The last couple of weeks have been pretty busy but really fun - here's a quick overview. The Swinging Magpies played at the last of this season's swing dancing event, Salty Mondays, at the Far Rockaway in Shoreditch - this is an awesome venue where lots of really good swing dancers come out to play.. It was a fun and high energy event! I had photos taken with the awesome London based photographer Ion Paciu - there are more to come but here's one for now. He's brilliant and does a range of photography including wildlife photography, check out some of his photos online! I did a couple of notable function gigs: one at chef Raymond Le Blanc's beautiful countryside hotel in Oxford, Le Manoir with
The Cygnus Flare gig at Pizza Express Soho last week was definitely our best so far - and we got to play to a packed audience, thanks so much to everyone who came along. Here are links to some videos from the gig: I've otherwise been doing some other varied projects over the last couple of weeks, including playing with Pete and Sue Boulter doing some blues gigs at Ain't Nothing But The Blues bar in Soho (and learning lots of new blues repertoire), some orchestral music, and have started working with two groups which I'll be playing with at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August.
