Archive
2011
............................................................................................................. News - 31st December 2011 Newsletter Update .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - Thursday 29th December 2011 Bat and Ball, Boundstone, Farnham, GU10 4SA: Vic's Buskers A very nice way to end the "performing" year last night .... |
............................................................................................................. News - 22nd December 2011 Newsletter Update .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - Monday 19th December 2011 The Jolly Anglers, Reading RG1 3EA: open-mic Very nice festive atmosphere last night at the Jolly Anglers .... |
............................................................................................................. News - 17th December 2011 Newsletter Update .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - Wednesday 14th December 2011 The Global Cafe, RISC, London Street, Reading, RG1 4PS "From Zero To Hero" Okay, a little bit over the top with the "Hero" bit but if you .... |
............................................................................................................. News - 10th December 2011 Newsletter Update .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - Wednesday 7th December 2011 The Crown Inn, Theale, Reading RG7 5BT: open-mic It's always a pleasure going back to the Crown. I only .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - Tuesday 6th December 2011 The Rowbarge, Guildford, GU1 1LW: Vic's Buskers Apart from murdering Jackson Browne's "I'm Alive .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - Monday 5th December 2011 The Jolly Anglers, Reading RG1 3EA: open-mic Another enojayble night at The Jolly Anglers though unusually .... |
............................................................................................................. News - 2nd December 2011 Newsletter Update .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - Thursday 1st December 2011 The Railway Arms, Alton GU34 2RB: Vic's Buskers I haven't been back to the Railway Arms since earlier in the year. It seems like light years ago now and it appears I've got my .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - Wednesday 30th November 2011 The White Horse, Easebourne, Midhurst GU29 0AL: Vic's Buskers The White Horse is a new venue for me and indeed I think this is Vic Cracknell's second open-mic there. The audience were a .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - Monday 28th November 2011 The Jolly Anglers, Reading RG1 3EA: open-mic And another very enjoyable open-mic night at The Jolly Anglers hosted by Tony Brown. As per the previous night I think .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - Sunday 27th October 2011 Propaganda, Fleet, Hants,GU51 3BU: Vic's Buskers Another enjoyable night at Vic Cracknell's "Vic's Buskers". I didn't think I sang or played as well as last time but there was .... |
............................................................................................................. News - 27th November 2011 Newsletter Update .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - Thursday 24th November 2011 Bat and Ball, Boundstone, Farnham, GU10 4SA: Vic's Buskers The last time I was at the Bat and Ball I had a great time and .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - Wednesday 23rd November 2011 Deja Vu, Reading: Bohemian Night open-mic A busy night at Deja Vu with a large talented contingent from .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 21st November 2011 The Jolly Anglers, Reading RG1 3EA: open-mic When I was a secondary school teacher, there was always some nervousness before the start of the Autumn Term along the .... |
............................................................................................................. News - 11th November 2011 Andrew Shearer / Luke Paulo Gig - 14th December 2011 .... |
............................................................................................................. News - 7th November 2011 All performances cancelled this week .... |
............................................................................................................. News - 4th November 2011 Newsletter Update .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - Wednesday 2nd November 2011 The Crown Inn, Theale, RG7 5BT: open-mic It Is Just There I always like going back to Theale, and the Crown is particularly friendly. Maybe it was a mistake to remind everyone that .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 31st October 2011 The Jolly Anglers, Reading RG1 3EA: open-mic You Can Dance An enjoyable open-mic run by Tony Brown last night. I think it's about the fourth time I've been to The Jolly Anglers and I think ... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 30th October 2011 Propaganda, Fleet, Hants, GU51 3BU: Vic's Buskers The Dark Side of Propaganda Another excellent open-mic run by Vic Cracknell. It was a bit disappointing that some performers left almost immediately .... |
............................................................................................................. News - 29th October 2011 Newsletter Update .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 27th October 2011 The Turks, Ragged Jacks, open-mic "Was That Last One, One of Yours?" Well you know me, I'm wondering what was wrong with the way I played the last song that it didn't seem like a cover?! .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 24th October 2011 The Corner House, Windsor, SL4 1BG: open-mic Castle Rock ('n'Roll) It's the first time I've been to this venue which is in the shadow of Windsor Castle. The open-mic is in its own bar area and .... |
............................................................................................................. News - 23rd October 2011 Newsletter Update .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 22nd October 2011 The Greyhound, Wargrave, RG10 8BU: Boho in the Country Intimacy In The Country It has been six months since I played at the Greyhound and it was good to back. It's probably the smallest venue I play, the .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 19th October 2011 Deja Vu, Reading, RG1 2LG: Bohemian Night open-mic Did You Feel The Earth Move? My performance tonight wasn't as good as Monday's. I'm not quite sure why but I couldn't really get into it. I do find the .... |
............................................................................................................. News - 17th October 2011 Newsletter Update .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 17th October 2011 The Jolly Anglers, Reading, RG1 3EA: open-mic Yes! Yes! Yes! Well after "Stop Me If You've Heard It Before" you'd think I'd have more sense than to start the set with a joke that had just .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 13th October 2011 The Turks, Reading, RG1 5BJ: Ragged Jacks open-mic Competing With Scantily Clad Screaming Drunken Women I've had an intention to play at The Turks for sometime but events have conspired against me from getting to the fortnightly open-mics until now. It was quite a lively crowd exacerbated with .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 12th October 2011 Deja Vu, Reading, RG1 2LG: Bohemian Night open-mic Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before. I was having coffee with a friend last week and I told a joke .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 10th October 2011 The Jolly Anglers, Reading, RG1 3EA: open-mic The Last Dance Remember the discos at school where at the last dance everybody had got off with everybody else except you? .... |
............................................................................................................. News - 7th October 2011 Newsletter Update .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 5th October 2011 The Crown Inn, Theale, RG7 5BT: open-mic A Victim Of My Own Success Last week I spoke of how I'm always "chuffed" when people start dancing when I'm playing. It kind of backfired on me last night when in the middle of the second song .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 3rd October 2011 The Jolly Anglers, Reading, RG1 3EA: open-mic My performance was okay last night but it didn't seem as good as last Thursday. I can't explain why - the pub was great and the audience appreciative .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 30th September 2011 Finding Joe Good luck to Patrick Takaya Solomon and the premiere of his film, Finding Joe, in Los Angeles tonight .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 29th September 2011 Make Those People Dance A girlfriend once said that I don't take compliments well. It's probably true. I suspect I've usually got some inner dialogue going: "What are they after?" and / or "They must be foolish" .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 28th September 2011 Risc@RISK! Those of you that know me and / or read these pages will know that I have quite a strong attachment to The Global Cafe and RISC in Reading .... |
............................................................................................................. News - 23rd September 2011 Newsletter Update .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 22nd September 2011 "Julie Newmar as Catwoman" Video So Anne Hathaway is going to be Catwoman in the new Batman film, Dark Knight Rises. No disrespect to Hathaway or .... |
............................................................................................................. Gallery - 9th September 2011 Gallery - New section added ....1 |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 3rd September 2011 Cheers - The Debut Gig Video Finally, finally, finally the video of my debut gig at The Global Cafe is finished. Although my performance isn't perfect .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 24th August 2011 Looking For Clues Hmm, I don't know if this is a good idea or not but there's a "back-story" of how I got to this point and it's being told .... |
............................................................................................................. Essay - 23rd August 2011 The Old Bachelor At The End Of The Road I've just been notified the story which I won second prize for in 2009 is no longer on Writing Magazine's website, which I assume means I can now publish it here. |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 19th August 2011 Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story I mentioned a while back that I enjoyed Eddie Izzard's biographical documentary Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 28th July Debut Gig: The Global Cafe - 11th December 2008 A rough cut of the video footage can be found here .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 26 July 2011 Silent Valley I'm finally getting time to work on the footage from the debut gig in 2008. It's not quite finished but I'm reminded that around the time of performing Silent Valley .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 21st July 2011 So, I hear you need cheering up today .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 14th July 2011 UK Mountain Marathon Congratulations to Bruce, Colin and Keith and their support team in completing the UK Mountain Marathon despite bad weather .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 12th July 2011 Finding Joe Trailer Very pleased to learn that the trailer for Patrick Takaya Solomon's film about Joseph Campbell "Finding Joe" is now available .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 8th July 2011 Good luck to Bruce and his team in their attempt of the UK Mountain Marathon (Ben Nevis, Scafell and Snowdon) over the next 24 hours. |
............................................................................................................. News - 1st July 2011 Setting Sail on the Thames Well, that was a hectic week. I'm pleased everything that I needed to do is now complete: three stories finished and reviewed and entered into the Bridport Prize; two songs entered into .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 29th June 2011 The Big Arts Picnic Here's the video footage from my performance at The Big Arts Picnic .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 28th June 2011 Setting Sail There are a lot of deadlines this week for various pieces of work. Along with rehearsing for The Big Arts Picnic tomorrow, there are three stories forThe Bridport Prize that need to be .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 26th June 2011 Propaganda, Fleet, Hants: Vic's Buskers A very pleasant evening in Propaganda tonight. As always with these open-mic events, the evening was jam-packed with talented performers and it's great just to sit and watch .... |
............................................................................................................. News - 24th June 2011 The
Big Art Picnic, 29th June 2011 |
............................................................................................................. Gig -16th June 2011 The Cellar Bar, South Hill Park, Bracknell: This is Open Mike! The Tommy Cooper of Rock A bit of a quieter week this week due to some kind of chest infection / heavy cold which wiped me out Sunday and .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig -8th June 2011 Deja Vu, Reading - Bohemian Night:- open-mic WOW! What a night. I've travelled far and wide and spent small fortunes to see my favourite bands but I think I've rarely been as satisfied with live music as I was on Wednesday night .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig -7th June 2011 The Rowbarge, Guildford: Vic's Buskers - open-mic Another very pleasant evening organised by Vic Cracknell. I guess the stand out for me was Candice Botha who did some sort of "mash up" between Kings of Leon and Adele .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig -5th June 2011 The Prince of Wales, Haslemere, Surrey: Vic's Buskers Right Back To The Start. It's not often I hear anyone do a cover which I think is better than the original but last night I saw a sixth-form aged girl duo do .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig -1st June 2011 The Crown Inn, Theale - open-mic Slaying Demons Although it's an amusing story to tell, I'd be lying if I said my last visit to The Crown hadn't knocked me a little. The subsequent .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog -25th May 2011 Soundcloud For you Soundclouders out there http://soundcloud.com/andrew-shearer |
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-25th May 2011
Deja Vu, Reading - Bohemian Night - open-mic Thankfully life has returned to some sort of normality this week and I was pleased to be back at Deja Vu having missed last .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 20th May 2011 Early Morning Calls Experience tells me an early morning call only means very bad news. This time, on Monday, although bad, it wasn't as bad ... |
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- 11th May 2011
Deja Vu, Reading - Bohemian Night - open-mic I'm starting to see Wednesday nights at Deja Vu as my home ground. I always feel I play better there; it might be just because I've become familiar with it. Anyway it was another excellent night of music. The stand out for me, and I hope my other fellow..... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 10th May 2011 Bar Des Arts, Guildford: Vic's Buskers - open-mic |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 10th May 2011 Jakabo -The Jakabo Band; Deja Vu, Reading 12th May 2011 Great little new band that I saw recently at an open-mic event I was performing at. I don't have a vested interest in promoting .... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 4th May 2011 Deja Vu, Reading - Bohemian Night - open-mic |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 3rd May 2011 The Rowbarge, Guildford: Vic's Buskers - open-mic |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 27th April 2011 Deja Vu, Reading - Bohemian Night - open-mic |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 26th April 2011 The Railway Arms, Alton - Vic's Buskers Helloooooo Alton, Good To Be Back Okay the title is a bit over the top but it was nice to be playing in the location of an excellent education (Eggar's School; Alton Sixth Form College); an optician extraordinaire; the only car mechanic that I know of who has integrity; and .... |
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- 23rd April 2011
The Greyhound, Wargrave - Boho in the Country Another evening run by Rob Sowden. I've got to say I'm greatly impressed by his support, helpfulness and encouragement to the less experienced acts.... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 20th April 2011 Deja Vu, Reading - Bohemian Night Pleased to report three songs, It's Just Not There, Silent Valley, Get Up! went okay last night. Not great performances but it's good to have got this first one of this next phase under my belt. Bohemian Night is run by Rob Sowden of Arena and Solar.... |
............................................................................................................. Newsletter - 20th April 2011 Irritating Welshmen and Changes to The Newsletter; What's Occurring?; Help For Heroes; iTunes and Ping. I almost choked on my coffee last week when a www.andrewshearer.com newsletter subscriber suggested that.... |
............................................................................................................. Gig - 6th April 2011 The Crown Inn, Theale - open-mic First False Start Notice me in front of my name on the CD cover of "At The Water's Edge"? Well, that's supposed to symbolise me getting in the way of myself.... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 1st March 2011 Asha Faria-Vare: Strangers; Solo-acoustic performances Bruce Leslie sent me this link to a performance by Asha Faria-Vare of her song Strangers. I think it's rather good .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 25th February 2011 Pete Lincoln. Pete Lincoln was a performer that I'd go and see probably during the same period when I was terrorising school kids with my rendition of American Pie. He'd play regularly down at what .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 10th February 2011 Worlds Collide and American Pie. It's funny how different worlds can collide. Completely by chance recently an ex-pupil from Gillotts School where I used to teach Mathematics 15 years ago met a telecoms ex-colleague .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 9th February 2011 Finding Joe: A film by Patrick Takaya Solomon Interested to learn this morning of a feature length documentary about the teachings of Joseph Campbell; specifically "The Hero's Journey" and being guided by "following your bliss".... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 7th February 2011 John Barry, The Persuaders and music, Roxy music I was saddened to hear last week the news that John Barry had died. I saw that some of my "contemporaneous friends" had paid tribute to Barry and was reminded of how his work had .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 2nd February 2011 Save Our Forests I wasn't sure whether to say anything about the protest against the planned sell-off of England's forests. (The rest of the UK seems to have rejected the plans). I don't really consider myself a political animal (i.e. I shamefully usually have my head stuck in .... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 25th January 2011 Bob Dylan's Chronicles, Leonard Cohen, and Not Going to Concerts Just finished reading Bob Dylan's first volume of autobiography, "Chronicles". It really is excellent and I endorse all the plaudits it has received. I hadn't been tempted by it before and wasn't sure if I'd like it but as it was a birthday present I thought I'd give it a ... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 24th January 2011 Patti Smith Interview Great interview with Patti Smith in the Guardian by Aida Edemariam on Saturday, which included a few glimpses of the "artist as a young person". I particularly liked: "Her friend, Robert Maplethorpe, refused to "listen to me falter, question myself..... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 19th January 2011 Help For Heroes My good friend and ex-colleague Bruce Leslie, along with two of his friends, is doing the Mountain Marathon in Summer 2011 to raise money for Help for Heroes, the charity which supports our wounded servicemen and servicewomen. If there's any chance.... |
............................................................................................................. Blog - 17th January 2011 Fish Fight Surely throwing back HALF the fish that are caught and killed in the North Sea is just wrong? (FISH FIGHT) |
............................................................................................................. Newsletter - 12th January 2011 "Follow Your Bliss", Joseph Campbell and the song You've Got The Magic Back "If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living.... |
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