Poster now with added Caro. Last time I looked there were 13 tickets left. Just sayin like. bx Read more →

Good people of Edinburgh and beyond-thank you very much to everyone who has bought a ticket for the Voodoo Rooms gig. We have now reached the mythical, promised land of breaking even. Everything from here on in will be sinful capitalist profit. Mwahahaha. More good news-healthy ticket sales mean the American Bar will be now be open for the gig.… Read more →

Wow your pals at the Xmas party with a limited edition Ani t-shirt and tote bag, available here at Jake’s Vinyl. When they’re gone, they’re gone! Read more →

Album launch #2- The Eastern Front. A double album needs a double launch. Twice the fun. Full band live show in beautiful Edinburgh. Following a sold out Glasgow show, we proudly present part 2 of Operation Internation’s debut into the world. Tickets here All welcome. Message ends. Read more →

“The end is where we start from.”  T.S. Eliot The anthem revisited, this time reimagined as a jolly sing song down at the brigadier’s mess. Let us drink and be merry. Tomorrow, we begin again. A unit of the Bulgarian International Brigade, 1937 (photographer unknown). Read more →

“…and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” – T.S. Eliot It’s Song #18 and we’re getting on a bit now.  Time to lighten the tone with a song for the still game. When recording this my guiding principle was- what would Hinge and Bracket… Read more →

Eulogy or rebirth, I’m not entirely sure, but a welcome breathing space before whatever comes next. From the wreckage of New America, a secular spiritual sung a cappella by the wonderful Glasgow School of Art Choir, led by the exceptional talent of Jamie Sansbury. Hats off and our warmest thanks to Jamie and the choir for their work and generosity… Read more →

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald New America is music as schizophrenia, swinging back and forth somewhere between revivalist devotional and Jimi Hendrix shredding the Star Spangled Banner.  The brave pioneer spirit which built… Read more →

For friends, family, fans… and one week ahead of its full release…”Operation Internation” is available to listen, stream, download and order copies now, only on our Bandcamp site here- https://anewinternational.bandcamp.com/…/operation… It’s taken around 17 years from initial inspiration to final recording, during which time it often felt like wrestling with an octopus.  Anyway, whatever my excuses may be, lack of… Read more →

I first properly listened to Tango downstairs in Blackfriars at the wonderful Tango Bar.  It felt like stumbling into a meeting of a secret society; a little corner of Buenos Aires in a Glasgow basement.  I was also there looking on starry-eyed one night as the Bandoneonista Carlos Becú performed Piazzolla’s “Adios Nonino” live. The bandoneón itself looked fiendishly difficult.… Read more →