BBC York Interview with Jenny Eells....

// November 27th, 2011 // No Comments » // Blog, General

I was recently lucky enough to be invited to BBC York Introducing towers for an interview with Jenny Eells and to perform a live acoustic track, I chose to play the new single ‘My Heart Is A Fire’ from my upcoming EP. The show was broadcast on Saturday 26th November and you can listen to it below.

As promised on many occasions, I finally delivered a muffin to Jenny!

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Pre-order ‘We All Fall Down’ and receive early download of ‘Give Up The Ghost’....

// October 9th, 2011 // No Comments » // Blog, General

It’s been a busy few months on the music front, but my first proper studio album ‘We All Fall Down‘ is now available to pre-order. If you pre-order the album, you’ll receive an early download of ‘Give Up The Ghost‘!

Visit my online shop to pre-order!

After purchase, you’ll be notified the day of the album release (7th November) and will be sent details on downloading the album. That’s good isn’t it?

For those of you who would prefer to hold an actual copy of the CD in all of its printed poly wrapped glory, I’m setting that up right now with a printing / duplication company and you’ll soon be able to purchase a physical copy. If you like what you hear, pass it on! If not, just think of all of those other uses for the CD… coaster, toast butter spreader, frisbee. You could even sellotape it to other CDs and make a nice little shiny window display – I’ve seen it done!

But enough of all that… go… listen!

Muffin Lover

Jenny Eells @ BBC York & North Yorkshire aired ‘Pretty Little Lying Eyes’....

// August 21st, 2011 // No Comments » // Blog, General

So I woke up this morning to an exciting email letting me know that my song ‘Pretty Little Lying Eyes’ had been played on BBC York & North Yorkshire Introducing. Along with having my already great weekend brightened up by having my track aired once again on radio, it looks like Jenny Eells is indeed a muffin fan. So in response to my previous statement that I would buy anyone who shares details on my single a muffin… I better get baking! OK I can’t bake muffins, they would probably explode in the oven. If I knew where to send them though I’d definitely post a nice selection because I’m a very happy boy.

Here’s the audio

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jp6hh

New Single ‘Pretty Little Lying Eyes’ out now! Get it free....

// July 24th, 2011 // No Comments » // Blog, General, Music

Hello fellow internet dwellers. My new single ‘Pretty Little Lying Eyes’ is out now! After over a year of writing and having just wrapped up recording, I’m extremely excited to finally be able to get some new music out there to whoever has ears that are willing and wanting to listen!

I decided to make the new single available to everyone as a free download to hopefully build up interest for my upcoming album ‘We All Fall Down’. You can get your hands on it here: http://www.weallfalldown.co.uk/

If you like what you hear, please pass it on and share it with your friends! Who knows, I might even buy you a muffin in return!… you don’t like muffins? Are you mad?

Stay tuned for more details on my upcoming album and random thoughts, or like my page on Facebook. I won’t spam you, promise!

Feeling a bit bloggish....

// May 18th, 2011 // No Comments » // Blog, General

Howdy. I’m in the mood for blogging… actually it’s mostly because I’m waiting for a new video to upload to Facebook and I can sometimes be impatient Anyway, the video I’m uploading is an old / newish song that I recorded earlier this evening called “Black & Blue” and it will be on my new upcoming album “We All Fall Down”.

I say old / newish because I did something a little different with this song. Most of it had been written around the same time as ‘White Noise’, but the song didn’t get included in the album because I just couldn’t finish writing it; I just hit a big pesky old wall with it. But I occasionally return to unfinished material, and that’s what I did with this one! but instead of trying to return to the mindset I was in to complete it (almost impossible), I decided to try and add some light to it by writing an ending point with elements of hope and metaphorical treacle which I sometimes like to do to mask my meanings. Is it naughty to make you figure them out? That’s not important, as I mentioned in a previous post, finding your own meaning is what’s important.

The lyrics to this song were probably the most difficult I’ve written, ever. Both in how personal it turned out to be and the length of time it took to finally bring it to an end. I’m quite proud of it and thought I’d share them, video after the lyrics

P.S; If you’re not already a fan of my Facebook page, pretty please check me out at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adam-Astbury/37215675248 and become a fan.

Black & Blue by Adam Astbury

You’ve changed so much, can’t love, can’t trust
But we’re both the same
Shut down, in despair. Rebuild, repair
As we both change lanes

My hand, in your hand, bare foot, in the sand
Where we carved our names
A house on the hill, broken window-sill
Where we watched the world go by

These dreams were made for two
I woke up, broken, black and blue

Fall into me, put back the pieces that you stole from me
You hold up your hands, “I’m sorry can we start again?”
“I can change, yes I’ll change, we can go back to how we were”
I’ll say no, I’ll say no, but this is how it feels to hurt
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but this is how I feel inside

Shiver, in the cold
A secret’s been told and the world comes down
Warm breath on the glass
Tracing lines with your hands
Of the path I made, to you

These dreams were made for two
I woke up, broken, black and blue

Fall into me, put back the pieces that you stole from me
You hold up your hands, “I’m sorry can we start again?”
“I can change, yes I’ll change, we can go back to how we were”
I’ll say no, I’ll say no, because I stopped running months ago.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but this is how I feel inside

I can finally sleep tonight
Because I’ve found someone that made me believe
Although I know, she’s not mine to have
I’ll take the light that she shines on me

Those golden rays, lighten up my days
With a message of what’s yet to come
A candle burns from green to red
It’s not ideal but I’ll rest my head

Fall into me
I needed time but now I’m free
Hold up your hands
Say you’ll take me as I am

Pretty Little Lying Eyes....

// May 12th, 2011 // No Comments » // Blog, General

Hello again, I wanted to announce that the first single from my upcoming album ‘We All Fall Down’, will be ‘Pretty Little Lying Eyes’ and it will be released free of charge in June (exact date TBC). My decision to release the single for free, is that I want people to get a big taste of the rest of the album and hopefully get the songs into the hands of more listeners.

I chose ‘Pretty Little Lying Eyes’ as the first single, because I think it represents the rest of the album the most, and it is also the main foundation for the rest of the songs on the album.

The main story behind ‘Pretty Little Lying Eyes’, is a situation where you feel you’re being messed around by other people, and then finally standing up for yourself and fighting back after being under the thumb a little too long. I wanted to explain the idea behind this a little more…

When I write songs, most of the time it is to resolve my own issues. I can be so self-critical with every aspect of my own life, that it’s not until I see my thoughts written, that I realise I already knew the answer to whatever problem I was having all along, and that if I trusted in myself more often, instead of letting my life be led by the views of other people and allowing others to make my decisions for me – I’d have a much better understanding of what I want out of life, and would probably become a better person as a result.

With the risk of sounding like a preacher, my belief, and underlying message in most of my songs (from my point of view) is that we should all trust in ourselves a lot more. We all have some sort of goal in life, and no matter how big that goal may be, no one is in any sort of position to tell you what you can or can’t achieve.

With the above in mind, I have come to the conclusion that the biggest message I want to convey with my new album, is that there is no ONE message. The message is whatever you interpret it to be… Sure, I can tell you what the songs mean to me, but who am I to say what any one else should expect to get from it? We all have our own views, therefore we all interpret things in our own way.

So, what do you want from life? Do things your way… if you want something – go for it!

Adam x

p.s; you’ll be able to download the new single ‘Pretty Little Lying Eyes’ for free when it is released at www.weallfalldown.co.uk.