NORTHERN LIGHTS

Just 5 days till the tour and I'm excited about getting out of warm sunny London for a while and seeing ENGLAND! It isn’t so different from London, but it is totally different...

People come to London to work hard and play hard. Most don’t have serious intentions to spend their lives here. If you don’t have a need to be directly connected to the arts culture offered here, I find that you are likely to do the sensible thing eventually and move to a different place...

A place that isn’t so expensive, polluted, crime ridden and generally stressed out. Actually it seems to me there are not a lot of great bands that germinate from London or big cities like New York and LA. Most classic bands come from outside of these major music industry big cities because it is so hard to find time in London to do anything but pay bills...

So I am gonna give a sigh of relief as soon as we hit that M1 carriageway leading to the Northern lights. Away from a town were people appear to look like they are in a magazine or on smack. Peoples' complexions look clearer to me who live away from big cities...

But we will be going to some big cities. One big place I’ve never been is Scotland. We are playing Glasgow! That feels like a different country. Probably because it is...

First is Newcastle this Sunday Nov 14th at The Tyne. Sounds like an intimate pub like venue. I haven’t seen Newcastle for 20 years, and I have been told it’s gone from grimey industrial to modern metropolis! It used to be a deadly beautiful grey is my memory...

Then Glasgow at the Halt Bar Nov 15th. I feel like I know exactly how Scotland will smell - very psychedelic...

Then the big gig at Manchester’s Night & Day Nov 16th. This is Manchester’s hottest spot so we are excited about playing there...

Then to Liverpool at Melo Melo Nov 17th. I have family in Liverpool who I haven’t connected with in 5 years, and they say they are coming!

Then back South for The Gladstone in London on Nov 18th. This is truly coming home cause I live around the corner. It is the best music bar in the world!

A couple of days off and we are playing in Birmingham Nov 21st. We are playing at the Chaos Acoustic Club The Old Moseley Arms. We have played in Brum a few times, but never have I seen Moseley, which is supposed to be the hip part of town...

Then on Nov 22nd we finish in Oxford at Far From The Madding Crowd. A very cool town to finish in. And I think my daughter Naomi will be there...

Hope you will too.

Art x

You can find all the venue details and other info on the tour here. Most of the shows are free entry!

PINK TOES

Pink Toes, the musical theatre piece based around songs I have written, is a fragile masterpiece staring Alicia Cubells and written by David Ncube...

We are filming a 'secret' performance of it this Monday, November 8th in London at The 12 Bar Club on Denmark St WC2 8NL This will also be somewhat of a warm up gig for the coming DAVID GARSIDE/ART TERRY UK TOUR which begins on November 14th... http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148984358475404

I wrote in an earlier blog that the best songs often tend to be the sad ones. Pink Toes investigates this phenomenon via music and performance. Afro Dave Ncube’s insight into the music (which is mainly taken from the Anutha Kinda Brotha album) is poignant. His script follows a relationship and how it is disconnected and connected not only from and to the songs but what is actually surrounding us in our singular and shared relationships...

Pink Toes explores the dreams of couples, male and female, rich, not so rich and poor, sexual and non-sexual, sane and mentally ill, promiscuous and platonic, co-habiting and living apart, married and un-married, present, past and future...

It asks the question of us all - Can we find away to be together? Since this is what everyone secretly or openly truly wants...

I have tried to write this song over and over. It took Alicia and David to bring it to life.