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Album Studio Blog 2010 Week 26

Week 26 of "Hot Wire" Album (31/08/10) - Sorry I'm a day late with the blog. Just got back from Barcelona late last nite. Anyway, last week I continued video editing. As you know we film every gig we do now with 4 cameras ... 3…

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Added by Greg on August 31, 2010 at 14:00 — 8 Comments

Album Studio Blog 2010 Week 25

Week 25 of "Hot Wire" Album (23/08/10) - Sorry there was no Album Studio Blog last week ... I've officially downed tools on our new album "Hot Wire" ... I've just burnt out on it :( ... need time away from it. So I'm now 100% fully concentrating on completing the…

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Added by Greg on August 23, 2010 at 10:30 — 7 Comments

Album Studio Blog 2010 Week 24

Week 24 of "Hot Wire" Album (09/08/10) - I got my Mac G5 computer fixed :) ... it was the power supply that was faulty after all. I found an Apple repair guy called…

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Added by Greg on August 9, 2010 at 15:00 — No Comments

Album Studio Blog 2010 Week 23

Week 23 of "Hot Wire" Album (02/08/10) - Not a good week. Managed to finish compiling just one more drum take for the song "Summer Head Daze" due to the fact that my trusted Mac G5 computer "died" on Thursday. 6 years of faithful service, many…

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Added by Greg on August 2, 2010 at 14:30 — 3 Comments

Album Studio Blog 2010 Week 22

Week 22 of "Hot Wire" Album (26/07/10) - Still going thru the drum session takes ... got 7 done now. Slow progress I know, but I need to get the foundations right, then hopefully everything else will be plain sailing ! :)

... Had to sit down and really…

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Added by Greg on July 26, 2010 at 17:00 — 16 Comments

Single Promo Videos

Hello All

After all the superb Television appearances of Hue And Cry that have been put on YouTube recently

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I am longing for the original promo videos of all the Hue & Cry singles. The first two albums are fairly readily available but from "Stars Crash Down" onwards I have only seen bits of the actual promo videos. I used to have the promo videos [1 track] of "My Salt… Continue

Added by William Jones on July 21, 2010 at 21:59 — 7 Comments

Album Studio Blog 2010 - Week 21

Week 21 of "Hot Wire" Album (19/07/10) - Spent the week going thru Paul Mills' drum takes for the album. I've got 5 songs done ... 7 more to go !

... Paul played each song 5 times ... that's 60 takes in total! ... I like to listen to everything he played, pick the best bits and…

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Added by Greg on July 19, 2010 at 15:00 — 3 Comments

Album Studio Blog 2010 - Week 20

Week 20 of "Hot Wire" Album (12/07/10) - Home from a very relaxing 9 day break in Los Cristianos, Tenerife at the beautiful Paradise Park Hotel

One of the highlights of…

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Added by Greg on July 12, 2010 at 14:00 — 13 Comments

Album Studio Blog 2010 - Week 19

Week 19 of "Hot Wire" Album (28/06/10) - I was a bit down after last week's meeting about the delay on the completion of "Hot Wire" ... but I picked myself up and started work again. Finished compiling the drum takes for the song "Tell Me" ... a gr8 groove from Mr. Mills :) ... It took me 3 days to do ... one of those difficult to nail funk triplet grooves ... I…

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Added by Greg on June 28, 2010 at 1:00 — 7 Comments

Album Studio Blog 2010 - Week 18

Week 18 of "Hot Wire" Album (21/06/10) - An eventful week! ... Firstly, I'm moving each weekly blog to their own post on the Blog tab rather than continuing the stream on the one post ... should be neater ... My very house proud partner ordered the redecoration of our flat after seeing the video footage from the recording sessions on some of the…

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Added by Greg on June 21, 2010 at 14:30 — 12 Comments

Hue And Cry Album Studio Blog 2010

Hi folks

Greg here! This is the Hue And Cry Album Studio Blog 2010 - I'm doing a rough'n'ready weekly diary below, in the comments space. The most recent ones are at the top - read down for the history so far! [And Pat might be inserting the occasional comment or video too!]

It's getting funky in… Continue

Added by Greg on February 15, 2010 at 22:00 — 158 Comments

Music Club & gender

So... having a brief scan of members, there seems to be a dominance of men as members. But you wouldn't get that from either the number of men/women at concerts or the number of women in pix on this site. Does this mean that the Music Club appeals more to men than women? Or is this because less women are online?

Just food for thought...

AC

Added by Ariana Ciddens on January 23, 2010 at 23:51 — 6 Comments

The perfect Christmas .....

Just wanted to say thanks to Pat and Greg for a fantastic weekend!

Both gigs were amazing and it was good to hear a mix of new and old across both sets. Really enjoyed Saturday - the champagne, the soundcheck, the meet and greet, the buffet and then the gig ... it was so well organised and I know everyone appreciated how much effort had gone into making everything run so smoothly.

It truly was a great weekend, well worth battling snow and motorways from Newcastle for.… Continue

Added by Jane Hedley on December 20, 2009 at 22:43 — 2 Comments

"Jute Mill Song (They Fairly Mak Ye Work)" - 'Piano & Voice' classic now on wall of Scottish Parliament!

Small moment of deep Scottish connection here, that has to be noted...

Greg and I once did a version of a song called The Jute Mill Song (They Fairly Mak' Ye Work), which we always thought that Micheal Marra (the great composer of Mother Glasgow) had written - he was the guy we heard performing it first.

But it turns out it was written by Mary Brooksbank, a Scottish communist-feminist - and… Continue

Added by Hue And Cry on December 16, 2009 at 17:30 — 4 Comments

Xmas Day

Just received my xmas day box which has managed to get to wing its way to Western Australia. Its a really special thing indeed. Its a pity that not many more musicians do things like this for their fans.
I was playing the music the other day on our company christmas do and the track "Someday at Christmas" went down a storm, it was funny watching 20 yr old aussies singing Hue and cry's version
Anyway thanks
merry christmas
David

Added by David on December 15, 2009 at 11:32 — 1 Comment

Hue and Cry covered?

I'm not sure if this one has been done already, but does anyone know of other artists covering Hue & Cry songs?

I've found a few on Spotify, please add to this list if you can:

Nate James - Labour of Love
Barry Hay - Labour of Love (swing-tastic!!)
Joey Negro - Labour of Love
Joe's 90s - Violently

Added by Alan on December 6, 2009 at 11:18 — 2 Comments

T'was a Very Good Year...

I think I found this site about a year ago, now and I recently found myself having a wee delve into old blogs and posts and photies.

Without getting TOO gushy, (am prone to the odd gush! ) what a fab year it's been!

We've been spoiled rotten with freebies and tours and insights into the behind the scenes ..and of course there's so much more still to come!

My own highlights have been the Feb 21st ABC gig ( the beginning of some beautiful friendships!!) and seeing the guys perform… Continue

Added by CatB on August 18, 2009 at 12:14 — 13 Comments

From Aberdeen's Evening Express - Monday 25th May 2009

Neil Evans

Saw Hue and Cry at the Lemon Tree, Aberdeen

Hue and Cry were big in the 1980s but they are not ones to let nostalgia get the better of them.

The two brothers played a stripped down gig with Pat Kane's smooth, soulful vocals and Greg on piano.

It gave the night an intimate feel as they played old songs, and tracks of the new album.

And, fresh from an appearance at a Burns' Festival in Ayr, they played two traditional songs by the Bard,… Continue

Added by Alison MacAulay on May 25, 2009 at 18:57 — 1 Comment

I have opened the blog of Hue and Cry! in Japan!

Hello All,

I am Akira, a Japanese crazy fun of Hue and Cry!
I have opened the blog in Japnanese about Hue and Cry.

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/hue_and_cry

Sorry in Japanese.

Added by Akira on April 26, 2009 at 12:00 — 1 Comment

Friday Night Chat - damn'd technologie!

Hi all

UPDATE (Sat, Apr 14): Sorry about tech glitches everyone - it worked pretty well the last time on Ning, so we're going to inquire of them what the problem was. I think all your enthusiasm overloaded their system! Hopefully fixed for next week, when Greg will take on the conversation.

best, pat

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We're trying a bit of an experiment for a few weeks, maybe longer... the Ning platform that the Music Club is based on allows us to have a… Continue

Added by Hue And Cry on April 17, 2009 at 16:30 — 47 Comments