Thanks for the review Planet Mellotron 3 Bucket Jones review on Planet Mellotron

Thanks for the review Planet Mellotron 3 Bucket Jones review on Planet Mellotron

Just want to thank all the people who helped make the tour so special. Bruce Knapp of course on guitar, mandolin and dobro!!! To many people to thank but we can start with, the sound engineers, Fester Duncan and the venue people, Ali Orbaum, Wendy Sergeant , Val Regan and Kirsty Martin for saying yes – rallying singers to come and join us – Thank you to Fiona, Stacey, Caroline, Angie, Maureen in Sheffield, Dave Julia, Tom, Fran, Wendy Liz and Sian Jane Pearl, and Reuben Tourettes for supporting so beautifully in Monmouth and Lesley for singing. The Bishopsgate Singers and Tubthumping Chorus and Gregory in London. The Sing for Water Scratch choir, Roaring Troman and Barley Rye Choir ( plus mum) in Bristol. Hullabaloo, Kate Su and Em in Brighton. Sean, Brendan, Allyn, Kerry and Matt from the Tredegar Town band for gigs in Monmouth and Bristol. Matt for helping Paul with Sound in Monmouth at the last minute and Bob Karper for filming in London Bristol and Monmouth. Sheena for squeezebox in London. Shula and Elizabeth for camera holding. Siggy for helping with merchandise and travelling games in the car in the middle of the night. Everyone who came to watch and listen. All forgotten people will be added as the brain comes back after more sleep….











Celebrating william shakespeare, roy orbison, gitika’s birthday with a new video which gitika edited and we shot on a lovely day yup a hill in shropshire for a giggle….goes well with the song which will be on our new album TAKE THESE GHOSTS on 8th July
The first video is done! Track from album number two which will be out as soon as we have wrestled over the order.
We had a good radio week for an broken-band ( !) band . ON Sunday night on Severn FM we heard Dave Gilmore ‘In any Tongue’ segueway into the 3 Bucket Jones’ track ‘Gravity ‘ which will be on the impending second album. On Friday night on Croydon Radio we heard a track from 3 Bucket Jones’ first album, ‘Mended’ segueway into Kate Bush’s ‘This Woman’s Work’…A nice link…. three of
us?
Tonight we are on Severn Fm.. On the Mystery Train.vA brilliant show overseen by Alex Huskisson – a track I should say between 10pm and midnight…Never might we be real celebrity like The Count..but just to be brushing shoulders in the super furry highway that is the internet firmament . Who knows. Some of his celebrity may rub off on us.
Have a sneek listen to one of the tracks from the new album starring the Tredegar Town Band
We are on Severn F
M again tonight and C.A.S retweeted one of my tweets.
Here he is in Monnow Valley Recording studio with me – on my t-shirt- the legend that is Count Arthur Strong.
I hear he plays the trombone, so if the Tredegar Town Band need a deputy I shall see if he will oblige. Imagine what that would do for our profile. I wonder if he would be in our next video…I shall ask…Probably will not have time, what with him being such a doyen of light entertainment and all. …if he is to busy I shall ask the lady with the lovely hat.
Hey!
So we went back to Monnow Valey Valley Studios for the last three days of March and wrote and recorded 4 new songs. One is a melancholic lullaby about letting go of a dying parent. The title was inspired by a Peggy Seeger song, Love Call Me Home, at the moment the working title for this song is ‘Love Called You Home’. Would love you to have a listen.

Hi! This is Official Guest Blogger Curtis ElVidge. I’m the assistant engineer at Monnow Valley Studio, the place where 3 Bucket Jones began, and the place they’re at right now, writing and recording. I’m here to give you the lowdown on what Gitika, Andy and Garry are up to.

The band have been in the studio since sunday, composing and recording together all day every day. In the first four days they have written five songs almost entirely from scratch, ranging from unfinished ambient sketches to victorian horror movie themes – all via psychedelic folk of course.
I’ve been impressed by the variety of instruments they’ve taken with them as well – a lot of which fall in the “cruel and unusual” category. We’ve got electronic tampuras, fretted violins and a hurdy-gurdy. Even better is they actually know how to play them. Garry also has an impressive set of software synths and it’s great to see a band so rooted in folk so happy with the electronics.
But that’s far from the only trick Garry has up his sleeves. The guy is also a pretty fearsome chef, with my highlight being the local sausage and parma ham toad-in-the-hole. A fresh twist on an old classic!


Stay tuned tomorrow –
because tomorrow is suit day down at the studio!