On May 7th 2018 I will be sixty years old. It seems that each decade is some kind of landmark achievement and the more decades that go by the larger the gap is supposed to grow between you and your or anyone else’s youth. In my case obviously, married to a girl much younger than me, this simply isn’t true and the idea that people need to be approximately the same age to converse, to share a happy life together seems rather misguided. But that is another issue, reaching sixty […]
Anekdoten Gigs 2018
I will be performing with angular Swedish Progressive Rock masters Anekdoten in 2018, starting at the beginning of June in Italy and playing two shows, one in Milan and one in Rome before heading to Bergen in Norway later that week. In August we will be at the beautiful Château de Villersexel in France and later in the year we will be in Scandinavia with a show confirmed at the prestigious Nordic Music Days festival in Helsinki. This will be the first appearance in Finland for Anekdoten in 12 years […]
Spirit Level Record Store Day Photos
I hope everybody had a wonderful Record Store Day and got everything they wanted. I had to pay over the odds for David Sylvian’s Dead Bees On A Cake and ended up getting it twice in the frenzy of securing a copy. Many people told me they had found a copy of SPIRIT LEVEL – check out their photos: If you’d like to be included in this gallery, send your photos to olivia@martywillson-piper.com
US Tour 2018 – Gallery & Thank You’s
Live at the Cutting Room, New York City, 22/02/2018 Live at World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, 20/02/2018 Live at Colony, Woodstock, 20/02/2018 [Audio] High As A Kite, San Francisco, 13/02/2018 Gig Gallery THANK YOU to an amazing band: Olivia Willson-Piper (Violin, Cellolin & Backing Vocals) Don Piper (Acoustic Guitar & Backing Vocals) Hannah Moorhead (Bass & Backing Vocals) Patti Hood (Harp in Los Angeles) Rory Mackenzie (Drums in Los Angeles) Jonny Cragg (Drums in Seattle) And everyone who made this tour possible: John Bechtold Trevor & Tricia Boyd William Buras & […]
RECORD STORE DAY 2018: Spirit Level on Vinyl!
SPIRIT LEVEL ON VINYL!!! As Record Store Day approaches we are excited to announce the imminent re-release on clear vinyl of Marty’s 1992 album SPIRIT LEVEL through SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS out of North Carolina. Only previously available on CD and long deleted, the album comes with a gatefold sleeve and features lyrics and photographs taken from the original artwork (Photos by Håkan Lindell). This super limited release of 500 copies can only be purchased at participating stores on April 21st, 2018 and only in the USA. Stores listed here: http://recordstoreday.com/Stores http://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/9948 Spirit […]