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
