Ginger & Friends

A happy and prosperous New Year to you all!

Things, it would seem, never stand still around here and, in the spirit of getting 2011 off to a flying start, Ginger is currently holed up recording material for a new project.

He’s been twittering about the progress over the last few days, and it all seems to be coming along rather nicely.

Check out what’s been going on, or join the conversation, by using the #mutation hashtag.

Trying to pick just 14 songs from Ginger’s back catalogue for the retrospective album ’10′ was difficult. So difficult in fact we decided to add another 10 songs to it and give you them for FREE!

Enjoy!

Ten itself is out now, available at iTunes, Cargo and good record shops, featuring highlights of Ginger’s solo work over the last 10 years, including two brand new songs that are getting rave reviews.

Today sees Ginger release 10, a 16 track compilation album covering the best of the first ten years of his solo work.

Writing of the release in his blog, Ginger says: This album represents ten years of recording outside of The Wildhearts family, but for me it represents even more than that. This album tells the story of the first steps I took alone in creating an independent personality for myself as a writer and as a father.

The artwork and tracklisting, including two fantastic brand new tracks exclusive to this release – No Way Out But Through and This Too Will Pass – are as follows:

Sonic Shake Yeah Yeah Yeah How Hard Can You Make It Mother City Any Way But Maybe Black Windows Church Of The Broken Hearted Drinking In The Daytime The Man Who Cheated Death This Is Only A Problem When She Comes I Knew You Girls Are Better Than Boys Jake No Way Out But Through This Too Will Pass

10 is available as a CD or Download from all the usual outlets, on Round Records, and can be ordered now direct from Cargo.

This album represents ten years of recording outside of The Wildhearts family, but for me it represents even more than that. This album tells the story of the first steps I took alone in creating an independent personality for myself as a writer and as a father.

From Sonic Shake, a song that I wrote and demoed in Japan (I told the label people that I could play every instrument on the demo recording and the next day they booked me studio time. I’d never played drums before on a recording and I was really nervous. It was very exciting) and recorded in London just after meeting the mother of my first son. Soon after the recording was finished she was pregnant, and not long after that, my son, Jake, was performing onstage in Tokyo in front of a wild crowd singing his name. I’d sign autographs after the show, and Jake had signed the CD before me!

The band SilverGinger 5 were assembled to promote this album and our first ever shows were in Japan. I will never forget this period of my life. I was struggling with drug addiction and the Japanese fans showed me a more pure way of life through love and commitment, something that I am reminded of on a daily basis to this day.

After Jake’s mother and I broke up I went through a well documented depression that showed me the road to spirituality and enlightenment, and in this period the song The Man Who Cheated Death came to me via divine inspiration. The album that followed, Valor Del Corazón, was recorded in Willie Nelson’s studio in Austin, Texas, and allowed me to immortalise my feelings at the time. Since this recording I have been made aware of some amazing effects this album has had to its listeners, including someone who stopped themselves from committing suicide because of the song This Is Only A Problem. Surely the most significant compliment that a songwriter could ever be paid?

Life as a single man followed, and a period of promiscuity bore tracks such as When She Comes from the album Yoni, a record written about new beginnings and the scattered search for oneself amid the chaos of choice. The resulting album examines the theory that maybe too much choice is not necessarily a good thing. The confusion in songs like Jake and Black Windows shows a man coming to terms with limitations and, ultimately, morality.

Market Harbour followed Yoni as the journey continued towards the only conclusion that one is able to find in life, that of living in the moment and accepting tribulations as valuable, and wonderful lessons. Sorrow and loss are as much a part of this experience as happiness and discovery. In fact they are all part of the same process. It is impossible to have one experience without having them all.

The final two songs of this collection summarise this strange and educational decade for me. Freedom comes from finding happiness, happiness comes from understanding, understanding comes from experience and experience comes from things not going to plan. And just because things aren’t going to plan doesn’t mean they aren’t exactly how they should be.

Namaste

Ginger x

10 is released through Round Records on 10/10/10

A download only charity compilation launches today to raise money for the relief efforts following the Earthquake in Haiti.

Upon arriving back in the UK a few weeks ago at Heathrow (and being a little too wrapped up in seemingly important things like whether the plane would land in the snow or if my train would be running) I was immediately greeted and numbed by the horrific and shocking news reports that followed after the Haiti Earthquake. As the magnitude of the disaster continues to grow by the day, I was very keen (like most people) to do ‘something’.

Thus The Haiti Project – a charity download album – was born. Within a few days of sending emails and calls to my nearest and dearest friends an album quite literally ‘came together’.

The album is spearheaded by the anthemic debut track from The Sonic Graffiti, a new band from LA put together by Ginger, Billy Morrison, Michael Butler & Scott Lipps. The track entitled Mystery Number was recorded at Matt Sorum’s studio in August 2009 & was produced by the legendary Mike Clink.

I’d like to personally say a big thankyou to Ginger, Billy, Michael, Scott & Mike for donating this exclusive track, and allowing The Haiti Project to (hopefully) raise even more money.

http://www.facebook.com/thehaitiproject

The Haiti Project Tracklist:

1) The Sonic Graffiti – Mystery Number (Exclusive)
2) Eureka Machines – Being Good Is Ok, But Being Betters Better
3) Electric Six – Newark Airport Boogie
4) Jackdaw 4 – Jesus Wants My Soul Back
5) The Loyalties – Sofa Surfin’ UK (Acoustic)
6) Antiproduct – When We Find Love
7) The Organ Beats – Happy Birthday/Come On Home
8) The Wildhearts – Unbroken
9) Tragedy: All Metal Tribute To The Bee Gees – Nights On Broadway
10) Radio Dead Ones – Take It On Trust
11) Ricky Warwick – Love Owes
12) Brijitte West (Feat. Jesse Malin) – How To Be Good
13) Moi? – This Is All That I Wanted
14) Laika Dog – Piano Song
15) Sorry & The Sinatras – Riverside
16) Children of The Unicorn – Nightshark

The download album costs just £5 and is available from MusicGlue.

16 songs for £5!? Oh yes!

All of the proceeds will be donated directly to the ongoing relief efforts and you’ll end up with 16 great tracks. Good deal.

http://www.facebook.com/thehaitiproject

The Ginger live acoustic album – ‘The Great White Monkey’ Special Edition – is out on Monday (1st June) from all good record stores, and also online through the usual suspects – including HMV, Play, Amazon & Cargo. There are official signed copies on ebay through the official Round Records page to celebrate the release.

The tracklisting is as follows
CD1 –
1. (Intro)
2. 29 x The Pain
3. (Superskunk)
4. She’s So Taboo
5. (Buy A CD Player)
6. One Love, One Life, One Girl
7. Inside Out
8. Hocus Pocus
9. The Daftness
10. Re-Inventing The Wheel

CD2 -
1. (Song Writing Tips)
2. Geordie In Wonderland
3. Skychaser High
4. Nita Nitro
5. (Duran Duran)
6. I’m A Lover Not a Fighter
7. (Self Harm)
8. There’s Only One Hell
9. LTD
10. Spike Milligan 1
11. Pissjoy/Suckerpunch/Nurse Maxim
12. Spike Milligan
13. Dangerlust
14. Cheers
15. Does Your Mother Know/Sky Babies/Space Oddity,
16. I Wanna Go Where The People Go

It was recorded back in September 2003 at The Rugeley Rose Theatre.

Ginger’s new solo album: ‘Market Harbour’ is out now and available from Cargo Records

The full tracklisting is as follows:
1. Casino Bay
2. Soap Hammer
3. Queen Of Leaving
4. Attentionette
5. The Ninns Of Mourning
6. House Of Moths
7. How Hard Can You Make It?
8. Awareness & The Great Integrity
9. A Philosophical Conversation About Age
10. Josser Bank
11. Tenants
12. Regret.com
13. Black Yeah
14. I Knew You (An Anemesis)
15. You & Me (That’s What I Want)
16. Couple Trouble
17. The Perilous Burden Of Prodigal Obligation
18. A Malibu Chronical
19. Overeasy
20. Eye Of The Rotunda
21. Shatterproof

Ginger’s new single is released on Monday (24th Dec), featuring ‘Casino Bay’, ‘Holiday’ and ‘How Legends Love’. The single is available from Cargo Records and from high street record shops (full listing of HMV’s stocking the single below).

Holiday is taken from ‘Yoni’, whilst ‘How Legends Live’ is exclusive to this release and ‘Casino Bay’ will appear on the forthcoming Ginger album: ‘Market Harbour’ due for release 28th Jan. For full details on Market Harbour, check out Market Harbour at Cargo Records

HMV Stores stocking Holiday / Casino Bay:
Aberdeen
Ashford
Ayr
Banbury
Birmingham Bullring
Birmingham High Street
Blackpool
Bromley
Cambridge
Canterbury
Chelmsford
Chester
Derby
Dudley Merry Hill
Durham
Eastbourne
Edinburgh Fort Kinnaird
Edinburgh Princes Street
Falkirk
Fopp: Glasgow
Gateshead
Glasgow Argyle Street
Guernsey Direct/Internet
Gun Wharf Quay
Hatfield
Huddersfield
Inverness
Liverpool Temp
Manchester 21 Market Street
Manchester 90 Market Street
Middlesbrough
Milton Keynes
Newcastle
Norwich
Nottingham Listergate
Oxford Circus
Oxford Street
Perth
Peterborough
Scarborough
Sheffield High Street
Shrewsbury
Slough
Southend
Stafford
Stratford Upon Avon
Telford: Resite
Trafford Park
Tunbridge Wells
Uxbridge
Winchester
Wolverhampton
Worcester

Copies of Howling Willie Cunt’s ‘World Of Filth’ (scheduled for release 20 November) and The God Damn Whores’ ‘We Are The Lucky 13′ (out now!) will be available via PO Box 402, Gateshead, NE8 9AQ. Also available are copies of Ginger’s ‘Potatoes And You’ and ‘Valor Del Corazon’.

Please include details of which albums you require (and how many copies of each), along with £15 incl P&P per album and legible delivery address details. Please make cheques payable to D Walls.

Jon Poole’s ‘God Damn Whores’ (now featuring Ginger on bass, Jase Edwards on Guitar and Denzel on drums), release ‘We Are The Lucky 13′ on November 13 – available to preorder from HMV and Amazon