Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer's Blog

Hello!
We've been very busy since the launch, but we have posted up a video from the launch. We've got quite a few videos that we should blog about, so I'd better get blogging. This track is Time Out (from the album of course) with Pete on cajon and Mark on bass. (You can't see Mark because he's out of camera shot on the right, but he is there! (Sorry Mark!)


We're playing quite close to home in the next month, so if you're in and around Essex, make sure you pop in and see us!
08.07.09 Havering Folk Club, Romford, Essex
12.07.09 Twickfolk, Twickenham, London
17.07.09 Orpington Friday Folk, Orpington, Kent
19.07.09 FAB club, Greys, Essex
22.07.09 Hedingham Music Night, Hedingham, Essex

See you somewhere soon! Another video posting soon!
:)
Vicki and Jonny

Hello!
We had a fantastic time last night! Thank you to everyone that came out. We have photos and video, so over the weekend we'll post up a youtube clip or two! It was such a pleasure playing with Mark, Pete and Roy. We're still on a high from the whole evening!

We thanked Doug on stage for recording the album and making it so wonderful, but we forgot to thank Andy and Terry from The Long Drop for taking such awesome pictures and designing such a cool album cover and making our wonderful new postcards and flyers, so it's a bit late, but thank you Andy and Terry for doing such a great job!

Another blog at the weekend with pictures and video!
Hugs
Vicki & Jonny

Hello!

Today is the day, the Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer Big Band. We've waited a long time to "Big Band" ourselves up and we are very, very excited. It's all very exciting and scary at the same time. We're rehearsing this afternoon, so fingers crossed it goes well. Next week we'll post up a proper video blog next week. We have some video footage from the launch at Chippenham, so we'll blog some of that too. So hope to see as many people as possible tonight. Full details can be found on our Gleowien page.

Doors open at 7:30pm, the address is:
High Barn Ltd. The Bardfield Centre Great Bardfield, Essex, CM7 4SL, UK

See you soon!
Hugs
Vicki & Jonny

Hello!
We got very excited about the new album and made some badges up! So come and see us at a gig (or buy an album) and claim your badge! Only a week to go to the launch gig at the High Barn, very exciting! We're rehearsing at the weekend and then if you're local to us we'll be playing with Mark at the Windmill Music Club at the White Swan in Bicknacre, so come along for little sneak preview!
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Vicki &Jonny

Hello!
The album arrived safe and sound just over a week ago and we've been so excited ever since that it's taken us a week to blog about it! We picked the album up from The Angel car park in Chippenham and launched it the following day at the Cause. (We've had some video footage very kindly sent from the launch, so I'll do a video blog about it very soon!) We've been busy sending out all the pre-order copies.

If you've not ordered your copy yet just visit our Gleowien page!

We've got several gigs coming up in the next week or so:
02.06.09 Hoy at Anchor Folk Club, Leigh-on-Sea
04.06.09 Maidenhead Folk Club, Maidenhead

11.06.09 High Barn Folk Club, Gt Bardfield
Special Evening - FULL 4 PIECE BAND
with Mark Southgate, Pete Flood and Roy Jones.
Bring an instrument and play in the session after the gig for FREE entry!

27.06.09 Lymm Festival, Cheshire
28.06.09 Leigh-on-Sea Folk Festival,Essex

We'd love to see you at one of those gigs!
More blogging very soon!
:)
Vicki & Jonny

Hello!
The count down has kicked in now - 14 days until we hopefully get the album in our hands, so the pre-order button is now up on the website, the teaser track is up on myspacefor you to listen to (20 seconds of each track), and we've sent out the mail shot.
We're now only 14 days away from the big album launch, so here are some details for you...

Thursday 11th June, 8pm
The Great Bardfield Folk Club
High Barn, Great Bardfield, Essex
Tickets £6 or free if you bring an instrument and play in the session afterwards!

Support Act - The Most Unexpected Band
Guest Musicians Pete Flood and Mark Southgate will be there to give us that bigger band sound. This is a bit of a one off, so to hear us play live this is the one to come to!

Did we mention that it's free to get in if you play in the session afterwards?
See you there!
:)
Vicki & Jonny

Hello!
We're in the studio again recording with George and having lots of fun. As we all record apart it's given us some time to do some work on the website. So in celebration of the album going off to press yesterday we've uploaded all the dots of all our tunes on the new album to the website. We also added an arrange by tune name feature, there are quite a lot of tunes up there now! Our new publicity arrives on Tuesday too. So it's all go and all really exciting times! Keep an eye on the site for more news!
:)
Vicki & Jonny

Happy Mayday!

Gleowien, v. to make music, to make merry,
A CONCISE DICTIONARY OF MIDDLE-ENGLISH.
From A.D. 1150 to 1580 - Mayhew & Skeat

We're now entering very exciting times. We're pleased to be able to say that the audio and the artwork for the album are finished and hopefully as we speak being combined into a wonderful CD. Because it's so close to arriving we've put a pre-order button up on our shop site allowing the purchase of the album at a knockdown price of £10 (+p&p), just until the physical product arrives (when it'll go up to £12), so save yourselves some money and order the album now!

As you can see the album is called Gleowien, this is a middle english word and we figured it was the perfect word to describe what we do, we make music and we make merry! It's pronounced 'Glay-or-we-en' or check out our audio file to hear how it's pronounced (with thanks to our Middle English pronounciation specialist Simon!)

We were surprised in the week to find that two of Jonny's tunes have been added to the website thesesssion.org. In celebration of that we uploaded the track to myspace. Keep your eye on our myspace site, we'll be uploading a teaser track from Gleowien very soon.

We'll be blogging again soon, but that's all for now!
Hope everyone had a wonderful May day!
:)
Vicki & Jonny

Hello!
The count down has started, will the brand new album be ready to launch at Chippenham? Will the pieces of the jigsaw be ready in time? Watch this space! The burning question is - just how do you pronounce Gleowien? (and why!!) The April freebies are posted, mobile phone alarm ringtones this month. What would you like for next month? Answers on a postcard!

Next gigs:
27.04.09 Fox and Hounds Folk, Knatts Valley, Kent
02.05.09 Red Lion Folk Club (support to Mawkin:Causley), Birmingham
13.05.09 Ely Folk Club, Ely 01353 740999
16.05.09 Winchester MayFest, with George and Hector
22 - 23.05.09 Chippenham Folk Festival Chippenham
24 - 25.05.09 Fishguard Folk Festival, Fishguard, Wales
27.05.09 Famous Willows Folk Club Arundel, West Sussex
29 - 31.05.09 Bude Folk Festival, Bude, Cornwall

See you soon!
:)
Vicki & Jonny

Hello!
We had a great time at Acoustic Routes on Saturday with Isambarde. Bernard took some video of the evening, so here is our latest video of the day, Time Out....

If you can't see the video - click here!
There'll be more video and more news soon!

:))
Vicki & Jonny

Hello!
We've posted up our Freebie of the month. Another pipey type ring tone. Let us know what you'd like for next month! We have a few gigs this month...

12.03.09 Travellers Rest Folk Club, Crown Public House, Otford, Kent, 01255 679232
15.03.09 Half Penny Folk Club Gower, South Wales
21.03.09 Acoustic Routes, double bill with Isambarde Cambridge, 07971 299659

Don't forget to follow our twitter stream, we keep it updated as often as possible (and more with mobile technology!!) Keep an eye out for a competition we're going to run using twitter, so hit the subscribe button and follow us! We hope to see you on the road anyway!
:)
Vicki & Jonny

Hello!
Thursday night ended up being pretty much snowed off, but George, Clive and ourselves made it to the High Barn in Great Bardfield. We rehearsed and then had a pleasant evening round the table singing and playing whilst the weather did it's worst. We did make it home again, but the roads were ungritted around Great Bardfield and it was slow going. Here's what everyone missed...

(If you can't see the movie click here)

We've had the photos back from our photoshoot, so we're now sifting through them and deciding what goes where. We've got some more dates on the gig list, so take a look.
Maybe we'll see you in Blackpool on Wednesday evening.
More soon.
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Vicki & Jonny

Hello!
This month we've gone ringtone mad and are giving away two ring tones. One is a clip from the new album and one is a clip from ScatterPipes. The Smallpipes are great as a ring tone, you can definitely hear hear the phone, you're not going to miss another call ever! So visit our freebies page and pick up your ringtones! We've also included the file format for the iphone! Let us know what you'd like for next month and we'll do our best to oblige!
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Vicki & Jonny

Hello!
Just a quick note to let everyone know that we're playing with George Papavgeris on Thursday night at the High Barn Folk Club in Great Bardfield. This is a rare opportunity to see Jonny tickle the old ivories on the High Barns very nice grand piano and Vicki play the Double Bass. So if you're local to us then we'd love to see you there! We're in the middle of working on George's next album, so watch this space for news of that. Hope to see you either there, in Lowestoft on Friday or just somewhere along the road! We'll try to video blog Thursday as it's rare to see the double bass and piano, watch this space!
:)
Vicki & Jonny