ASHLEY HICKLIN

Live Footage of Ashley Hicklin & The Troubadours rehearsing new song "She Is Love" -Home Studios in Hamburg...

Just a quickie to say I have succumbed to twittering :)

It's official! We signed the final paperwork for our record deal with Ferryhouse Productions / Warner Music! All very exciting. There will be a signing video on-line shortly. 2010 is gonna be a fun year working with this team. Looking forward to touring the record, which is starting to sound wwwwwwicked. Franz Plasa is a musical genius!

Just finished another week in the studio in hamburg, we have seven songs down on our debut record. We're having fun with our crazy-ass producer Franz Plasa and his team. This is a video from the studio courtesy of Petra, thanku :)

Ashley Hicklin & The Troubadours - Recording Debut Album in Hamburg - PART 1

Ashley Hicklin & The Troubadours - "Blood On The Moors" - Live at Conincx Pop Festival (Holland)

Conincx Festival The Roadtrip

We've been really busy recording our album, but we've got a few days to chill, so here is a quick live video we shot last night on a handy-cam in the studio:

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This is a live recording from Hamburg of a brand new track written yesterday "This City Wears A Secret".

Video is a little rough but sound is okay for a "home" studio recording :)

Lyrics are ppppppretty, and were a joint effort between myself and Kim Sawford...

Enjoy!

This City Wears A Secret - Live From Hamburg..

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Lots coming up on the gigging front, all listed below. Really looking forward to playing in the flagship apple store on regents street  - come watch - City Showcase is the 7th, 8th and 9th of May this year. Many thanks for having me back it was ace last year :)      It's a big festival of fashion and music for London...

City Showcase

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We've also been asked to play a Cool festival in Holland with the full band - CONINCX POP FESTIVAL!!! Sounds amazing... Road trip, most of our band have never been to Holland before. I've told them it's just like the movies:

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I recently did some co-writing with an amazing singer from Holland called Airto Edmundo! Wow! He's like Stevie wonder meets Cullum, then they go for coffee with Paulo Nutini and John Legend, and they're served a few Lattes by James Morrison and then they all go play some records with corrinne bailey-rae - they sit and listen to john mayer and eat cakes. Great combo! Anyways, we wrote an amazing song called 'I Lost My Smile'... Check him out, he's the king of covers... Thanks to Lawrence Van De Eede for setting this session up - u da man! :)    

He makes Nutini look pathetic - This guy's got soul, real soul:  Airto Edmundo

Airto - Last request (Paolo Nutini)

GIG LIST - Come see us:

We have been settling in to Home Studios here in Hamburg. Franz Plasa and you lovely techy crew, if you are reading you are a lovely bunch and very accommodating, but if you make us try sour-crout juice ever again I will snip ever cable on your brand new swanky SSL desk  :)   Only, joking, it wasn't that bad, and hey my muscles feel a lot bigger:

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I have met some cool people while I have been here, including Tokio Hotel's manager and an amazing string arranger / player called Stephan Pintev. He works on all the major projects in germany when it comes to strings. My kinda guy :)
He is gonna work closely with me on my own album to make sure the Orchestral parts are tip top. We are using an amazing set of players...    

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Big big love to mathias for helping us move our stuff into our new house, and techy 'vitally' coz it was his birthday yesterday :)

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It has been a long time since I last posted! I have been stupendously busy:

A) I MOVED TO GERMANY!
I made the big move to Hamburg (Germany) to be closer to my record label team, producer and my publishing team. It has been a massive life changing experience so far, and my german is slowly getting better. I can even order a beer and schnitzel! Ha!  :)   Many thanks to my management for helping me move all my worldly belongings and my studio over yonder waters. It was a fun trip :)

B) I HAVE BEEN CO-WRITING ACROSS EUROPE!
I have been co-writing for other artists around europe which is all very exciting. I've had my first cut in Sweden which is amazing. I co-write five songs for the album including 2 of the artist's singles - The album is looking like it's gonna go platinum and the first single comes out next week and should hit the number one spot fingers crossed!!! Massive thanks to Marten and Lina in Stockholm for being such good hosts and amazing writers. U r ace :)

SWEDEN WAS COLD!!!

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I have also been working in Belgium with a great little team of crazy-ass EMI writers (big shout to Ginger and Jerry!)... Ginger is a very successful american songwriter/artist and jereon is a songwriter and producer extrodanaire who recently co-produced the new 'Novastar' album 'Bangor'. If you've not heard it you haven't lived, it's massive over there and in Holland. Check it out by clicking here: NOVASTAR   The strings are creamyyyyyyyyyyy arranged by Bob Porter :)

We spent a week in Belgium and wrote some amazing tracks for loads of projects, including the music for the 12th World Championships in Athletics held in Berlin this year. It's shown in 192 countries. Watch it!!!

BELGIUM IN THE STUDIOS - they had some amazing mics and fender geeetars - i fell in love with a mustang:

My next stop is Denmark, I am heading out there to do some more co-writes for a few different european and maybe even far eastern projects too. It's still pretty hard to believe that I am doing my dream job and getting paid for it, going from country to country writing for other people. Mental, it's far far away from serving pints of carling to prats in the scrubbiest pub in East London's Bethnal Green. thankyou to anyone and everyone who has made this dream possible, you have changed my little world for the better. I hope to fill your ears full of poptastic music :) 

Mashley xx