friends 
our thoughts and best wishes go out to five a sider,webmaster and friend tony young who is recovering from an operation.you couldn't meet a more positive and life affirming person.get well soon tony.

pictured below are a couple of our other friends at 'the swamp' namely groove driver tom meadows and songwriter jon green.

tom is pleasuring himself with a delicious sepia toned rhythm on the premier 'royale' kit.

jon is currently wearing a gretsch black falcon whilst working in our new protools room "studio j-krunk"



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happy christmas from the swamp 



Me,Joe Kentish (A&R Pixie Lott) and Mads...I look like a short arse but those other two are actually giants.


According to Nielsen Music Control, Pixie Lott is the only UK or International recording artist of the last 10 years to have their debut three singles chart at Number 1 in the UK Airplay Chart.

Melody and lyrics...a super talented singer...it's that simple.

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cry me out 
pixie tops the airplay chart with our song 'cry me out'.three UK number one airplay songs in one year ain't bad at all.

thanks to bev,joe kentish,bill,venetia mills,georgie mcavenna,jon green,david tench,sally herbert and everton nelson,paul adam and anyone who knows me.

we've just recorded pix singing her own version of 'silent night' for a free christmas i-tunes download and also a cover version of 'when love takes over' that will be available on a deluxe album next year.

other stuff.

we had a 'the first steps' songwriting reunion last saturday.two new songs from chris and me.

mads,jon green and i submitted a song for kylie.hope she sings it.the song is on the new tunes page called 'come home'.

talking of 'home' eliza doolittle releases her EP with our song "go home" included.she's a new UK singer songwriter with a ton of personality.check out the sampler http://www.elizadoolittle.com/?src=mp3.

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top of the poppermost 
a remarkable time.a career high....

mads and i had songs on the top 4 compilation albums in the UK chart.

No 1 Clubland 16 Boys & Girls (Pixie Lott)

No2 Pop Party 7 Boys & Girls (Pixie Lott)

No3 Dreamboats and Petticoats Volume 3 Dream Baby Dream,You Won't Catch Me Crying

No4 Live Lounge Mama Do (Newton Falkner cover version not bad at all)

No 8 Now 73 Mama Do (Pixie Lott)

we worked with pixie on her radio one 'live lounge' performance with a coldplay style arrangement of "when love takes over".(originally kelly rowland and david guetto).pixie's band joined by the best string quartet in town.
as usual she sang with soul and made the song her own.

recent visitors to the swamp include lizzy pattinson to sing some of our kylie minogue song pitches.(all refused so far).

also we welcomed back darren hayes and wrote another song for his solo album.a brilliant lyric and plenty of laughs.

ttfn

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a suprise visit from swamp favourites casey shea and wes 'weschester' hutchinson resulted in the soon to be classic kylie cut 'stardust'.

with a little help from stardust band members scarlett skye,silent E and stylist biff.

yes,we are silver dancers.



other recent songwriting colabs with emeli sande,jade williams,lise karlsnes and wayne hector.



pixie lott still #1 UK airplay with 'boys and girls'.working harder than ever.



the musical 'dreamboats and petticoats' featuring my songs 'dream baby dream' and 'you won't catch me crying' now has two shows running.one in the west end and one on the road.it's quite silly but a lot of fun.the flimsiest of scripts introduces songs from pre-beatle england in the style of the queen show 'we will rock you'.but it all works.

http://www.dreamboatsandpetticoats.com/



if you fancy some fantastic alternative clothing then check out my brother's retail business 'the hemp store'.

based in cambridge market.go greener.look meaner.(in the 'cool' sense not the miserly way).

http://www.thehempstore.co.uk/

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