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Johnny Marr Live at Maida Vale - BBC Radio 6

Johnny Marr Live at Maida Vale

I have to say Friday 03rd October was possibly the wierdestly exciting & odd day i have had followed by the bestest day on the Monday. Noticed on my emails at work several from BBC Radio 6...'why are radio 6 emailing me??' I pondered...to discover that a retweet i had randomly done for tickets to see Johnny Marr play at Maida Vale had amazingly got me picked ....to go and see Johnny play!! Oh my God! Deep joy and total amazement was swiftly followed by horror as a I remembered that do have a job...and that I teach on Mondays and so swanning off to London, albeit it to see your hero, was probably not an option...deep joy swiftly turned to deep misery!! so dejected, despondent left work....like Cinderalla...not going to the ball ...Johnny Marr gig!! ...then got this tweet:

.....now that's a special tweet!!

Now I do know I had not actually been personally picked by the man himself (though i do like to think so...perhaps...just maybe!!...no) but thought, however, it would be rude when Johnny Marr had picked ME not to go! (love this tweet!!)

So action stations - phoned work - immediate boss said yes, next step ask next boss - she wonderfully also said yes...so long as i can get cover for Mondays classes - for free or pay for it myself (eek) ...i got cover...amazing friend at work...now need to get to London without remortgaging the house for the cost of the train...and who to go with...was like mission impossible lasting hours, much distress. but after many hours...it worked - cover, train, friend...London here i come...and more importantly Johnny Marr at Maida Vale here i come!! .....

......car - train - taxi - dropped off by a very jealous taxi driver who asked where we were going and was sooo jealous when i said to see Johnny Marr play - well who wouldn't be. swanned up to door at Maida Vale studios saying 'I'm on the guest list' and was the first one to be let in...then watched the wonderful Johnny Marr play. First hearing of the brilliant 'Playland' album - really exciting. Was a brilliant morning - love seeing Johnny Marr play - love that guitar, the songs, the band.....Also saw my favourite radio DJ Shaun Keaveney and Lauren Laverne and all the the wonderful, historic Maida Vale studios - such an amazing experience.

Arrived home and watched it straight away on TV and even spotted myself!!

Thank you work, thank you BBC Radio 6 and thank you Johnny Marr. :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e6m38g#p0282ym0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9zU6WkBpIM

Set List on Maida Vale 3 on 6 Oct 2014 at BBC Maida Vale Studios, London

Speak Out Reach Out (6 Music Live at Maida Vale 2014)

Easy Money (6 Music Live at Maida Vale 2014)

Generate! Generate! (6 Music Live at Maida Vale 2014)

25 Hours (6 Music Live at Maida Vale 2014)

Candidate (6 Music Live at Maida Vale 2014)

Still Ill (6 Music Live at Maida Vale 2014)

Original byThe Smiths

Getting Away With It (6 Music Live at Maida Vale 2014)

Original byElectronic

Childhood - Wolverhampton Civic Hall (supporting Johnny Marr)

Childhood supporting Johnny Marr at Wolverhampton Civic Hall. Really excited about his as my absolute fav; Johnny Marr was being supported by another favourite band; Childhood - 2 amazing bands- same gig - that's what I call a good night! saw Childhood at Night & Day Cafe in Manchester - sooooo good. Didn't disappoint here - great band to support a Great band - as a big Johnny Marr fan saw them 3 times during Playland tour - Wolverhampton, Manchester Apollo and Leeds - brilliant. Cant wait to see Childhood again - fantastic songs, cool band.

Lewis Noble workshop - Leek School of Art.

October 02nd - Lucky to have Lewis Noble at college again for his annual workshop with the Foundation Degree in Creative Art & Design Practice students at Buxton & leek College. Working with year 1 Degree students he talked about his work and inspired them with his paintings. First stop Brough Park to do studies & make marks then back to the studio to work on these - students had a wonderful time. Always a fantastic & inspirational workshop.

LEWIS NOBLE

In a Landscape

The title for this exhibition comes from a piano sonata by the American composer John Cage. Although I make no claim to be a musical expert, to me it has a similar intention to evoke the complete experience of being outside in a landscape. In my case, specifically the Derbyshire landscape around my home near Ashbourne in the southern Peak District.

In this new body of paintings my aim is to project the atmosphere of landscape, the rolling hills, moorland and rivers in this particular part of the first and much loved National Park in England.

The process of building many layers of paint over time, eroding and repainting has echoes in the way the landscape has developed.

Many of these works are painted for the most part in situ and completed in the studio. By referring to the many small plein air paintings, sketches and collages that I make, this process allows me to keep a spontaneous and fresh feel to the work.

Although sometimes titled with an actual location, my work is not place specific or overtly pictorial, rather the essence of a place, conveying a landscape that is still evolving and with weather that is constantly changing. I attempt to walk the tightrope between representational and expressive painting.

Lewis Noble, April 2014