Photo: Ani McNeice
www.animcneice.co.uk
It’s finished up not exactly as original ly intended, because although I did end up playing most instruments, my attempts at playing bass and drums failed miserably, which resulted in me sacking myself about half way through the process!
I invited the
very lovely Hugh Whitaker (who was in the legendary Housemartins) to come and play drums for me, and one of my oldest and dearest
friends, Jon Short, who I played with as a duo for a lot of years, and who features on two of the three Waking the Witch albums, agreed to play double bass. I play acoustic guitar, mandolin, glockenspiel, xylophone and a bit of percussion, but it’s quite a sparse album I think. Uncluttered. Tere are ten songs on it – not actually all about angels and/or guitars specifically(!) but there are
loose references all the way through! That happened by accident! I hadn’t realised that I’d done that until quite near the end!
As my voice is my main instrument, I tried to make the album as interesting as possible vocally. For five years I managed and played in the acoustic female group Waking the Witch, who had a reputation for delivering
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