The end of an Enormous music ride

by Enormous on November 1, 2011

Enormous is over. The music has stopped. The musicians involved have all gone back to their own projects leaving this website with one last purpose. To bid everyone a fond farewell and channel this website’s ample amount of readers into the arms of the musicians who made Enormous what it is and who now continue on their own musical journeys. Amazing as it may sound, this website still gets over 1,200 visitors every day without fail, most of whom are looking for one thing and one thing only.

Music.

Music, music and more music.

So, in no particular order…

Paul Varga. Paul Varga continues to work as one half of the Enormous Horns, the horn section that Enormous helped to launch, and is also available as a freelance saxophonist, transcriber and arranger. Paul also continue to work on a number of music projects with Ashley Morgan.

Travis Peters. Enormous crashed just a few months after diminutive pianist and organ handler Travis joined our then merry band of musicians. He’d hardly had time to set up his organ when the band came crashing down around his ears. Travis jumped ship and found a new home with Wwolves. The band, not the football team.

Graham Boffey. Still drumming in the corner where he can be heard for miles and miles.

Ashley Morgan. Enormous was never Ashley Morgan’s first love, musical or otherwise. Ashley Morgan’s own music always came first and that is probably how it will always be. Some people just aren’t cut out to be in other people’s bands because they can only hear their own music. Ashley Morgan is one of those people. Follow Ashley Morgan’s music career at ashleymorgan.com.

Mike Ridley-Dash. “I told you we should have hired the other guy”. Those were Ashley’s last words regarding Mr. Ridley-Dash and it’s safe to say that there was no love lost between the two of them. Musically and professionally they disagreed. And that’s an understatement. Mike continues to play and we all wish him well with his future endeavours musical or otherwise.

Davy Lawrence. Unknown. Missing in action. Napoleon Fantastic is dead, long live…?

But what about the music, what about the music?

Never fear, we hear your cry. Did you really think we were going to just flush over 5 studio albums of material down the lavatory? Did you really think we that musically stupid?

The Enormous music, the music of Davy Lawrence, Steve O’Toole, Graham Boffey, David Graham, Paul Varga and Ashley morgan. That music.

It’s coming.

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New Metal TDK MA-X 90 Cassette stock

by Enormous on August 6, 2011

A batch of 200 TDK MA-X 90 cassette tapes arrived today. Back ordered recordings will be completed over the next 48 hours and deliveries will resume on Monday the 8th of August.

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New vinyl stock

by Enormous on July 8, 2011

New stock of all vinyl releases will arrive in independent record shops across the country from Monday the 11th of July 2011.

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Email 2

by Enormous on July 2, 2011

100% of the email lost during the transition away from Gmail and Google Apps has been recovered and all email is now being received correctly and securely.

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Email

by Enormous on June 27, 2011

ashleymorgan.com has recently switched from Gmail / Google apps to a more stable and secure email platform. Some emails may have bounced and not been delivered during the switch. If your have received a bounced message please resend your email.

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Ashley Morgan recordings archive

by Enormous on June 5, 2011

Ashley Morgan made a lot of recordings over the years and today Steve and I finished archiving them all, up until today’s date, on a number of formats including tape and mini-disc. Ashley Morgan had a habit of recording everything he ever did on mini-disc so this was a long process!

Most of the recordings were intact so the process was pretty easy once we had figured out how to get all of the necessary pieces of equipment to talk to each other.

Some of these recordings are going to be remastered for vinyl distribution but the majority have been catalogued and archived purely for personal reasons. While this process will almost certainly be part of Ashley’s move to analogue it’s also an interesting study in how to archive audio in a number of formats and a valuable lesson for any studio engineer, old or new.

Ashley, you owe us a big drink!

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New jazz stuff!

by Enormous on June 3, 2011

A whole box of jazz stuff arrived today and I have no idea what it’s for. I say jazz stuff, but I don’t really know, it’s all clip on microphones and stuff like that, stuff that jazz musicians use. You know the sort of thing. Probably another one of Ashley Morgan’s record label sponsorship deals that means I’m going to go and have to put another little sticker on my amp.

I’ll telephone Ashley to see if he has any idea about the delivery. If he doesn’t come round and help me before 4.00pm I’ll stick it all on eBay.

Don’t worry. I’m joking, I’m joking…

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