The Winter Sessions

The Silent Union – The Winter Sessions 

“Lost in the cedars
Silver-burning twilight…
Silently creeping over now…..”
(Lost In The Twilight)

So, winter then… Often a freezing, forbidding, fairly gloomy time of year interspersed with a couple of overly glitzy and largely underwhelming festivals, right? Right. But for a band the winter can be a productive time and a rich source of inspiration. As that tired, hazy sun falls low in darkening skies and the trees turn skeletal and forlorn, there’s a certain mood, an atmosphere, something you can work into songs of hope or redemption.  

So when the winter kicks in, we’re all over that. We make it our own. We hunker down in our bunker, we write, we rehearse, we dream…  It’s just what we do.

Life in The Silent Union is looking brighter and busier than ever before right now. Back in September, we played a couple of well-received acoustic gigs in and around Leicester – the excellent All About The Music Festival in Hinckley and then a key support slot with NME ‘Ones To Watch’ Jim Lockey and The Solemn Sun at Leicester Soundhouse. We’ve also been looking to complete our line-up and we’re delighted to be able to confirm that multi-talented Emma, of London band World Before Wireless, has joined us on bass, piano and vocals. We’re also in the process of finalising our lead guitarist, we hope.        

So, exciting times ahead. With Emma on board and electric rehearsals back in full swing, we’re already shaping our plans for 2013 which include full-band gigs, more demos and even our debut album…

But for now, when you see those epic skies turn silver-grey and then black; when you see the trees shiver and shake and the shadows get longer – that’s where we’ll be. Taking it all in, writing, dreaming…

See you in 2013…

The Silent Union  

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"And as the evening sun slipped slowly away leaving us alone in the
fading light; and as the birdsong signalled the falling of the magic
hour all around, we witnessed for the first time, intoxicating, the
silent union of the golden fields, the drowsy air and the coming
night..."
(The Silent Union)

Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the songs you write have a
mind and a life of their own... Sometimes you bring them into the world,
let them live a little and find they won't let you go. They're there
late at night when you can't sleep. They're there in the morning in that
space between your dreams and being awake. Haunting you, whispering in
your ear, demanding to be heard.

The Silent Union never went away and yet we're back... With a renewed
focus and a hunger to get these songs out into the public consciousness.
There are songs we wrote a year ago that sound like jukebox classics to
us and yet hardly anyone's heard them. That's about to change very soon. And there are new songs that we have crafted since then, over the long
winter months, and these sound big and grand and vital. Melody is our king and words just keep coming.

There will be gigs. There will be recordings. We'll road-test the songs
acoustically. A good song is a good song and stands up regardless of
backing. There may be full electric gigs at some point too, hopefully.
But for now it's about the buzz; about getting out there and playing the
songs.

Take a ride. Join the union...