With the possibility of moving back to Birmingham a party in London and a nice peppering of gigs it’s been hard to keep up with my usual frequency of post. So here’s brief catch up of all the things that I haven’t had the chance to post about.

Eurobusk 08

The trip was great as always. We bit off a little more than we expected by driving from London to Berlin in a day but we all had a great time. This year we toured through Berlin, Prague, Salzburg, Luxemburg and London. The cameras were rolling as always and the documentary will be edited together sometime soon. This year we nearly ran out of petrol in a deserted village in the middle of nowhere (the kind of place where someone says, “hey, lets go up to that deserted mansion and ask to use their phone” before being mauled by zombies). We almost got arrested in Prague (that was fun and I caught it on Camera!!! ), we stayed with a local family in Luxemberg AND we were asked by the President of the Covent Garden Busking Association to play there over the summer.

Full stories, more pictures and of course the next series of Eurobusk will be coming soon.
Click Here To See Trailers for Eurobusk 07
or if you have a little more time Click Here To See the Entire first Series

Musicians and the White Powder

Not THAT white powder. This White powder.

I think I was driving during every snow warning through January and February. I saw 12 accidents including 1 live accident (thankfully no-one seemed to be hurt) and about 20 different kinds of snow. All of them cold. All of them slippery. All of them bad.

To tell us more about snow. Here’s Rob in a clip from Eurobusk 07
**!! Warning Contains 1 Bleeped Word – Justified by the Cold!!**

Rob on Snow – Eurobusk 07 from Matt Roberts on Vimeo.

My Promotional Material – Finally Getting It Sent

After a month of designing with my good friend Ashley Morgan we came up with a simple and elegant design for my promotional material. I finalized it, uploaded it to the printers, had it shipped to me, threw it all together and finally have it ready to send.

Jam Session with an Old Friend

I went to visit my old pal Kelly Elliott and her chap Hugh. Now Kelly’s had some exciting new that I’m not allowed to say and Hugh is working on an amazing instrument project endorsed by Dennis Wick which I’m still not sure I’m allowed to mention…. I should perhaps wait until I can actually tell you something before I post about this again .

Until then here’s a photo of Hugh and myself at a Jam Session in Brum.

Hugh has leant me some in ear monitors that I’ll be posting about soon. It will be exciting to give them a review as I continue to find a way to overcome the inherent problems for trumpeters overexerting themselves on loud gigs.