Kenny Gilmore

As you may or may not know, there is a new facebook website called the yellowglasses.

www.facebook.com/YellowGlasses

These guys come out of Madrid and their deal is that they travel around Europe making intimate musical interviews with upcoming musicians in the vogue of the new ´Tallest man in the world´ type couch recording. I think they will be big. Well I met them in Porto and after a coffee and a sandwich in the French patisserie near the sea I guested in with an artist called Chris Green who comes out of London. The feel of these recordings is ultra informal. They are merely to take the viewer into the ordinary lives of musicians so they can watch them composing, jamming and rehearsing.

Quite a cool idea I hope you agree – check it out!

Photograph by Melissa Mazarella

Dear friends,

thanks for your support this past month. I have attached a live clip taken from the sound desk from our February gig in Leca de Palmeira ‘ freezing in February’ we should call it, the jam was coming out pretty good just something for you to remember those that were there.

I have also attached an awesome photo taken by a young Californian girl called Melissa Mazarella, of our gig in the painfully hip ‘Cafe Altar’ on Ceidofeita.

I cut a solo song this month called hero is gone, its a real heart on the sleeve tribute to fallen idols everywhere but the guitar style is a cross of malawian and american folk, the chichew lyrics translate roughly ‘ don’t mourn now he is already passed, i recognise your mask of sadness well’ this is version one, also attached it has a real raw sound as i literally just played the whole thing into a microphone just like bob marley did redemption song one Wednesday night at azevedo studios in matosinhos. listen to this one in your car when you are coming back from the mountains.

ok important dates for march:

5th March youtube showcase: I am featuring on a youtube showcase called Yellow Sunglasses I am going to feature a new acoustic song I wrote called ‘colour-blind’
18th March birthday gig at DooBop bar in Espinho, 11pm start, 57 Rua 2
Yes it is my birthday, and my mother is going to be the guest of honour all the way from Malawi
26th March kenny Gilmore Band at Breyner 85, 11pm start, 85 rua de breyner, Porto ( I am going to bring back something special for this show from Morroco I am going there to learn some North African desert music in early March)

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Michael Hawkins is an artist from New Zealand who has a history of
live action painting collaborations with musicians. Following our
unlikely meeting in the Douoro valley in Portugal we have begun to
work together, and will be staging a series of public performances
under the assumed stage names ‘The Kiwi and the Banana’. The first one
of this kind was a very private affair in a luscious garden hidden in
the artistic quarter of Porto, using only one speaker for sound and a
handful of trusted friends to hold the painting frame up! The paint
flew and an entirely improvised set with some guest musos from the
Ismae School of Music ensued…from snippets of James Brown to tribal
beats to bossa nova and blues, as we changed styles as the paint
changed colours. Afterwards we sat in the beautiful afternoon sun and
drank port wine and realised how good life can be in the Iberian
peninsula. Our first public show of the Kiwi and The banana will take
place on the 19th of July, address to be confirmed.