stone. It was brand new to Dave as I'd only recently finished it and it was the first time...
View ArticleRecording Session 6: July 2013
July brought a heatwave and a very warm studio. Luckily I'd recorded my vocals, backing vocals and lead acoustic guitar part for Wish I Believed at my home studio and sent them to Dave in advance as I...
View ArticleRecording Session 5: June 2013
June was a crazy, crazy month for me: a month of far too much work and no time to eat or sleep, so trying to find any more time to record in Suffolk was almost impossible.However, I received word that...
View ArticleMixing Session: 4th August 2013:
It took a mammoth 12 hour mixing session with producer Dave on a hot August Sunday, but... THE ALBUM IS FINISHED! It was a very emotional day indeed, listening back to the final ten new songs that we...
View ArticleThe album promo begins!
September and October saw the start of the album promotion in the regional media. It may only happen once in my lifetime, but here is my first ever front cover feature in The Journal, with pictures by...
View ArticleAlbum Launch Success!
The first Lincolnshire Launch was held at the Guildhall Arts Centre, and it was an amazing night! SUCH a wonderful audience who graciously got involved in my little stories behind the songs and made a...
View ArticleThe album is out (but only available from here!)
The album is currently only available from abimoore.com as it won't get its international release via the usual channels until 2014. You can have a listen to it first HERE at Bandcamp and download it...
View ArticleLive session at BBC Suffolk this week
I met Stephen Foster last week who interviewed me about the new album, tour and the Suffolk show which I'm pleased to say has sold out! I dragged my sidekick David Booth along with me and here we are...
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