Exactly one month until this! Raising money for Crisis with Nick Tann, Jonas and Jane & Fifth Floor!
'Free Falling' is going to be 'Track of the Day' again today for BBC Introducing The South on Drive Time at 4.40pm!
BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey and DAB
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'The Dream Team', Anna (BASCA), me, Dan Moore (BASCA), Claire (MPA) and James Dean (Principal Lecturer & Study Lead).
A few weeks ago I was asked to talk about my career as a professional composer and musician on behalf of BASCA for one of their 'Academic Supporter Programmes' at Canterbury Christ Church University.
The day was very inspiring, with some amazing, talented and engaging students all working hard to carve their own path and identity in music (honestly, couldn't fault the demos on our 'demo panel, see photo below!). The facilities were rather fabulous too (I am completely jealous, and would happily spend a fair few hours in those studios!).
I'd like to say a belated thank you to Canterbury Christ Church University for hosting myself, the Music Publishers Association (MPA) and BASCA for their special 'BASCA day'. You made us feel very welcome! Such a lovely environment for nurturing creative talent.
Anna
On the demo panel!
A huge thank you to Croydon Radio who have the playlisted 'Free Falling'! It's been 'hand picked' from the 'WeLoveNewMusic' selection and will be played 2/3 times a day for next month, and on some of the individual shows!
Im so chuffed with all the radio play 'Free Falling' is receiving so far! Makes for one very happy bunny!
Anna x
You can now pre-order the new EP 'Free Falling' on Bandcamp here and get the title track before it's officially released! :
https://annaneale.bandcamp.com/album/free-falling-ep
iTunes pre ordering will go live from Friday 4th March.
A big thank you to everyone at the various BBC local radio stations and eagle3 for playing the title track 'Free Falling' from the EP so far! Feeling the love! :)
'Free Falling' has been chosen by BBC Introducing The South as their 'Track of the Day' this Monday 8th February! You'll be able to hear it on Drivetime on BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey at 4:40pm!
You see that? That's a empty desktop, and it means that the Free Falling EP is complete! Well, almost. On Wednesday all my Kickstarter backers received their digital copies of the EP, followed by bonus tracks, pre production and so those that ordered it, their tailor made individual songs. The feedback so fr has been amazing, thank you all so much! I'm so glad you're all enjoying it. :)
Now all the music's sorted te next job is to sort the artwork and press release, and start getting it out to radio! No rest for the wicked eh?
Anna
I'll be launching the new EP, 'Free Falling', here at this special one off acoustic night I'm organising in conjunction with The Phoenix Cultural Centre at the beautiful St. Peter's Church in Old Woking on the 16th April.
Alongside myself, local duo Jonas and Jane, who have recently been on Radio 2's Chris Evans breakfast show, the illustrious singer/songwriter Nick Tann and Swedish duo Fifth Floor will be performing. I'm really excited about this show, the church is 900 years and is absolutely stunning. We're so lucky to be able to play here!
The proceeds from the night will go towards maintaining the church and the homeless charity, 'Crisis'. All the artists performing, and the people helping, are giving up their time for free to help support our chosen charity, so please do come along and see these phenomenal acts. It'll be a once in a lifetime gig.
Tickets can be bought in advance here: https://www.musicglue.com/anna-neale/events/16-apr-16-candlelit-acoustic-night--st-peters-church-st-peters-church/ and on the door.
As some of you may know one of the many collaborations and co-writes I did last year was a Drum and Bass track with a UK based producer (I'm nothing if not versitile!!) which is now online and can be previewed here!
https://soundcloud.com/francisnikolas/preview-francis-nikolas-shackles-feat-anna-neale
It's had nearly 4000 plays in 4 days in Sound Cloud which is not bad!
Release date has been set for February and I've been told there will be a few re-mixes floating around aswell. Slowly breaking down barriers in other forms of music! Hope you enjoy!
Anna X
With Andy Parsons.....who I failed to recognise despite watching 'Mock of the Week'......sigh.....
On Tuesday I was invited by the Musician's Union to attend the Performers Alliance APPG Christmas party at the House of Commons.
It was a joint event hosted by Kerry McCarthy MP, The Musician's Union, Equity and The Writers Guild to support the arts and generally catch up on how things are in our separate industries.
Our job there was threefold: 1) to help raise awareness of grass roots music venues, which have suffered horrendously this year from various closures across the country, 2) to raise awareness of the need for music education and how access to all is vitally important for our children, and 3) to protect the BBC which is under going a charter review.
The event went well, and I had a chance to chat to various MP's and members of the House of Lords about some of these issues and other aspects of my career. I hope they took some of our 'hands on' experience on board......you never know with these things!
On a lighter note it was also a chance to meet some very interesting people from other aspects of the arts.
Including some very well known faces such as Stephen Tomkinson (in the photo below, so tall, so handsome....yes yes, one of my teenage crushes......I confess.....), Andy Parsons (in the photo above, I didn't recognise him and went in with the cool line 'have I worked with you'? *face palm*) and Lindsey Coulson (aka Carol Jackson from Eastenders) who I managed to not embarrass myself in front of and have a fairly rational conversation about Sappho with.
All in all a good night, some interesting conversations and great wine.......
Anna
With Stephen Tomkinson.....and a spring roll.....I know, classy......