R.I.P Tony Young 
My friend and website designer Tony Young died June 3rd aged 42 after being diagonised with a brain tumour in Febuary this year.

A brave,spirited and super-positive character loved by all who knew him.Every holiday saw him cycling across Canada or Cuba or on school trips to Namibia (He was an IT teacher at King Alfred School, Golders Green) and seemed to have packed a lot of living into his limited years.

Also a member of the five a side group Paddington Wrecks FC and a terrible gossip too. Very glad to have known him.A star that shone too briefly .





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Stoking the Fire 
a favourite at the swamp are the band "The Bonfires".we've been writing furiously for the upcoming album.("FFOS").

check out a solo midnight performance by jon green - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvMsekdIxkc



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Easy As 1-2-3 
last year mads,richard law and i worked with a talented singer-songwriter from bolton, stephanie kirkham, under the project name 'lucy rocket'.

things didn't work out for 'lucy rocket' but happily peugeot are using one of the songs in their ad for a new sporty looking car.

stephanie,mads and i wrote a couple of other crackers ('bon voyage' and 'kiss me kwik') which may now also surface.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39xgokjDOSw

recent visitors to the swamp include 'the bonfires',darren hayes and danish pop star (and germany's number one) aura dione.

and to top it off 'cry me out' is on the number one album 'now that's what i call music 75'.

ok enough bragging.


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50 AWATS 
two highlights of the year so far....my 50th birthday bash and todd rundgren performing his classic seventies album "a wizard; a true star".

it was an honour to have so many of my dearest friends at a surprise birthday party.in fact it was overwhelming.a slick live band with various star turns from guest singers.an amazing evening.love was in the air.

couple of weeks later i was lucky enough to attend todd's rehearsals for the hammersmith show.i shook the genius's hand.a wizard.a true star.the show was like crazy theatre.check out the posts on youtube.my inspiration.

meanwhile at the studio this year we've had the fabulous pixie lott come by for some songwriting.voice sounding even better.

also collaborating at 'the swamp' were up and comer liam o'donnell,norwegian pop star lise karlsnes,songwriter ina wroldsen and noisettes drummer jamie morrison.

below you can see mads and pixie deep in creative thought...is it a hit? are we winning?





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friends 
our thoughts and best wishes go out to five a sider,webmaster and friend tony young who is recovering from an operation.you couldn't meet a more positive and life affirming person.get well soon tony.

pictured below are a couple of our other friends at 'the swamp' namely groove driver tom meadows and songwriter jon green.

tom is pleasuring himself with a delicious sepia toned rhythm on the premier 'royale' kit.

jon is currently wearing a gretsch black falcon whilst working in our new protools room "studio j-krunk"



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