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WELCOME BACK SAFELY

to

Pete Goodall and

Jane

after their recent holiday in North West Italy.

They missed their flight back to UK due to absolutely unprecedented weather conditions en route to Geneva airport.

The hair raising journey began in the early hours of New Years Eve, in treacherous weather conditions with only a Fiat 500 trying to "man up" to being a 4 x 4.

Pete drove the brave little vehicle along winding mountainous roads up Mont Blanc, Europe's highest peak, through drifting snow and ice, only to find their route through the 12 mile tunnel blocked.

After waiting several hours with by now hundreds of other stranded motorists, an official van with flashing lights stopped by each vehicle advising that no one would be able to pass through the tunnel that day.

Pete and Jane were forced to make a 500 km detour back along now even more treacherous mountain roads to the St Bernard Pass, which against all the odds was still open when they arrived.

By now they had rebooked their flight for the next day - what would we do without mobile phones? - and exhausted, they reached Martigny at the east end of Lake Geneva.

Luck was with them at last and they managed to find a Tourist Information Office still open and were directed to a hotel with vacancies where they spent New Years Eve.

What a journey ....

Just like BEING ON THE ROAD AGAIN .....

 

 

 

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Moving Shadows

Valeryan's latest single release featuring the whole band

 due on I-TUNES any day now

On play list for Live Wire Talk Plus www.livewiretalk.co.nr

First official radio play in the UK

Tuesday 10th January 2012 between 8pm - 10pm

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Watch Sky 201 & Freesat 403 this Sunday 8th January at

9pm

The Making of a Star

The programme that takes a look behind the scenes of one of the UK's toughest singing competitions, Open Mic UK, which has seen previous winners like Birdy go all the way to have a global chart success! We go deep into the set up and workings of the tour that spans 6 months across the UK as the contestants battle it out to impress the Judges on stage for a place in the Grand Final at the Indigo at The O2 in London .... and win the coveted annual title of UK's best on the Mic .... this is Open Mic .... The Making of a Star.

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  November 28th 2011 - BBC Radio South

 at Tunbridge Wells Studios

Valeryan with Pete Goodall and Roger Day at BBC Radio South

- guests on "The Roger Day Show" - live acoustic performance/interview - tracks - "Never Shared the Wine" - "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" and "Mary Mary Mary" - all three titles from the album "Rolling Road" - due for release spring 2012

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News Flash - Wed 23rd November 2011

SKY TV will be following the Live & Unsigned Competition when it starts up again in the New Year.

This means there's another very big reason to enter the competition, with a now £10,000 cash top prize + up to 50 top festival slots on offer as well !

Check out www.LiveandUnsigned.uk.com

Also follow Live and Unsigned on:-

www.facebook.com/liveandunsigneduk

www.twitter.com/LiveandUnsigned

 

Live Fest www.LiveFest.co.uk Saturday 21st January at The O2

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  BBC East Sue Marchant regional show - Wed 28th October - 8.20pm

interview/performance session Valeryan with Pete Goodall - going out to BBC Radio Northampton; BBC Three Counties Herts, Beds and Bucks; BBC Essex; BBC Peterborough; BBC Cambridgshire; BBC Norfolk; and BBC Suffolk

 Listen out for acoustic versions of

Who Knows Where the Time Goes +           Moving Shadows .......

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Valeryan & Pete at Hermitage FM - live acoustic session - 5th October 2011 - song featured - Moving Shadows .......from the album Rolling Road .......

       

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19th September 2011 update

 

Valeryan's started a long series of radio

interviews as pre release promotion for single

Who Knows Where the Time Goes - taken from her album Rolling Road which will be available next spring.....

Who Knows Where the Time Goes should be available for download from iTunes by the end of October ....

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1st September 2011 update

  Refurbishment well under way at our new but hopefully temporary abode:

              35 Three Elms Trading Estate, Hereford

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AT LAST .....

the long awaited album from

Valeryan

 ROLLING ROAD...

well nearly ...

All master tracks are in the "can" and mixing and mastering tasks are under way at the studios in Hereford  ........ and away in Oxford ....

A haunting rendition of Who Knows Where the Time Goes will very shortly be released as a single and will hit the radio waves as part of the pre-release promotion programme for the album ... listen out for Pete Goodall's beautiful guitar notes weaving between the lines of Valeryan's melodious voice  .........  a true synergy ....

The album of 12 tracks, nine of which are written by Valeryan provides a musical entertainment encompassing  contrasting styles of voice and arrangement  ........ Moving Shadows has a latin feel ......  Circle Line  - country rock ...... Tinker Tailor - almost pure folk ........ Never Shared the Wine is reminiscent of a delicate music box ........ and is a true story .....Twelfth Night  (how's your Shakespeare?) verging towards jazz ...... Betrayed by a Kiss -  sultry and bluesy with a good, tongue in cheek story line ....... Galadriel's Mirror - folky and autobiographical ......

Mary Mary Mary tells another story in  folk club style with a catchy chorus for all to join in ....  and  Woodland Spirit ranges from a gentle folky start, building and building its hook line chorus into an almost pounding soul ending ....

Fitting well into the overall feel of the album is a dramatic version of the traditional song She Moved Through the Fayre arranged by Valeryan,   and lastly, Bob Lind's Drifter's Highway - a song she first recorded many years ago for Decca .......... while still at school!

Drifter's Highway was the song that brought Valeryan into contact with Pete Goodall again after many years. He wrote and produced a single - Whichaway Billy - with her while she was part of The Settlers  (UK Band) way back in the mid 70's ......

The album has been arranged by Pete in conjunction with Val, and engineered throughout by Bri at the Hereford Studios.

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Hereford Music Studios and Speakeasy Recordings are delighted to announce .. The Return of The BrickShed.

New Album
Mid-November saw Lez, Walter and colleagues commence work on their third album for Speakeasy - following on from their eponymous first and 2008's 'Corn Circles'.
With over half of the songs already written, the album (provisionally entitled 'Solstice') is beginning to take on a life of its own - which is a good sign because this is when the band start to produce their best music.
BrickShed Bonus Bonanza!
With the new release pencilled in for the first half of 2011, as a precursor the first two albums are planned for re-release with bonus tracks, new artwork, and a wealth of previously unpublished material including lyrics and background information on the songs.
Expect to see the re-releases in the New Year - and watch this page for further news.
 
Radio GaGa ...

Pete's latest radio interview - in which he talks about the school, studios, current and future releases, his time as a hired assassin for MI5 ( only joking. Maybe ..) and other stuff - with Phil Ray (of Live Wire Talk) is still available to listen to on
www.livewiretalk.co.nr
 

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