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A New Acoustic Earth Video

We are very pleased to unveil our new Acoustic Earth video for Amen. Shot on location at the Albert Embankment on the south side of the Thames and in the back of that iconic feature of London life, a black cab, the video features Lorna and actor Andy Coxon braving the elements on a very

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Why Does It Take So Long!

We’re all very excited that a process that started two years ago – how does it take that long! – is now complete and our new music is ready to launch. Pop historians amongst you will know that ten of the fourteen tracks on The Beatles first album, Please Please Me, were recorded in one

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Lorna Wins At The Olivier Awards

Congratulations to Lorna who won an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical for her portrayal of Cynthia Weil in the London West End musical Beautiful. We’re all incredibly proud of Lorna receiving this honour. As we write  songs for our next Acoustic Earth EP, Amen, it’s fascinating to see Lorna

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Thank You

Happy New Year! And a belated thank you to everyone who supported us in 2013. Quite a crazy year all in all: new songs, a fabulous EP Launch Gig at The Forge in London, a new band member, Rory, and the concerto for Acoustic Earth and orchestra, Slow Motion Sleeper – a busy year! 2014

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Slow Motion Sleeper

Slow Motion Sleeper was amazing! Thank you to everyone who came down to St.Anne’s on a hot and busy Friday evening to support us. Also a huge thank you to the wonderful Docklands Sinfonia who rocked out with Acoustic Earth. We’ll have some video highlights from the gig on here soon. Can’t wait to do

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Video Shoot

I’ve just seen the final cut of TWO new Acoustic Earth videos! Can’t give you any sneaky peeks yet as they’ll be released late August in the run up to the EP release in September but one especially, Head Over Heels, I think you’re going to enjoy. In fact, I can’t wait to share it!

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Very exciting Acoustic Earth gig news!

Myself, Andy and James will be featured soloists in a new work of mine for orchestra and Acoustic Earth called Slow Motion Sleeper. It will be premiered with the Docklands Sinfonia at St Anne’s Church, Limehouse, London on the 12th July 2013. http://www.docklandssinfonia.co.uk/home The piece is a triple concerto with myself, James and Andy standing

Welcome

Welcome to the new Acoustic Earth website, we’re very excited about it and we hope you like it too. In the coming weeks there will be new Acoustic Earth videos and tracks on here as well as all the latest band news. A huge thank you to Jamie at Creative Digital Design for gently guiding

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A Christmas Present

Ok, so I know the basic idea of Christmas is that you give gifts to other people, but I’m afraid I’ve started off the festive season with a present to myself, a new guitar! The exciting thing about my new toy is that it’s a type of guitar that I’ve never played before but have

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A brilliant gig at Colchester Institute on 8th November with Matt Senior (drums) and Rory McFarlane (acoustic bass) guesting with the band. Matt and Rory did an excellent job, thanks guys! Hopefully Rory, a stalwart of Richard Thompson’s band for many years, will be joining Acoustic Earth regularly for gigs in 2013. When you work