Peter Kenny
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Clameur launch 8pm Saturday 11th Feb
Well here we go… Just about to launch the album. Rehearsals went fairly well on Wednesday, with a really nice feeling a bit like getting the band together. Also the album should be available to buy and for download next week. So here is the programme for the launch. Truly exciting. And of course rather…
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Three Portraits for Poet and Piano
So I began rehearsals yesterday of the last two parts of Three Portraits for Poet and Piano. The first piece is Minotaur which is on the Clameur album. The second two have been finished this week and are new-born. I sat with Glen Capra yesterday going through them. Excellent music. The second piece is called…
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Newsflash: winning is nice
I love the challenge of being asked into an agency to work on a pitch. I was called last week to say that work I had done with resident art director guru Keith Hardy before and after Christmas won a tidy pharma pitch for my chums at Grey Healthcare on an eye health product. I…
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Clameur: The Words
After some humming and hawing Matt and I decided not to include the words as part of the CD packaging. However the booklet is available as a free download on the Pollard & Kenny site. It contains all the words for This Concert Will Fall In Love With You, Clameur and Minotaur.
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Clameur Launch 11 February 2012
The Clameur album launch will be on 11th February 2012 at the Unitarian Church in New Road Brighton. For those that know Brighton this couldn’t be more central, and is the big church with classical columns a few doors up from Brighton’s Theatre Royal and opposite the Dome Box Office and Mash Tun pub. The…
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Coleridge and Dejection
Re-reading T.S.Eliot’s the Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, specifically his essay about Wordsworth and Coleridge. Here Eliot makes a memorable assessment of Coleridge. …for a few years he (Coleridge) had been visited by the Muse (I know of no poet to whom this hackneyed metaphor is better applicable) and thenceforth was a…
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Minotaur
Here is a video I shot for the short track Minotaur on my forthcoming CD with Matthew Pollard called Clameur. Whipped quickly around Brighton with my flip camera. Rather pleased with the result…
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The Shakespeare Trio
Well my pals The Shakespeare Trio have just released their first CD. The band is made up of Dipak Chanda and Richard Gibson, as well as the ghost of Shakespeare of course who provides all their lyrics. Like all brilliant ideas, Richard’s notion of setting all the sonnets of Shakespeare seems to be rather a…
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