News

23 September 2008:

New Song News!

Those who are close to Paul will know that he has been through a very tough and emotional time of late! But the good news is - that in true 'Songwriter Fashion' he is coming out a survivor! We are pleased to announce that there are two freshly-written, brand new songs in the set now! 'Winter Fires' and 'This Life' So watch out for these at the gig on 28th September at The Good Intent! and these may even feature on the new album!

Also our wonderfully talented fiddle, Harp and Cello player Fran Broady, (the new girl) has been busy writing songs as well during her summer holiday break in France! Looks like the band are going in to overdrive with new material! WATCH THIS SPACE!

Drummer News!

Sadly our brill drummer and ole friend Andy Baker is still having trouble with his cracked hip-bone, and has been advised by doctors and specilaists to 'Leave his kit alone' - the poor chap is still in agony.

In the meantime, standing in for Andy on the ole pots & pans - as he has been for the past couple of gigs, the new album recording and also will be at our next gig at The Good Intent on the 28th, we have our good buddy Phill Moody from ex-local folk rock band Five Legged Horse, and now with a brand new highly entertaining outfit The Throwbacks.

Phill has kindly agreed to sit-in until the end of November. Many thanks to him!

New Album News!

The band (including stand-in drummer Phill Moody) has been busy in the studio in Brighton, and over half of the new album 'The Bridge' is now recorded. Once the last few tracks have been done, the whole album will be mixed and ready to enter into your lives!

The album has attracted a good deal of attention after the unmixed version was played to a select few. Darren Beech from Folking.com said "From what I have heard so far, this album is stunning, and marks a dramatic step change for Ted Can't Hear Ya. This album is in a class of its own compared to all other Ted Can't Hear Ya material. I can't wait to hear the finished article."

We are looking to get the album out by late November. Because the title track 'The Bridge' was written by Paul, about his da's tragic death due to motor neurone disease, a special launch of the album is being planed to be held at The Good Intent in Rochester - with The Motor Neurone Disease Association there on the night to raise awareness and funds for their great work.

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Our Newest Member!

We are delighted to announce that we have been joined by the fabulous Fran Broady, on fiddle, harp and cello.

Some of you may know Fran played from the fantastic ‘Shave The Monkey’ and we are really pleased that she has decided to join our merry bunch of minstrels!

Fran's story here

and more about her here

Free Download!

Visitors to our MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/tedcanthearya (assuming they had the sound turned-on!) will have heard Ted's version of 'Musical Priest' playing in the background.

This is a live recording from Ted's gig at the 'Prince of Wales', Strood, in October 2006; featuring Paul, Lucy and Andy, with Tim Sumner on fiddle.

You can now download your own mp3 of this recording, either from the MySpace page, or direct from this site, via this link. (Right-Click - 'Save As')

Enjoy!
 

Hi all,

We have recently been in rehearsals for our gigs at this year's Rochester Sweeps Festival - and these have gone really well!!

We are all really ‘buzzed’ up about these gigs – and we will be playing a slightly tweaked set – with a few surprise songs!! We are also pleased to announce that, for the Sweeps, our friend Lesley will be joining us on fiddle and melodica.

We are really looking forward to ‘cranking it up’ and hope to see as many of you as possible at these gigs - which are on...

Saturday 5th May at ‘Expectations’, High Street, Rochester, at 12.30ish!
and
Monday 7th May at ‘The Kings Head’, High Street, Rochester, at 12.30ish!

From our point of view; we won’t be running our ‘Ted Can’t Hear Ya’ stage this year – and as both our gigs are lunch times - this means we get the rare chance to enjoy the festival and get about to see many of the great bands playing this year!

After the Sweeps we will be announcing our new full-time fiddle player, and the new ‘expanded Ted Can’t Hear Ya’ line up! Ahead of recording our new album; now scheduled for late summer.

See ya there,

Paul, Andy, Lucy and all ‘The Ted Team'
 

19 March 2007:

A Fond Farewell to Tim

Just a quick note to let everyone know, that sadly Tim Sumner our great friend and fiddle player for the last year has had to drop out of the band for the foreseeable future. Due to time restrictions, work, family and career commitments. We all know how only to well what that feels like! We wish him a happy retirement!

In fact all of us wish him well. I am sure (and we all hope) that one day he may return and grace us with his excellent playing once again.

We are pleased to say that Tim’s hot seat (or standing room space) at this years Rochester Sweeps Festival will be gladly and competently filled by our good friend - fiddle and mandolin player Richard Peats.

However, the search for a permanent replacement fiddle or mandolin player is now on…. So if ya fairly local, play fiddle or mandolin or even a squeeze box - and like ya folk ‘cranked up’ then get in touch !!

Email info@tedcanthearya.com or use our MySpace contact links. We would be glad to hear from any interested parties! Email us and we will fill you in…

We look forward to seeing at least some of you at Rochester Sweeps Festival!

Paul Johnson

2 February 2007:

Ted's EP re-issued exclusively on-line

Inspired by the 'No Airport at Cliffe Campaign' in 2002; Ted's EP 'All Hallows' Eve has been 'out-of-print' for some years.

Although many of the original CDs suffered from technical problems; we have turned Paul's CD collection inside-out, found a good one, and with some modest re-engineering, are now offering it on-line as freebie downloads - complete with artwork!

Visit our 'Discography' page, to get your own piece of Ted history.

11 January 2007:

Paul looks forward to returning to The Levellers' studio, to record Ted's upcoming new album 'Constant Coven' ...

(Click the picture for the full article.)

1 December 2006:

TCHY now has a page on MySpace www.myspace.com/tedcanthearya  

(Click the picture to visit it.)