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Gainsborough Voices: Saying Yes…

Talk About The Passion… A few months ago I was sat in Spokes coffee shop in Gainsborough chatting to Nicola, the Gainsborough Town Manager, about the Lincolnshi...

There's something happening here...

https://www.gribbles.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Tomorrow.png There's been a lot of turbulence recently around many of the tools indie musicians use to pro...

Sunday Morning. Easy. A chilled morning playlist from gribbles.

A quick post from me to share a playlist I've put together with a small number of my more chilled tunes and ambience. Perfect for easing into Sunday Morning. Or...

Three Tune Tuesday - Oh I do like to be beside the b-side

Given I was a bit rubbish last week, and completely missed doing another ThreeTuneTuesday after folk were kind enough to rate my first post, I thought I'd bette...

My first Three Tune Tuesday post...week 86

After tripping over a post from @ablaze last week, I discovered ThreeTuneTuesdays. Me being me, I thought I'll have some of that! So here is my inaugural post. ...

Past Pastures past - new original music from gribbles

Intro My new 4-track EP is out and slowly propagating around various streaming services, so I though I'd take a bit of time out to introduce it to my fellow Hiv...

The best laid plans...

Two gifts Sarah got me for Xmas 2022. She knows me so well. Despite not making any resolutions (because experience shows that one is setting oneself up to fail ...

gribbles latest release - Australia EP #1 - Adelaide

You Jammy Bleeder! Back in 2019, I was lucky to have the opportunity to spend a significant amount of time over in Adelaide as part of my job. I sorted out an A...

Sunday night musings - My 'Studio'

I'm sat here yet again thinking about how to arrange my studio. I think it's a recurring thing with musicians. And for me I also think there's a little bit of p...

I think we've passed this tree before...

Time flies. I've lost count of how many times I've posted I've lost count of how many times I've (re) started blogging. Given I was posting stuff online in the ...

Pastoral Pyramids - gribbles upcoming release

My next release is an ep of three songs. They are all gentle pieces - and, to me, feel rooted in the countryside I know and love. Fields, clouds, woods. This wi...

gribbles' record collection listening chain #7

So, the inestimable Mr @nickyhavey was the lucky winner of the draw to choose the next record on from The Mobile's Drowning in Berlin. Nicky chose 21. Now, thos...

I am something more than ordinary man...

Every so often the wonderful Electronic Music Alliance releases a compilation album of exclusive tunes from various members. it's always a varied mix of electro...

What took you so long....?

Well. As most folk who have paid my wibblings on here a passing interst, you'll know that I'm a bit of a vinyl collector. Stemming from my love of music that st...

It doesn't even have a name...

I thought folk might be interested in this as a little insight into the gribbles creative process. Received wisdom is that you shouldn't share your stuff until ...

quiddity covers - politics schmolitics

As well as my solo stuff, I also make music as part of a duo called quiddity We're a very sporadic duo. It's all quite organic - when some unknown stars align w...

gribbles record collection listening chain #6

Welcome, welcome welcome. Welcome to the sixth instalment of our dip into my vinyl singles collection. @mimismartypants was the person randomly selected to choo...

[New Music] I thought I heard voices....?

One of the many delights of being a member of the Electronic Music Alliance are the collaboration opportunities with other cracking electronic musicians. My lat...

I could give up any time.....couldn't I?

Today I hit the 7000 mission milestone in Rising Star. I have a system, a fairly fixed approach to playing that runs through a pattern of missions and gets me a...

First live run through of a gribblytune...

I have an opportunity to do a session for an online radio show. Though it doesn't have to be live, I want to have a crack at playing and recording something liv...