New album and latest gig dates
My first solo album, Nursery Rhymes for the Apocalypse, was released on 31 October 2017 - Halloween, fittingly enough. It contains 12 dark tales (plus two interludes) of murder, wolves, crows, plague, ghost ships and er, robins. And of course, the end of the world. Most of the songs are original, though some are traditional, or traditional adaptations.
Get your soundtrack to the apocalypse from Bandcamp, where you can also listen to the tracks before you purchase. Physical CDs will be made available, also through the bandcamp site very shortly - or you could stop me at a gig and buy one...
Get your soundtrack to the apocalypse from Bandcamp, where you can also listen to the tracks before you purchase. Physical CDs will be made available, also through the bandcamp site very shortly - or you could stop me at a gig and buy one...
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I am now officially a solo artist (some may say I am some other kind of artist, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion).
That's right, my first solo choon was debuted on the re-launched #GASP radio show on 1 October 2016, and is now available for free download via my new LM Cooke Bandcamp page. That's right, free! (Please note that Bandcamp doesn't actually let me stipulate a price of zero for the download, you have to enter your own amount. So set it to zero! And it only allows me 200 free downloads per month, so in the unlikely event that more than 200 people download it in October, and it tries to charge you more than zero, just wait til next month when it resets to 200 free downloads once more.
The Choon in question is called Poor Jenny. This actually isn't a new song - I originally wrote it for a former band, Broadarrow Jack, and we performed it with harp, viola, bass guitar, bodhran, and for the first time ever, me on vocals. In fact, it was performer only once, in the final year of Broadarrow Jack's existence at a 'Titanic' themed party. It went down well (ahem).
Poor Jenny is the tale of the legendary ship, the Jenny, an English schooner that was lost in the Drake Passage near the Antarctic in 1823. Story has it that a whaling ship, the Hope, came across the Jenny some 17 years later, her crew dead aboard her, preserved in the ice that had claimed her. But the Jenny disappeared back into the freezing water before the Hope could slavage her...
The legend of the Jenny has never been substantiated, but the idea of the eerie ice ship made a nice idea for a song, now rewritten for new instruments. Have a listen via the (scarily ginormous) soundcloud player below:
That's right, my first solo choon was debuted on the re-launched #GASP radio show on 1 October 2016, and is now available for free download via my new LM Cooke Bandcamp page. That's right, free! (Please note that Bandcamp doesn't actually let me stipulate a price of zero for the download, you have to enter your own amount. So set it to zero! And it only allows me 200 free downloads per month, so in the unlikely event that more than 200 people download it in October, and it tries to charge you more than zero, just wait til next month when it resets to 200 free downloads once more.
The Choon in question is called Poor Jenny. This actually isn't a new song - I originally wrote it for a former band, Broadarrow Jack, and we performed it with harp, viola, bass guitar, bodhran, and for the first time ever, me on vocals. In fact, it was performer only once, in the final year of Broadarrow Jack's existence at a 'Titanic' themed party. It went down well (ahem).
Poor Jenny is the tale of the legendary ship, the Jenny, an English schooner that was lost in the Drake Passage near the Antarctic in 1823. Story has it that a whaling ship, the Hope, came across the Jenny some 17 years later, her crew dead aboard her, preserved in the ice that had claimed her. But the Jenny disappeared back into the freezing water before the Hope could slavage her...
The legend of the Jenny has never been substantiated, but the idea of the eerie ice ship made a nice idea for a song, now rewritten for new instruments. Have a listen via the (scarily ginormous) soundcloud player below:
You can also keep up to date with solo musical goings on by following my new facebook page, LM Cooke Music, or via reverbnation, youtube and of course, soundcloud. Don't forget to subscribe/ like/ become a fan etc - your interaction helps with gig-getting!
