TFDI...

"Totally ****ing doing it....urgh urgh...totally ****ing doing..."

The immortal and now famous words of one great Jay Nash on the commencement of the Evening of the Feeling Song tour (see video below) featuring Matt Duke and Tony Lucca back in late August. The expression became shortened to TFDI and the tour spanning some 20 days as good as got renamed.



Whilst on the road, these 3 amazingly talented singer/songwriters were invited into studio in Illinois to spend the day recording a number of tracks...fast forward 2 months and released just 2 days ago in iTunes across the world...TFDI - The EP.



So it's an EP of 4 tracks, one by each artist (Slow It Down - Jay Nash, Sex and Reruns - Matt Duke and Pretty Things - Tony Lucca) and a cover of The Weight originally by late 60's - 70's (and then 80's to 90's) The Band.

Each song uniquely showcases the vocal talents of Matt, Tony and Jay but more than that it shows that when you place together three outstanding artists, their musical qualities are taken to a completely new level and the cover of The Weight is simply beautiful.


The EP debuted at #1 on the Singer/Songwriter chart on iTunes and currently sits at #3 which is a testimony both to the quality of the music but also that these three artists have managed to fuse together their talents and fanbases to form something of sizeable note and acclaim.

At $4, €4 or £3, you just can't afford to miss out on this. Go buy it now, you need to TFDI!

A new and impressive experience...internet radio...

Another day, another set of thoughts for you, this time about a new experience I had last night which was surprisingly awesome and really enjoyable.

So I was sitting at home last night and checked out Twitter and saw that the amazing Jay Nash was appearing on a radio show on NEWMUSICINFERNO, courtesy of a link. I wasn't sure what it was but it turns out it was an internet based radio channel at blogtalkradio.com.

I was curious as to what it was and how it worked so I signed up, promptly forgot my username and password within seconds and when I finally got in, was still none the wiser as to what I needed to do. So I sat and waited and then on the stroke of midnight (UK time), the browser refreshed and the show started, a chatroom loaded and in my ears was the voice of John Rankin, I guess you'd describe him as an amateur radio host (meant in the nicest sense) hailing out of the USA. After a few technical issues he was under way and the two hours flew by, it was quite surreal. Within 10 minutes I found myself emailing John a couple of Jay Nash tracks as he'd had problems getting hold of the ones he'd been sent previously and putting out a recommendation for the listeners to check out Greg Holden just because I'm cheeky like that and like sharing the love of good music.

Halfway through the show, Jay, Tony Lucca, Matt Duke and Roy Jay appeared and chatted for an hour or so. It was very light hearted and extremely funny and the guys seemed to be very at ease just chatting away and having fun and well, you can hear the whole show and decide for yourself by clicking here.

Afterwards I chatted briefly to John before I crashed (it was 2am) and he confirmed he had over 27,000 listeners tuning in regularly. I was absolutely stunned, I genuinely had no idea how popular something like this could be it was quite mindblowing really. John appears to have a love of music and is I guess evangelising about music in the same way as I hopefully am...only in a very different media.

It got me thinking about expanding my means of talking about music...then I had a reality check and thought...."hmmm not sure I could do that regularly for 2 hours, nor have I necessarily got a voice for radio"...so I'll opt to blogging, twittering and youtubing for the time being. I'll also be checking in again to listen to John's show despite the early morning finishes in the hope and expectation of finding some more music I can enjoy.

By the way, the above was not planned for tonight's blog, I had something else in mind but this took priority just because I was that impressed last night with the whole thing.

Bye for now xx

TFDI on the recommendations...

As I hadn't blogged for a couple of days I thought I'd pop on over and post a musical and visual recommendation...both of which are brilliantly interlinked and then to finish off a really nice little story.

One of my favourite musicians Jay Nash is currently touring the US with Tony Lucca and Matt Duke as part of the "Evening of the Feeling" tour...which Jay has renamed the TFDI tour...the acronym TFDI will catch on in a big, big way.

They're posting video diaries which are extremely funny and you can see the first one here (which will explain what TFDI stands for), I think they've posted 5 or 6 as of now, you'll be greatly amused even if you don't know the artists that well or at all.

I'd not heard of the two guys Jay is touring with but Tony Lucca and Matt Duke are both incredible talents and I'm very much liking both of their sounds. I have a feeling iTunes might soon get another beat down. You should go and check out their myspace pages.

Now for that nice little story...

When I started blogging, I had this intention of spreading the word of good music round the world, recording my random thoughts in the hope someone might find it, read it and hopefully it would serve as a medium for helping some amazing artists get a bit of free publicity, selling some more albums and helping them fulfil their dreams.

Yesterday I received a really nice email out of the blue from an artist I saw play about a month ago who'd been sent a link to my review of the gig by a friend that'd come across it by searching Google...on reflection that's perhaps poor English but you get the jist...

I must confess I was quite taken aback. I never factored in "the artist" into this whole blogging vision per se but, it just goes to show that the internet has made the world an ever shrinking place and that's really truly amazing.

So for the benefit of those of you who have only recently come across my ramblings and missed some of my older posts, I am going to give this particular artist another mention, right now, just because I can... Her name is Thea Ford and you should all go and check out her myspace page. Thea has some gigs coming up in London on the following dates, get out and support her:-

Tuesday 22nd September - The Road Trip, Shoreditch
Tuesday 6th October - The Road Trip, Shoreditch
Wednesday 21st October - Belushi's, Covent Garden

Enjoy :-)

Peace xx