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With sales and distribution in the thousands Wish You Well are one very sucessful yet very low profile act!
Established in 1998 Wish You Well (alias Aidan) is a multi instrumentalist playing 20+ different instruments to a performing standard (he plays all the instruments on recordings).
He has written and performed music in pretty much all music genres and for most instruments. For gigs the Wish You Well live band is a constant variable it consists of fellow solo artists and musicians between groups wishing to play as well as acting as a vehicle for those just beginning their careers to gain experience and learn their trade.
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Wish You Well History
The culmination of much hard work came in 1998 with an album of
feelgood songs about Cornwall, I re-titled myself Wish You Well so as to reflect the positive nature of the music. By the spring the first album Way Down Ere was released achieving airplay on local radio stations and good sales in music stores throughout Cornwall with copies winging their way around the globe!
Way Down Ere was put together on a budget of zero with every possible corner cut, so as well as writing all the songs and playing all the instruments I also recorded mixed produced engineered and controlled distribution of the album by myself.
To keep Wish You Well in the public domain I invited fellow musicians to join me at first as duos then later as trios and quartets. The Wish You Well live band became an ideal vehicle for fellow musicians between bands and those just entering the music scene to learn their trade. With new members constantly bringing their own input to the live band we took on pretty much anything in one twelve month period we played ; a medieval banquet, folk , country, blues, 60s,70s,rock and carol concerts as well as giving solo classical recitals.
It was during this hectic and highly successful period that ill health really began to wield its hand and just as Wish You Well seemed destined for great things I was forced into a very lengthy and frustrating lay off. It was during this long period of convalescence that to make ends meet I was forced to put out very inferior 2nds of the 1st album as well as putting out an unfinished 2nd album. September 2000 was the official launch of album 2 'Travelling Companions' which a fragile series of promotional concerts followed.
Over a year elapsed before a brand new bigger and better Wish You Well live band was reformed complete with strings and wind sections the band became more like a mini orchestra forging strong links with local youth music. After another period of great success I felt the time was right to allow the talented youngsters to go on their own creating several good bands. I retitled myself Aidan of Wish You Well specializing on mandolin and mandola and have combined this with extensive youth music work ever since.
During summer 2005 there was a revival of interest and a resurgence in sales of the early Wish You Well material aided no doubt by some high profile appearances at festivals and performances as far north as Durham and Buxton. So several hundred more copies of the recently digitally re-mastered ‘Way Down Ere’ went out into circulation. On the back of this I restarted the Wish You Well live band along its original principles initially forming up to provide music for medieval banquets with an alternate line up for weddings, special occasions etc. The later part of 2006 has been spent picking through the unfinished 2nd album ‘Travelling Companions’ adding all that had to be missed out in the turbulence of 2000 with a view to the general re-release of the finished ‘Travelling Companions’ album. For current Wish You Well news include updates on the progress of a new album visit www.myspace.com/wishyouwellband or type wishyouwellband into any good search engine
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