A Little Uneasy - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Both with folk roots overlaid with classical training, both with many years rock-band experience but without having lost a passion for jazz and blues, we are A Little Uneasy...We met at the famous Music House in Norwich in January 2000 and gradually drifted together as a duo rather than consciously 'forming' one! We played quite a lot of gigs together up to the end of 2006. However, apart from the odd charity appearance, such as our regular Christmas Day set at the Norwich Open Christmas in St Andrewâ€™s Hall, Norwich, A Little Uneasy are now more-or-less inactive. Both of us have many other more pressing commitments and there isn't the time to rehearse that would be required to maintain a standard we find acceptable.However, there is good news for Rick's fans. His original solo LP from the Blue Horizon days, recorded with Mike Vernon in 1971, is now being re-released on CD by Sunbeam Records . Better still, all the tracks from his second album, which was recorded soon after but has never previously been released, are included on the same CD. Rick has been making a few select solo appearances recently but has no intention of any serious promotional gigging. He plays for pleasure these days, in a laid-back and unobtrusive way, enjoying a reclusive life in the middle of nowhere out in the Norfolk countryside.Heather is busy playing with a variety of bands, including Bright Spark and various others, as can be seen on her solo page .~Rick Hayward and Heather Enid Wells~

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Member Since: 8/4/2006
Band Website: travellingrecords.co.uk/uneasy.html
Band Members: Rick Hayward (guitar) and Heather Enid Wells (fretless single-bass).Both sing, after a fashion...
Influences: As the session guitarist for Blue Horizon Records in the 1960s/70s, Rick worked and recorded with many other great musicians, including Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Rod Argent, American bluesmen Lightnin' Slim and Freddie King (who recorded some of Rick's songs), Christine Perfect-McVie (who had a band on the road with Rick), The Zombies and many more.-----Heather was originally taught guitar and banjo by master clawpicker Derek Brimstone, and has had a mixed history since, from touring Germany playing bass with the Tommy Trinder Show to working with Cathy Dennis in Cathy's parents' band, from playing solo three years running on the Club Stage at Cambridge Folk Festival to a current packed date-sheet with her harmony softcore rockband Bright Spark .-----As guitarists we've both been mad on Davy Graham, John Renbourn, Bert Jansch, etc ever since we first heard them, and long before we met. As for Tommy Emmanuel oooo! For composition and songwriting, both love Bach, The Beatles, Bacharach, Brad Paisley, Cole Porter, Greg McDonald and Jobim. There are also some very inspiring local musicians, Norwich is a very hot place for music right now. Our other main influences are each other, and everyone we've ever worked with. We both play gigs and sessions with lots of other people.
Sounds Like: Poor person's Pentangle. It's semi-acoustic jazzy rock'n'roll...No - its bluesy folk-rock... with a Latin-Irish lilt
Record Label: Travelling Records (our own label)
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Last night at the Beachcomber Bar

Hmm well I think last night was a rather strange gig, both for them and for us. It's a sort of holiday camp / caravan park and we were in this rather nice lounge-bar. It was absolutely teeming wi...
Posted by A Little Uneasy on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 03:10:00 PST

Arthur's success

Pleased to say all four songs are now up, including Arthur's Gone to Avalon, and they are up on SoundClick.com too.The picture on Turn the Music Down is actually the interior of St Andrews Hall, ...
Posted by A Little Uneasy on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:43:00 PST

Arthur's Gone to Avalon lost in cyberspace?

Not having much success uploading all the songs yet, though did manage to get two more up today, On Cromer Strand and Turn the Music Down, both from the new CD. Take It Away has been up since the seco...
Posted by A Little Uneasy on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:26:00 PST