News
2010
February
Free download for Black Sabbath day, February 13th!
Acoustic blues fans might want to look away now ...Sod
Valentine's Day: the real celebration of the weekend is February 13th,
which marks the 40th Anniversary of the release of Black Sabbath, the
self-titled debut album of history's most influential heavy band.
Some would say this also marks the birth of metal, which seems about right.As a small contribution to the celebration, here's a track that was
intended for Craig's Pissed Off, Bitter And Willing To Share album
(available here)
but seemed somewhat out of place in the end - despite the title, it's
more of a straight-ahead stoner rock type thing, and although it's
hardly metal it's safe to say the primary influence is early
Sabbath.
Craig: "It ended up a bit faster than intended, it's a bit rough
around the edges and has a guitar solo that sounds like John McLaughlin
playing The Flight Of The Bumble Bee while falling off a donkey, but I
kind of like it. I'm giving serious consideration to getting a
band together later in the year playing something between alt.blues and
stoner rock and I suppose this is an indicator of where that might go
..."Anyway this is Channel Nowhere's first foray into the free download thing, and we'll leave it up for the next week or so.For your free download, do the right-click thing here or go to:www.myspace.com/craighughesmusicwww.last.fm/music/craig+hughesIf you have any problems, just email admin@channelnowhere.com and we'll email the MP3 back.The track was produced, as was the album, by Tommy Duffin and myself, and that's Tommy on drums. Recorded at Audio Experiments.
January
New gig date added for Saturday 30thJanuary here.***
First full-length album reviews ...
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Blues Underground Network Year End Review for 2009 -
Pissed Off, Bitter And Willing To Share named Best British Blues Album ... Canada's
Blues Underground Network has just posted its Year End Review for 2009,
and Craig's album Pissed Off Bitter And Willing To Share gets a couple
of mentions. It's at number 6 in the Top 25 Albums of 2009
(topping the list is the ever-excellent Bullfrog Brown), and has been
named Best British Blues Album.
Have a look here at the full article.
Dates for That Devil Music @ The State Bar (featuring Craig Hughes + guests) for the first half of 2010 have been posted in the gigs section.***New Blog
Craig has a new blog on Wordpress. Check it out here.
2009
December
The
new album - Pissed Off, Bitter And Willing To Share - is now available
for download (album and individual tracks) from iTunes and CD Baby, and
on CD from CD Baby, craighughes.net and channelnowhere.com. The
EP's up there too. Go on. Treat yourself.
Progress
on the album has been slow but steady with airplay on SubCity Radio,
Celtic Music Radio and Sunny Govan FM, a nice wee feature on
the album etc. at Leicester Bangs. Blues Underground Network has a page up for it too, with a review to follow.
The first 'mini-review' has appeared, on The Blues Report blog:
"Yesterday
I informed you all that I was going to be listening to a couple of
recently submitted CD's, Craig Hughes "Pissed Off, Bitter And Willing
To Share", Floyd Lee Band "Doctors, Devils & Drugs". Well I must
say that I was more then just impressed, those were two damn good CD's.
Blues music the way it was meant to be played, down and dirty, no
prisoners taken."
NovemberRadio Appearance Saturday 28th November
On Saturday 28th November Craig will be a guest on Ross McFadyen's Saturday Sequence on
Celtic Music Radio, doing a few songs and an interview. Starting at 2pm. Tune your wireless
radiograms to 1530AM, or listen live online at www.celticmusicradio.net. There's also a listen
again option at www.canstream.co.uk/celticmusic.Album now available
Craig's new album, 'Pissed Off, Bitter And Willing To Share' is available now from the
craighughes.net shop.
Album release and launch!
Craig's new album, 'Pissed Off, Bitter And Willing To Share' is
released on November 13th,
with a launch night as part of That Devil
Music at The State Bar in Glasgow. Print off the flyer,
bring it
along on the night and get a quid off at the door.
Craig
will be playing songs from the album, which will be available on the
night at a one-off
discounted price, and there will be further live
music from friends of
That Devil Music: alt.country duo The Dirt plus Edinburgh's The Bluesfather.
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EP available for download @ CD Baby and iTunes
The Broke, Lonely And Guilty EP is now available to download from iTunes (HERE) and from CD Baby (CD/download - available HERE). CD Baby is also handling full digital distribution so look for the EP soon on, Amazon, Spotify and the rest.
September 2009
EP available for download @ CD Baby
The Broke, Lonely And Guilty EP is now available (CD/download) from CD Baby. Check it out HERE. CD Baby is also handling full digital distribution so look for the EP soon on iTunes, Amazon and the rest.
Money off offer for 13th Note gig!
August 2009
Here's a fancy-dan piece of internet gubbins for you. Younger readers will recognize it as a 'widget'.
It plays songs.
