Hello Sal Army. I hope you're all well and happy in 2013
Even
though we've split up as a band for now, that isn't the end of the musical
journey. Oh no no no. So... what the devil is going on you ask? Well, my friends, I shall tell you. In 2012 I
used the extra time I had from the lack of Sal rehearsals to write a solo album! Woot Woot! It's being recorded and produced with the
help of the faithful boys from Sal, my dear friends Noog (producer,
guitarist, songwriter, musical genius) and Saunders (kick arse bass
player) along with James Kennedy (rock god, singer, songwriter of kyshera.com) and Richard Holley (songwriter, keyboard player extraordinaire) and the voice of Dr Bernard Kane (composer, viola player extraordinaire) and Burning Red (Creative problem solvers).
I
don't have an album sleeve yet, so I'd like to say my thank you's to
these guys here, because without them I couldn't have made my vision a
reality, and thanks to everyone else helping me along the way.
Now for more exciting news. Last week I found a band to make the album a live experience! Yay! They're truly awesome, and I will introduce them to you very soon. We jammed for the second time last weekend and the songs are sounding HUGE already. I'm going to be booking live dates for March and a bit of a showcase of the new material, which is going to RAWK!
As fans of Sal I'm hoping you'll like the new tunes and will come and join 'Cat's Army' and become a part of my story.
Check out the tunes on acatsouthallproduct.com
Join me on Twitter here
And if you like what you hear. Like me Facebook Group here
I'm looking forward to seeing you all soon at a gig near you :o)
Peace, Love and Rock and Roll
Cat
x
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
The Story Begins
Hello lovely people,
I just wanted to reassure you that I haven't forgotten you. Oh no no no, on the contrary..
Now the last thing you were told is that I am working on a Solo album, well this is indeed true ;)
I am actually working on an exciting concoction for you to get your teeth into :) a wonderful colourful concept along with my partner in crime and producer extraordinaire Noog. Now I'm not quite ready to share any detail with you at the moment, but in the very near future you can expect regular updates on how the project is coming along, a new website will be set up along with new facebook and twitter pages so you can keep in the loop. There will be plenty of sneaky snippets from the work going on. I'm working with an exciting team of artists to make this concept a reality, so it's going to be ex.....ci........ting.
Loads of love
Cat x
I just wanted to reassure you that I haven't forgotten you. Oh no no no, on the contrary..
Now the last thing you were told is that I am working on a Solo album, well this is indeed true ;)
I am actually working on an exciting concoction for you to get your teeth into :) a wonderful colourful concept along with my partner in crime and producer extraordinaire Noog. Now I'm not quite ready to share any detail with you at the moment, but in the very near future you can expect regular updates on how the project is coming along, a new website will be set up along with new facebook and twitter pages so you can keep in the loop. There will be plenty of sneaky snippets from the work going on. I'm working with an exciting team of artists to make this concept a reality, so it's going to be ex.....ci........ting.
Loads of love
Cat x
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Update
The last time I updated you all it was all good news about writing the 3rd album, but unfortunately this update is a less happy one (assuming if you like us.... and if you don't, why are you reading our blog?!).
So here it is... Due to many pressures inside and outside of the band we've decided to put the album writing on hold, and ultimately Sal. This isn't a "we're splitting up" notice, although at the moment it's difficult to see a situation where it would be worth us getting back together.
So I'd just like to say a HOOOOOOOOOOOOOGE thank you to everyone who's supported and helped us over our many years of existence.
We salute you!
This doesn't mean we've all died, and will probably work on other projects so we'll keep you updated when these things happen.... Like Cat's solo album she's currently writing!!!!
Yep, you can't keep our Catrin Wyn down and she's penning a concept album which is very excited about... and it's sounding pretty awesome if I do say so myself.
More details will follow when we have them.
Noog
So here it is... Due to many pressures inside and outside of the band we've decided to put the album writing on hold, and ultimately Sal. This isn't a "we're splitting up" notice, although at the moment it's difficult to see a situation where it would be worth us getting back together.
So I'd just like to say a HOOOOOOOOOOOOOGE thank you to everyone who's supported and helped us over our many years of existence.
We salute you!
This doesn't mean we've all died, and will probably work on other projects so we'll keep you updated when these things happen.... Like Cat's solo album she's currently writing!!!!
Yep, you can't keep our Catrin Wyn down and she's penning a concept album which is very excited about... and it's sounding pretty awesome if I do say so myself.
More details will follow when we have them.
Noog
Saturday, 1 January 2011
Happy new year from SAL
So what can you expect this year from SAL? 2010 was a quiet year for us as a band due to all sorts of "life" things happening (don't you hate it when life get's in the way of your music?), but Cat certainly made up for our collective "lack of anything" with work on the Manic's new album and appearances on numerous TV shows.
Well the SAL news is we're about 6 songs deep into our 3rd album, and it's already sounding a bit special.
"Yeah, you would say that" I hear you say? Well maybe you're right, but in this instance, I shit you not, these songs are the best songs we've written EVER!
We'll keep you informed of our progress, but until then have a brill beginning to 2011!
Noog x
Well the SAL news is we're about 6 songs deep into our 3rd album, and it's already sounding a bit special.
"Yeah, you would say that" I hear you say? Well maybe you're right, but in this instance, I shit you not, these songs are the best songs we've written EVER!
We'll keep you informed of our progress, but until then have a brill beginning to 2011!
Noog x
Monday, 15 November 2010
New Live Music Videos
Woo hoo! We have some new Sal live footage up on our youtube channel
Courtesy of our friends Chris Phillips and Dai Hill of DogDay Films who did an awesome job of
capturing the live show and editing it.
A big thank you to our friend Craig Chapman who hasworked his magic and uploaded the
separate tracks for us.
Enjoy!
X
Courtesy of our friends Chris Phillips and Dai Hill of DogDay Films who did an awesome job of
capturing the live show and editing it.
A big thank you to our friend Craig Chapman who hasworked his magic and uploaded the
separate tracks for us.
Enjoy!
X
Sunday, 26 September 2010
Later with Jools Holland
So... what have Sal been up to this year you ask? well it may seem quite to you but behind the scenes it's all been happening. We've been writing songs and lyrics for the new album, exciting in itself, but also Cat was on Jools Holland's 250th Anniversary show with The Manic Street Preachers! woo hoo. Our girl arranged vocals for 4 of the tracks on the new number 1 album 'Postcards from a Young Man'. Check out 'Some Kind of Nothingness' Here and the title track Here Look out for the Official Charts tonight, here's to 'Postcards..' being Number 1.
Later :)
Sal x
Later :)
Sal x
Rhondda Sound Beach Party!
Hello Friends of Sal,
We haven't had a chance to post an update in a while, but we thought it's time we did and let you know what's going on at the Sal camp :)
Firstly I want to mention our awesome gig at The Green Rooms in Treforest last Friday. We've never played there before and it was a great place, if you haven't been there yet you should go along. It was quite a surreal night as we played to the same audience many years ago when we released the first album and did a tour of schools in the valleys. There was one school where it all went horribly wrong. Picture the scene....
The school had set out chairs for all the kids to sit down to watch the gig, now as you know we're not a 'sit down and watch' band, so before you know it chairs were being flung aside and swarms of kids were moshing like crazy! ha ha. Anyway....we had this great Sal graffiti wall at the time, a way for everyone to be a part of the tour and sign and get their messages on it. So....a great idea, or so we thought at the time, turned out to be a very bad move! As the moshers were jumping, headbanging, diving, twirling, flying all over the place, the wall comes tumbling down! argggggghhhhhhhh, I'll never forget the moment. Someone landed under it, oh no. All the teachers came running over, there was shouting and panic, but rest assured folks, nobody was hurt. But we went down in history in that school.
Back to present day at The Green Rooms, these kids are now grown up and off to university and remembered us and the whole day. Ah, Awesome!
I have more news coming up....
Sal x
We haven't had a chance to post an update in a while, but we thought it's time we did and let you know what's going on at the Sal camp :)
Firstly I want to mention our awesome gig at The Green Rooms in Treforest last Friday. We've never played there before and it was a great place, if you haven't been there yet you should go along. It was quite a surreal night as we played to the same audience many years ago when we released the first album and did a tour of schools in the valleys. There was one school where it all went horribly wrong. Picture the scene....
The school had set out chairs for all the kids to sit down to watch the gig, now as you know we're not a 'sit down and watch' band, so before you know it chairs were being flung aside and swarms of kids were moshing like crazy! ha ha. Anyway....we had this great Sal graffiti wall at the time, a way for everyone to be a part of the tour and sign and get their messages on it. So....a great idea, or so we thought at the time, turned out to be a very bad move! As the moshers were jumping, headbanging, diving, twirling, flying all over the place, the wall comes tumbling down! argggggghhhhhhhh, I'll never forget the moment. Someone landed under it, oh no. All the teachers came running over, there was shouting and panic, but rest assured folks, nobody was hurt. But we went down in history in that school.
Back to present day at The Green Rooms, these kids are now grown up and off to university and remembered us and the whole day. Ah, Awesome!
I have more news coming up....
Sal x
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