Watch Toby Hay, our Artist of the Month, performing Leaving Chicago live. The track features on his latest album The Longest Day (reviewed here). Glenn Kimpton recently caught up with Toby in Wales to talk about the album and whilst chatting about ‘Leaving Chicago’ he told Glenn about a recent visit to the windy city and the inspiration for the piece:
“You get off the plane there and just merge into this incredible city. I’ve never been anywhere quite like it. The weather was a real mix, there was lots of drizzle and mist and at night when you get the skyscrapers all lit up, it’s a very atmospheric place, kind of like a movie city, what you want cities to be like. But we were only there a few days and definitely felt like we hadn’t seen enough, so it was a shame to leave, but then we got a train down to Missouri to see my brother where he was living. The train journey was so long and flat, you could nod off for a while and wake up and the landscape would be the same as it was three hours before. It was on that train trip, sat down for a long time looking out of the window after leaving a city like Chicago, that the music for that piece started coming to me and it’s the idea behind the whole track really.” Read the full interview here.
Toby has an album launch on Friday, 20th July 7:30pm, St John’s Church, Canton, Cardiff, He’ll be supported by Jim Ghedi, see details below.
Order The Longest Day now via Bandcamp https://tobyhay.bandcamp.com/album/the-longest-day
ALBUM LAUNCH: Friday, 20th July 7:30 pm, St John’s Church, Canton, Cardiff (with support from Jim Ghedi) – TICKETS HERE