Lockdown activies
Like most other musicians, this Spring I had the unpleasant experience of wathcing my diary for 2020 be wiped swiftly clean. That said, lockdown has been a great time to compose, practice and rest and, resilient as we are, musicians are still finding ways to be creative.
In April Vipertime released Live At Smugglers Festival, an EP recorded the previous August. This is available on Bandcamp as PAYF download with all proceeds going to the amazing charity Solidaritech.
I also put together some quarantine Spotify playlists for Vipertime and Mansion of Snakes, kept regulary updated with tracks by our heroes, friends and peers. You can check them out here and here.
If you like your music to be curated in a more hamfisted (but hopefully endearing) way, I also live steamed several vinyl DJ sets from my living room in collaboration with Hyde Park Jazz Club. These are availabe to watch in full on their Facebook page.
Vipertime also took part in a live streamed “festival” run by Matt & Phreds and Lancaster Jazz Festival. Matías, Luke and I each recorded a solo improvisation at home, plus we included some live footage from Smugglers Festival and Hyde Park Book Club back in 2019. You can see this in full here plus I’ve included my saxophone improvisation below.