Ashley Morgan

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 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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Ashley Morgan, jazz musician, jazz trumpet player and record label owner is now the proud owner of what we in the old school music business (I’m showing my age there, sorry about that readers) call a catalogue.

Ashley Morgan has spent months in the studio (with help from yours truly, studio engineer to the stars) getting everything ready before sending it off to the vinyl monkeys who handle the kind of stuff that mere studio engineers can’t do.

To order any of Ashley Morgan’s jazz records click here and get in touch with him.

p.s I almost forgot, please don’t keep sending us email about other Ashley Morgans. There are plenty of Ashley Morgans on the web, including that blasted Lady Gaga tribute act.

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I just realised that I made a pun in my last post but didn’t make the most of it.

I said that Big Arena Records (the label that I set up with Ashley Morgan and Paul Varga all those years ago) following the lead of Ashley Morgan’s other record labels and going analogue. I then went on to say that Audrey was being employed as chief stamp licker.

Audrey is a dog.

Following the lead.

Get it?

I’ll get my coat and return with other record label and dog inspired puns.

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Big Arena Records, the independent record label started by yours truly along with Ashley Morgan and Paul Varga has just recruited its latest member.

Audrey.

Big Arena Records has followed the lead of Ashley Morgan’s other record labels and gone analogue, leading us back into a world that we are much more familiar and comfortable with.

Audrey’s role is chief stamp licker, a job that she relishes and one that is very important in this new analogue age we are going back to.

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447 Records and 7611 Records

by Enormous on April 26, 2011

447 Records and 7611 Records are now analogue only record labels. All music is now exclusively available on vinyl and cassette. Digital is fake. Analogue is real.

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There are many people online called Ashley Morgan. There are lots and lots of Ashley Morgans on the web. LOTS of Ashley Morgans. Ever since writing that post about how I hated Lady Gaga and how I think that tribute acts are the work of the devil I have had hate mail from people asking me why I don’t like the trumpet player in my own band.

Hello internet people. Please stop being so bloody stupid.

Of all the Ashley Morgans out there, our Ashley Morgan is a British jazz musician and owns and runs a record label (well, a couple of record labels actually, but that’s another story) and one of the other Ashley Morgans is a Lady Gaga tribute singer, presumably in drag, I don’t know, I haven’t checked.

Other Ashley Morgans that I found online include a lawyer, a carpenter, a tailor, a recruitment consultant and someone who appears to cut their own hair.

They are not all the same person.

Thank you and goodnight.

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