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Hello and welcome to the "Stoke the Fire" Podcast.

Stoke the fire is a brand new event in London bringing you Inspirational Words, performance and music from an array of talented artists from the UK and beyond. There are no stylistic limitations and the emphasis is on new ideas and work.

Stoke the fire is brought to you by musician friendly production company Avocado Music Productions (www.avocadomusic.com) where it's quality of art and not quantity of money that counts, and the event is hosted by composer and performer Bird Radio, AKA Mikey Kirkpatrick, that's me. (www.birdradio.co.uk)

This monthly event was launched on 13th November 2011 at the Ryan's Bar Basement, Stoke Newington, London, where the landlord Jed is very supportive of his local community of artists. The idea came I heard about Vaughan Williams' afternoon tea set  meetings with artists at the turn of the 20th Century where they shared new work and philosophies.

The Stoke the Fire series of events is about open community and sharing, so should you have any new performance projects you are looking to share with an open-minded and respectful audience, just contact me through www.avocadomusic.com or www.birdradio.co.uk

This podcast is a recording of the first event and features performances by the Pocket Guerilla Orchestra, Kate Ryder, U'mau, Chiara Ambrosio, Sexton Ming as Jude Hagg, Emannuel Spinelli and Roger Redgate, Nicholas McArthur and three piece Eigenharp band Bang Stroke Blow. Be warned there is some explicit material on this podcast!

The timings are as follows:

1:45 Pocket Guerilla Orchestra Piece 1 (www.jameshesford.com)

3:22 Kate Ryder (www.kateryder.co.uk)

26:50 U'mau (www.umau.com)

43:18 Pocket Guerilla Orchestra Piece 2 (www.jameshesford.com)

44:26 Chiara Ambrosio (www.acuriousroom.com)

53:36 Sexton Ming as Jude Hagg (www.sextonming.co.uk)

1:06:11 Roger Redgate & Emannuel Spinelli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Redgate) (www.emalorien.com)

1:22:48 Pocket Guerilla Orchestra Piece 3 (www.jameshesford.com)

1:24:05 Nicholas McArthur (www.nicholasmcarthur.com)

1:31:55 Bang Stroke Blow (http://soundcloud.com/bangstrokeblow)

Stoke the Fire Theme Music by Mikey Kirkpatrick (Bird Radio) and Jeremy Creighton Herbert

Thanks for listening and thank you to all those who took part and came to event. See you at the next one!

www.avocadomusic.com

Next Event 5th February 2012 at Ryan's Bar Basement, Stoke Newington, London. Lineup TBA soon!

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This episode sees the re-release of A*M~P's 2008 album COMPASS, a four hand prepared piano album with original improvisations and developed tracks with choir, electronics and more. We discuss the people, places, fun, fear and philosophies involved with this project. There are magnetic fields, string quartets and choirs recorded in bedrooms, various travels, coins scraping, and collisions with artists including Inua Ellams, Matt Winkworth, Lyanna Austin, James Hesford, Chiara Ambrosio, Angela Morray Jones, Yann Bernard...

We hope you enjoy our memories and philosophies on this album. Relevant links are:

Digital inlay with artwork and animations: www.compassalbum.com

Staright forward download and listen: http://avocadomusic.bandcamp.com/album/compass-download-for-free

Our podcast chat about the album and philosophies: http://avocadomusic.podbean.com/

The "Back of Beyond" short film by Chiara Ambrosio: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9h1rt_back-of-beyond-a-m-p_music

Thanks for listening, and see you next time!

Mikey and Jeremy

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Welcome and thanks for listening to episode 15 of the Avocado Music Podcast. This is a special episode from London - Mikey speaks with composer James Hesford about his premiere of two pieces for 12 Grand Pianos at The Clore Ball Room, Royal Festival Hall, London, 5:30pm and 6:30pm on Saturday 21st May 2011. The performances are just 10 minutes long, and they're free! James also composes for and directs the Working Classical Music Orchestra, Pocket Geurilla Orchestra and Cellorhythmics. All this and much more in the podcast.

He has a 12 strong ensemble of pianists featuring Kate Ryder, Roger Redgate, Caroline Rawlinson, Tim Richards, Matt Winkworth, Catherine Kontz, James Graham, Adam Sharp, Tessa Grobel, Yeu-Meng Chan, Jack Hurst and Timothy Phillips.

In the podcast we talk a bit about James' life, his commitment to composition and some of the processes behind his 12 musician circle pieces. You can hear more of his work at www.jameshesford.com

Enjoy, and hope to see you on Saturday! If you can't make it, there will be some film footage available soon.

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Back in 2005 A*M~P (Mikey and Jeremy) released their second album "here there but somewhere". Now we re-release it and go into to detail about the album, with stories about the recording and creative process, inspiration and concept behind our work. You can listen to and buy the album in full at avocadomusic.bandcamp.com.

Thanks for listening, we'll be back with more very soon! Next re-release is COMPASS in August.

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Welcome to episode 13 of our podcast. In the lead up to the release of The Stories of Rust on 1st May 2011, Jeremy speaks with filmmaker and illustrator Chiara Ambrosio about her work on the illustrations and film for the book...plus some tales of camping, meals on wheels and how creative partnerships over distance really can work for the best. Thanks for listening!

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Welcome and thank you for listening to episode 12 of the Avocado Music Podcast. In this episode we relaunch A*M~P's first album Nothing Escapes His Eye, based on the book "The Tower at the Edge of the World" by William Heinesen. We play extracts from the album and talk about some of our experiences when visiting there along with a team of Artists.

The 17 track album is available as a digital download from http://avocadomusic.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-escapes-his-eye

Alternatively, you can order a hardcopy from http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/avocadoprod

In April 2011 we will relaunch A*M~P's second album Here There But Somewhere.

Thank you for listening!

Avocado Music Productions

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Thank you for tuning into the Avocado Music Podcast. This episode features composer/performer Matt Winkworth talking about his new EP "CBT". Matt talks about his sources of inspiration, and becoming a full-time musician. Since recording this podcast, "Sea" has already been broadcast on BBC Radio, and Matt has been booked for more great gigs, including supporting Sam Amidon in November. You can find out more at www.mattwinkworth.co.uk and www.myspace.com/mattwinkworth.

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Welcome to episode 10 of the Avocado Music Podcast. We are very happy to have sound artist Mark Peter Wright (not to be confused with footballer Mark Wright) in the Golden Valley for the podcast challenge. Jeremy and Mark talk about a remarkable year of work for Mark; his track Bare Brittle Bones on The Stories of Rust, his PRS Radio 3 award, his book A Quiet Reverie and recent CD release Inanimate Life. He talks about using your ears, and also talks about his monthly online magazine Ear Room http://earroom.wordpress.com/.

All of Mark Peter Wright's releases and info can be accessed through his website www.markpeterwright.com.

Next up in episode 11 is Matt Winkworth - you can hear him talk about his leap of faith and extracts from his new demo CBT.

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Sorry! A month late! But to make up for it this will be a double bill - in this episode Mikey and Jeremy discuss the unmentionable, along with the highly mentionable Haruko Motohashi, Matt Winkworth, Toby Wainwright Johns, The Stories of Rust and finally Mark Peter Wright (who is featured on episode 10). This episode is full of previously unheard soundclips and news! Please don't forget you can subscribe to this podcast and have them delievered direct to you - just click on your preferred program over there on the left. Enjoy.

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Hello and welcome to our 8th episode in our podcast series.

Chiara Ambrosio joins Mikey and Jeremy in The Golden Valley to work on her timelapse film for The Stories of Rust. We talk in detail about the concept and ideas behind the track New Crop Rotations. Also news on Haruko and Masachi's album (now available on avocadomusic.com), Matt Winkworth, Ellie Lonsdale, Toby Wainwright Johns and Catherine Hughes.

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