24^th Feb 2010

Winter Olympics Special…

So I am sitting in Minneapolis looking out across Gold Medal Park, now a snowfield due to Arctic temperatures, glad to be tucked away in the heated comfort of the hotel. Now don’t get me wrong I know you may be thinking why does he always bang on about the weather? If you are then switch your computer off go and make a cup of tea. I am once again on tour with One Eskimo in the land of the brave and free attempting to learn the geographical position of every town and city in the United States by visiting them and playing music.  Tour started on the East coast in time to catch “Snowmageddon” (yes that is what it was referred to on the TV so it must be true), which just pipped the equally chilling moniker of February Fury. We spent 2 weeks enjoying New York, Woodstock, Akron and Detroit to then sojourn to the warm sunshine of the West coast of LA and “classy” San Diego. Mostly radio and TV promo so far but we have a bunch of US dates opening for Gomez which will be great  (last time I saw them was playing in Perth about 12 years ago) then playing on the Ellen Degeneres show airing March 18^th, and Coachella Festival April 18^th. You can find out all things Eskimo related at www.oneeskimo.com

The big news in the Headspace camp is that we have finished demoing the tracks for our first full-length album. We are really excited about the direction and sound of this album and we are currently finalising arrangements via email (gotta love technology) and Adam has started laying down keyboards already. As ever our schedules have us a million miles from each other but, thanks to laptops and Logic we have managed to get things moving. I will be starting guitars here in the next few days too. We will be updating our website and social network pages soon to reflect some of the themes and ideas that will be reflected in the album, but without giving anything away keep an eye out for news.

Big news in the Anchorhead and Haken camps, sees my very good friend and awesome musician Charlie Griffiths marry his long time partner Fiona. As ever the life of a musician I was on the other side of the planet and couldn’t be there, really sorry guys, but much love to both of you. Check out Haken’s new album Aquarius coming out soon it is awesome trust me http://www.myspace.com/hakenmusic

Adam and Damian can be heard on Total Rock Radio 1^st March at 8pm please tune in to hear all about how the new album came to be and probably a lot of other stuff too http://www.totalrock.com/events.php

Well as I listen to the birds chirping at the outro of Dream Theater’s Count of Tuscany it would seem apt to sign off. Don’t forget to search and add headspacetheband on facebook too or not…

I’m off to pee in the snow.

Hey everyone

Rich here with another update.

Had a couple of sessions this week (that’s right, recording sessions. There are still a few around) for an artist called SHENA. Jim Winchester was producing along with Glen Skinner. Glen has worked with the greats (as far as drummers are concerned) and engineered on albums with YES, TOTO and other fantastic bands. Was a real pleasure!

Also had another session with Peter Cox and Richard Drummie around at my studio and put some drums on a track called ‘Skin Deep’.  All sounding very good if I say so myself!

Getting together with Adam soon to start thinking about drums for the proper album recording. Looking forward to it seeing as we were all in the same room once already this year - Lets make it a couple of days and actually f**cking play a show!! (Oh, and record the album).All for now. Keep checking the youtube channel, facebook page and back here regular!

Cheers, R.

Waving goodbye, tears and handkerchiefs are what you would have seen at Heathrow last week as Pete left for 3 months of an American tour with One Eskimo.
Headspace weren’t there to see him off, so the people that were actually there waving and crying must have been there seeing someone else off…

Lee and I have been rehearsing at Bush Studios in Shepard’s Bush, London for a week with an artist called Stacey Jackson who was running a charity event at the Tabernacle club in Nottinghill Gate in aid of Music for Youth. We had a great week alongside some other great musicians, Milton McDonald (some may remember him from working with Jon Anderson and touring guitar with ABWH) and Alex Toff on drums.

The Tabernacle club is within the walls of what looks like an old Roman Catholic church and I can only imagine just how much grief from it receives from it’s neighbours when it has music events!

More footage has been uploaded on to the youtube channel from the studio progress, albeit, not much recording….

www.youtube.com/headspacetheband

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AW