ADAM Masterson

Amazing gig at Lakeside Lounge… thanks to everyone who came out, you made it a special night. Lakeside Lounge isn’t the best venue for sound and musically I was battling against the elements but the audience made it. New York City the best place on earth to play a show bar none. Have added two more sets before I head back to London, both happening on my last night March 22nd Rockwood Music Hall at 6pm and Googies Lounge above Living Room 9.30pm. Hope to see some of you again for the last hurrah till next time

Headed for Toronto March 10th to 15th. Canada music week will be happening so I’m gonna check out a few bands also got my own gig at  The Free Times Cafe March 14th at 9pm

Here’s where it’s at… 320 College Street Toronto ON MST http://www.freetimescafe.com/

If you do have any friends in Toronto please do give them the heads up about this, Canada’s very new territory for me!

Meanwhile it’s NYC tomorrow night Lakeside Lounge!!

We’ve put together another great line up for the The Gold Bug Club @ The Boogaloo. My sister Laura Masterson will again be hosting the night.  Dublin band Bipolar Emire will be headlining plus Woody Guthrie-esque American troubadour Emit Bloch and all the usual Gold Bug Gang.  If you’re in London town Thursday eve- get down there! Here’s a full listing of the night…

BIPOLAR EMPIRE
http://www.myspace.com/bipolarempire

EMiT BLOCH
http://www.myspace.com/emitblochcountry

ANTO DUST
http://www.myspace.com/antodust

MATTHEW MURE
http://www.myspace.com/mattmuremusic

AEREOLPLANO BLU
http://www.facebook.com/people/Aereolplano-Blu/702064918

MISS APPLE TART’S MAGICAL BURLESQUE SHOW
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000636945043

BEAU BRUMMEL
http://www.myspace.com/beaubrummelmusic

DOTT COTTON’S FAMOUS RADIOMIME
http://www.dott.co.nr/

ROO PANES
http://www.myspace.com/roopanes

ROBERT JAMES SELBY
http://www.myspace.com/robselby85

SWEENEY
http://www.myspace.com/sweeneyspace

MORE LAST MINUET SURPRISE GUEST TO BE ANNOUNCED!!!

DOORS: 8PM
DJ TILL 1AM
ENTRY……….FREE!

BE A GOLD BUG! XXXXXX

Thanks to everyone who braved the heavy rain for my Sunday night gig at Rockwood music hall. It’s still my favorite spot, and always has the best sound.

First song ‘Downtown’ seemed to register more with the New York crowd than it has in L.A and London but maybe that’s because I’ve played it in more!

Afterwards I saw a great set from a scottish born artist Freddie Stevenson, and earlier in the night I’d watched Emily Moment and Steve Mahoney perform for Emily’s E.P launch- their voices worked great together. Steve runs a music night at Paddy Reilly’s music bar 519 2nd Avenue which I’m gonna play at tonight 9pm.

Met up with guitarist Terry Derkach at the opening of a store in the east village last week. He invited me down to his studio over the weekend, a sweet spot just off 6 ave on w. 25th street. What started out as a jam and get to know each other soon turned into a recording session. Laid down a version of ‘The Wind’ on his Danelectro 12 string… exciting to be recording new stuff!

Met up with a u.k concert and festival promoter over the weekend, gave him a CD of my songs, hopefully some U.K festival dates in the pipeline this summer!

Gearing up for my gig Sunday night at Rockwood Music Hall. I’m on at 11pm. Rockwood’s in the lower east side at 196 Allen Street. Looking forward to trying out some new songs.

Gonna be in Toronto for Canada Music Week, playing the Free Times Cafe March 14th at 9pm will have more details on this soon.

Also been working on next weeks line up for The Gold Bug Club at The Boogaloo, it’s the best one yet and is happening Thursday March 10. If you’re in London you should definitely go, I’ll be posting all the acts on the bill shortly…

If you’re in New York City hope to see you Sunday night!

Back in New York City and getting ready for two gigs I have coming up. March 6th at Rockwood Music Hall and March 9th at Lakeside Lounge.

Great last few days in L.A. Stayed two nights at The Best Western on Franklin Ave in Hollywood. Deja vu, I stayed there a few years ago on a writing trip with the country singer Jim Lauderdale, I had the best time there then and had the best time there now. I should live in that place right? I wrote two songs in my room last time ‘Fools Of Love ‘ and ‘Can’t Control Myself’ and I’m writing again this time. I think it’s the sun, it raises it out of me, or maybe it’s the picture of Elvis that i reckon they have on every hotel room wall.

Spent most of my time in the 101 Coffee shop downstairs hearing side after side on there juke-box of The Who, Pink Floyd, and Led Zepplin- I’ve never heard as much of those bands as I have in L.A- there everywhere, oh as well as The Stones and The Beatles. Non-stop British Invasion FM throughout the golden state wherever you are.

Have become friends with Nigel Mogg out here Bass player of The Quiorboys. We met at the first night of the Joseph Arthur residency and have become british brothers out in the west. Went over to his studio in downtown L.A on my last night, we invited a few friends over to jam. Good fun. Played a few of the new tunes and ‘Love’ and ‘The Wind’ went down best… a good omen! Was sad to be leaving but good to go out on a high.

Excited to be back in the Big Apple, caught up on the news in Libya at the 9th streets expresso, read the New York Times cover to cover, all change, 2011 gone off with a bang, strap in for 2012.

A great night at The Bootleg Theatre. Great audience nice and busy for my support slot, really focussed crowd, I felt they were on every lyric and I could just go into my zone. I think the performance went well, everything went smoothly. Thankyou to Jo Arthur for having me play. He asked me to play next week too, but alas I’m headed back to NYC tomorrow. The rest of the night was fun. Joseph’s set was a blinder and we all ended up at a party in Beachwood Canyon. Heavy night but a great night.

I’d had one of those great dreamy days too. I woke up with this tune in my head, took a shower and it was still there and some word were coming through. It felt like a mantra, or a prayer. I went out to the back guest house in Venice to a quiet room, and wrote the whole thing out. The morning was outside the window everything felt clear. I didn’t reedit or redraft or reorder the verses. Just kept the whole thing as it came out and called the song ‘Love’.

This is a very new way of writing for me. Till now I’ve always felt like a pearl diver when I write songs. I gotta go down, down to pick something up, but to pick up that precious moment can take many dives, and you never know till you get to the surface whether you got your pearl. It’s a tough way of doing it, I been giving myself a hard time with this stuff for years.

I wrote the song ‘Downtown’ about this, and swore that when I finished the song, something would change. Something has changed it’s magic.

These new songs are written from a completely different place in me. A new creating. Have no idea how people are gonna take to them, I wanna know.

Have loved it here in L.A - I don’t wanna go

It’s my last night in town, I’m going to a studio tonight in downtown L.A to jam with some new friends I made out here, we’re gonna get the electric guitars out, plug in and have some fun.

Right now I’m trying to fix up. If this root beer doesn’t kill this hangover, I’m having a real beer

Headed for New York February 25th and have some shows lined up at Rockwood Music hall and Lakeside Lounge, will be back with stage times and dates tomorrow!

Here are the set times for The Bootleg Theatre Tuesday February 22nd…

8PM Doors
8.30 Adam Masterson
9.00 Craig Wedrem
10.00 Joseph Arthur

Hope you can make it!

Great first gig on the west coast of the states! I played the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood the other night and got a very warm welcome. First on the bill at 7PM but I had a great little crowd of friends and newfound friends. Come my third song I could see a gaggle of pals trickling in and congregating at the back by the bar, and familiar faces peeping out of the shadows taking tables at the front, great feeling for a first L.A show- thank you all for getting down there so early!

Hotel Cafe is a cool spot, I’ve heard much about the place and it lived up to it’s reputation. Great sound and stage… and a piano!

Getting a cluster of new songs in the set too which is exciting. Been opening with this song ‘Downtown’ recently, played it at The Boogaloo first time in January and then again at The Half Moon, another new one I’m settling into is called ‘End Of A Dream’. I played both of these and a brand new one that I wrote here in Venice called ‘The Wind’ that one seemed to stand out from the applause- it was the first time I played it so I don’t know if the audience picked up on that energy, but a good reaction!

Couldn’t have asked for a kinder welcome from the people I’ve met here in L.A. Made some great new friends and little connections here and there which are exciting. Wanna keep writing while I’m on this travelers energy! Thanks to everyone who came out to the show.