12 December 2011

Folk In The Afternoon Photo Gallery

I've still not finished celebrating the end of Folk In The Afternoon yet...
I got photo-happy during the gig and have had to sift through 200-and-something pictures to select a few choice ones. I narrowed it down to 60, but here are my personal favourites.
To see the whole gallery CLICK HERE



My acoustic waiting to be played


Gregg Cave


Aisha Daisy


King's Gambit - Katie Paton, Chris Startup, Helen Turton




11 December 2011

11/12/2011 Living Room Jam Session



End of an era

The final Folk In The Afternoon event at the Nook Cafe was a great success and a fitting end to the series of gigs. I've had a wonderful time hosting them throughout the year and hope to organise something similar in the near future.
Thanks to everyone who's been involved with the gigs or supported us in any way.

An extra special thanks goes out to Tamsyn and all at the Nook for letting us host the show there, and for all the tea :)


Here is a new song I debuted during my set today, 'Less Is More'

7 December 2011

Film Lab Umbrella Fair 2011



The film lab have posted a video compilation of this years Umbrella Fair, Enki appear briefly near the beginning. Was a great festival this year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2nN3KNjyrM

4 December 2011

Folk Finale



Next Saturday (December 10th)!

I will be hosting the final Folk In The Afternoon event at The Nook Arts Cafe.

I've had a wonderful time hosting the series of gigs over the last 6 months and it's a shame it has to come to an end...(Northampton Council are demolishing the Fishmarket Gallery for a bus station leaving us venue-less)

We have a great lineup for the afternoon though, to ensure it'll go out with style!

Performing (confirmed so far) we have:

Jonny Tudor
Gregg Cave
Aisha Daisy
Violet's Gone
Kings Gambit

Starts at 2, finishes around 5.
Get yerself down there and have some tea, cake and some folk awesomeness.

1 December 2011

Bootlace Bootlegs

So, it's the start of the holiday season...

Jimtom Say has started off December on his website by sharing a couple of lo-fi rehearsal recordings we made back in the summer. Hopefully we'll get back out there and do some more performances, as some of the gigs we had this summer have by far been my favourite musical experiences.

http://www.jimtom.org/poems/2010-2020/jimtom-jenki-gently-bootlace-rehearsal-rough-pt-i

http://www.jimtom.org/poems/2010-2020/jimtom-jenki-gently-bootlace-rough-rehearsal-recording-pt-ii

**Notes on these recordings
I can't be sure exactly when this was recorded, probably around late July 2011, in the upstairs room of the Northampton Labour Club. It was recorded to a c90 cassette that had something on it before, and was recorded via a single stereo mic located on the floor in the back corner of the room, immediately behind Jimtom.

Jimtom Keith Thomas James - Voice, lyrics, bohran
Chris Pepper - Bass guitar
Steve Hunter - Electirc guitar
Mike Goff - Acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Chris 'Steve' Fordham - Drums

19 November 2011

Flow Northamptonshire Arts Project



One of my poems has appeared online for the Flow Northamptonshire arts project. It's going to be printed in an accompanying poster or brochure too.

http://flow-northamptonshire.com/2011/11/10/with-the-flow-poems/

12 November 2011



This afternoon at the Nook Cafe!
I'll be hosting November's edition of Folk In The Afternoon from 2PM

We have performances from:
Rozism
Stevie Jones
The Abrahams

Join Us!
The Nook Cafe inside the Fishmarket art gallery, Bradshaw Street, Northampton

7 November 2011

Pennywhistle

On bonfire night ENKI supported the Billy Shears project at the Pennywhistle in Northampton.










26 October 2011

Revere Reworked EP #3

The third ep in Revere's 'Reworked' series is released today as a free download.
It features my remix of 'As The Radars Sleep' alongside other remixes by members of 65 Days Of Static, Florence And The Machine, and Metronomy.

04 - As The Radars Sleep (The Silent Committee Remix) by Revere

You can download all the EPs and artwork of your choice from Revere's website
http://revereonline.co.uk/reworked

if you want higher quality (WAV, FLAC etc.) files, check out their bandcamp site
http://revere.bandcamp/com

20 October 2011

Inertia

Thanks to whoever shared this Silent Committee track on youtube!
This song is from the 'Seven Deadly Sins: Chapter IV Acedia' Compilation Album.

FREE DOWNLOAD ALBUM here:
http://www.archive.org/details/TheSevenDeadlySinsCompilationAcedia


8 October 2011

I appear in this video (looking very serious/moody/in-full-on-concentrating-mode) along with the rest of Enki and Jimtomsay. Was a great day :)

21 September 2011

Sensipede





Jimtom Say ? / Enki live at the Labour Club 02/09/2011

Jimtom Keith Thomas James - Voice, bohran, lyrics
Mike Goff - Acoustic guitar, percussion, backing vocals
Steve Hunter - Electric guitar, effects, backing vocals
Chris Pepper - Acoustic bass guitar
Thomas Nightingale - Percussion
Chris Fordham - Drums, backing vocals

12 September 2011

May Song

A new and original song from Northamptonshire folk group Kismet Hardy that I recently recorded and mixed. This one's my favourite from the five we did together.

http://www.kismethardy.com/
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001999165141

10 September 2011

Dancing With Epileptic

The new To Bury A Ghost song got its first play on BBC Radio Northampton's Introducing show this evening. It's available as a free download from the soundcloud page for a limited time!

5 September 2011

Jimtom Say @ Northampton Labour Club 02/08/2011

Enki have recently become the live backing band for the spoken word performances of Northampton poet Jimtom Keith Thomas James (jimtom.org).

Photographer Paul Lawrence (Black Tomcat Photography) captured Friday nights gig at the Northampton Labour Club and has a photo gallery over on his website - Im hoping to get the rights to share a few full quality versions here soon.