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About Me

The meanderings of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds, West Yorkshire. A musical project to keep me occupied whilst my other group is on hiatus and so I can pretend that I'm not just an office worker by trade. I'm attempting to keep this project environmentally friendly and so the first 7" 'The Future Sound of Hip Hop parts 1 and 2' was housed in 100% recycled packaging. The initial copies came with a bonus CD of remixes by Epic 45, Remote Viewer, Part Timer and Northstation, this has now sold out. A seperate 3" cd of remixes/collaborations came out on Moteer in january and further remixes (including those which appeared on the cd with the earlier single) are available from http://www.moteer.com.....if you have the password which comes with the Moteer release. Confused? yes so am I?The album 'Goodbye, Minnesota' is out on Ireland's Rusted Rail records now. Again it has recycled sleeves - can you see a pattern emerging? None of these activities has anything to do with popular demand by the way. The album will be appearing on vinyl sometime in the future but for gods sake don't hold your breath.The Declining Winter live band consisting of R.Vincent Adams, Paul Elam, Gareth S Brown, Stuart Wilson and Sarah Kemp/Elaine Reynolds (job share) is currently becoming more of a tight rocking unit. It made its debut on March 20th at the Pack Horse in Leeds and will be playing shows when requested from here on in.A further mini album - a collaboration with Turkey based dulcimer player Joel Hanson is being worked on as we speak/write.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/19/2006
Band Website: thedecliningwinter.com
Band Members: Richard Adams............... and helpers.
Influences: Dogs, autumn, ycfc, streetlights, I-35, hebden bridge, the declining winter
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Record Label: Rusted Rail/Misplaced Music/Moteer
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Friday August 1st - what are you doing?

Whats everyone doing on Friday? Usually on a Friday I'm wanting to drink my self to death then if I do (or ok come close to it) I wish I hadn't when I wake up the next day in a pool of my own vomit (a...
Posted by The Declining Winter on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:02:00 PST

Sandman article

This article appeared in the August 2008 edition of Sandman magazine in a double page spread alongside a great photo on which I look about 1000 years old (see way way below). Can anyone recommend me a...
Posted by The Declining Winter on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:54:00 PST

Goodbye Minnesota repress

As you may have gathered if you have read through the Hood update - 'Goodbye Minnesota' has had a small re-press due to phenomenal public demand&.ok&.ok not quite but we have run out of them and we ...
Posted by The Declining Winter on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:14:00 PST

Leeds forgotten fringes

I love West Leeds Arts FestivalThe words Arts and West Leeds are not ones usually seen within the same sentence West Leeds being the tract of land from Wortley through Armley up to Bramley, Stanning...
Posted by The Declining Winter on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:10:00 PST

Hood Mailing list update

hello alla few bits and bats to get you through what we are supposed to call the'summer'GARETH S BROWN--------------Gareth S. Brown The GallowsPre-ordering informationMisplaced Music is delighted to a...
Posted by The Declining Winter on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:31:00 PST

lampost update

i was reminded about the pudsey lampost situation today when looking at this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7470674.stm maybe i should have taken my protests further...... ....in the meant...
Posted by The Declining Winter on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:32:00 PST

southern tour 2008

So we are back now. Here are some thoughts from last weeks southern tour:Hiring a van that has grafitti down the side of it leads to some alarmingly strange stares. Also if Norwich is anything to go b...
Posted by The Declining Winter on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:41:00 PST

Uncut review of Goodbye Minnesota

here it is - thanks to jon dale for the review and for shoehorning us into the mainstream rock press (where of course by rights is where we belong!)Richard Adams spent much of the last decade alongsi...
Posted by The Declining Winter on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:42:00 PST

experiment over/conclusions

wednesday-saturdayoh my god the final leg. wednesday saw a slight morning cheat - locally made danish and tyrells crisps from the 24 hour shop then added to bread with the pate from the day before pr...
Posted by The Declining Winter on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:38:00 PST

so we are going on tour......

ok then we are going on tour. well it gets me out of leeds i suppose. if you are coming along come and say hello. we are very nice.June 15th - Sheffield, The ShakespeareThe Declining WinterWinter Nort...
Posted by The Declining Winter on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:57:00 PST