Tag: hangouts

Upcoming Hangouts


I’m playing as part of two different live music Hangouts in the next few days. Later tonight / early tomorrow morning, I’m doing a few songs as part of the Musicians and Bands Public Database MBPD Open Mic HOA #5. There’s 8 different acts playing this particular event, so it’ll be quite like a regular open mic session in that way. Just they’ll be playing from their homes.

Then this Saturday, I’m doing another Hangout, this time organised by Artists In The Plus, and at a much more European friendly time “Concerts In The Plus!” TerryLynn Melody, Mister Ebby, Suzen Juel. The event should show up in the time appropriate for you timezone over on the Google+ event page, which is very handy. There’s only three acts playing this event, so it’s a bit more of a showcase than just an open mic.

So, if you’re near a computer, or can use hangouts on your phone or tablet, come along to one of those events over on Google+ and basically get treated to me playing you music right from the piano I write most of my material on. I’ll have the set up rather like how it was for the Imogen Heap hangout I played at, but this time hopefully the sound niggles will be sorted out before going live!

Then to round things off, I’m thinking of doing a third final hangout, with just me, on the Tuesday evening, which would be even more of me in one hangout, so let me know if you’d be interested in coming along and chatting in between songs.

Hangouts are awesome.

So, I just got to do a piano hangout with Imogen Heap and a bunch of other piano players from around the world. I saw a tweet from @imogenheap about it, and filled in the wee application form. I’ve done a few little hangouts of my own and was just this week putting my setup back together to do a few more, so it was providence!

Imogen Heap hangout!

It was lovely to be brought into the hangout and to get to jam with Imogen Heap and the other pianists. Latency issues and sound issues were definitely a feature of the experience, but that’s the fun of live internet stuff. ;)

My favourite bit was every pianist doing a little solo improv while Imogen vocalised over it. That was magic to get to do, and a little bit nervewracking. However, it’s kinda nice that you just see the bunch of people in the hangout, and not everyone who was watching from home somewhere, as that might have been a bit more nervy.

In a random aside: somehow Imogen started to try and set me up on dates after someone on twitter (?) said I was cute. That was unexpected and I totally got flustered and embarrassed. I’m totally very cool. Honest.

If you’re stumbling across my various accounts now after the hangout, you can see some videos on my youtube channel, and listening to recordings on my bandcamp or soundcloud pages, and find out more info about the recording of my debut album here on this website too. There are some piano instrumentals to listen to on Soundcloud too, and one is a bonus download if you buy my album through the bandcamp page.