Out and About – the ashen

Supporting Josienne Clarke

17th August 2019 by the_ashen

Bratislava, josienne clarke, live, slovakia, Trnava

Really exciting news, I’ll be supporting Josienne Clarke on her first live dates in Slovakia this September. Josienne is one of the best singers in the world, and has won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Josienne has frequently been compared to the great Sandy Denny, but present too are elements of Nina Simone and Gillian Welch; all three are important influences on her work.

Mr Alec Bowman will also be playing some songs from his forthcoming work, and this will be their public debut!

I will be playing songs from my new album Slowdive, which has been described by folking.com as “show[ing] traditional/folk influences, and can certainly be described as fitting in with “a melancholy folk rock project“, though there’s a raw passion here that transcends melancholy”

Come see us on 4th September in Nadvorie, Trnava and Cafe Scherz, Bratislava on the 5th

A picture of andi (the ashen) in the underground

The Bowman Experience

6th June 2019 by the_ashen

Out and About

london, MrAlecBowman, photos

i recently did a photoshoot with Mr Alec Bowman, and he made a rather lovely blog post about our day. i have to say that meeting him was a confirmation to me that finding real friendship through social media channels like Twitter is quite possible. through a series of serendipitous events we were able to meet up in London, and quite apart from the many, many photographs he took of me (quite possibly more than are in existence in the entirety of the rest of my life), we had a wonderful time talking and getting to know each other.

i really don’t like having my picture taken, but Alec was able to keep things calm and comfortable. i really enjoyed his sense of excitement about his work and that he was very willing to work with me on getting the sort of images i had imagined.

you can read his blog post here