Groove Armada Blog Entries

ANDY'S BLOG - SOUTH AMERICA TOUR

groove — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:41:00 +0200

London

The trip to the U.S. and South America began for me on Saturday April 12th, leaving home in Barcelona with 3 weeks worth of clobber in a han

ANDY CATO's GA TOUR DIARY

Andy — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:23:00 +0200

March/April 2008

Letter from America

We arrived in Miami, the Friday of Winter Music Conference weekend, without clothes or tunes. In fact, we'd

Tom

Tom — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:52:00 +0100

Tom's Blog, March 2008

It’s been some time since either of us put pen to paper, and plenty has been happening. I think I last wrote in January, fro

Tom’s Blog – Australia 2007/08

groove — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:30:00 +0100

When the Groove Armada annual diary comes round you can't help but keep an especially beady eye on plans for touring Oz. It always happens in December

Tom & Andy's Festive Blog

groove — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:39:00 +0100

2007 has been a phenomenal year for Groove Armada’s Andy Cato and Tom Findlay: a No 1 single ‘Song for Mutya’; a Best Of compilation; the truly brilli

Straight from the horse's mouth... Moscow Disco

groove — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:35:00 +0100

Where’s the ‘Where are you Andy’opener? Well it’s all change on the Armada blog. It used to be that we’d have a chat with our friend Chris, who would

GA Blog 36: Tom - Great cuppa / Funny bust-up

Tom — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:47:00 +0100

Hello Tom. Where are you?
I'm at Brixton Academy, getting ready for the first of our three gigs here. We're all pretty excited.

So you had five gi

GA Blog 35: Andy - Wigs / GA10 Tour

groove — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:21:00 +0100

Hi Andy, where are you?
I'm back in Barcelona, very briefly. We did Friday and Saturday night in Glasgow and then I popped back over here.

So ho

GA Blog 34: Tom - Steve Ryder / Knickers

Tom — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:08:00 +0100

Hey Tom. How are you?
I'm good, thanks. Did you get the picture I texted you, with my beard?

Yes indeed.
We've all got beards at the moment. We'v

GA Blog 33: Andy - Brighton / Bondi

Andy — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:29:00 +0200

Hi Andy. How's it going?
Not too bad thanks. I'm standing by the canal in Amsterdam, which has become like a second home to us. This is our fourth vi

GA Blog 32: Tom - Rubber bricks / Russian oligarchs

groove — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:52:00 +0200

Hey Tom, how are you?
Good thanks. I'm just fannying around with something that probably won't go anywhere.

What is it?
Well, the record company

GA Blog 31: Andy - GA10 / Italian warehouse parties

Andy — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:22:00 +0200

Hi Andy. What have you been doing this week?
Tom's been in Barcelona and we've been busy with this GA10 compilation. We've divided the tunes up into

GA Blog 30: Tom - Spiderman mugs / Brian May wigs

Tom — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:45:00 +0200

Hi Tom. We missed you last week.
Yes, I was away on holiday. After I'd adjusted to the new pace of life, it was great. I was a bit twitchy the first

GA Blog 29: Andy - Oil caps / Fridge magnets

Andy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:34:00 +0200

Hello Andy. This is the first time we've had the same GA member twice in a row..
Yes, it's a monumental occasion

So why is Tom shirking his respon

GA Blog 28: Andy - Laptop mixing / Water skiing

Andy — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:50:00 +0200

Hi Andy. How are you?
Yeah, I'm good thanks.

What have you been up to in the last couple of weeks?
We were in Ibiza for the Radio 1 weekend. Tha

GA Blog 27: Tom - Honey badgers / Uncle Don

Tom — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:55:00 +0200

Hi Tom, how are you?
Not too bad, thanks, although I've got a bit of a cold. It seems to be doing the rounds. And I'm about to get on a plane, which

GA Blog 26: Andy - London / Tokyo

Andy — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:20:00 +0200

Hi Andy, how are you?
Fine thanks. I'm at Tom's house today. We're waiting for someone from the Observer newspaper, followed by Alan from The Rakes.

GA Blog 25: Tom - Lovebox / Hollywood

Tom — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:20:00 +0200

Hello Tom. How are you?
Yeah, I'm good. I've been working hard over the last couple of weeks. It's been a bit of a mad one, with Lovebox finally happ

GA Blog 24: Andy - Holiday time / Silver Dream

Andy — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:43:00 +0200

Hi Andy, how are you doing?
I'm not bad, thanks. I'm on me holidays in Ibiza, which is nice.

You're showing true dedication to the blog cause by

GA Blog 23: Tom - Glasto mud / Athens riots

Tom — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:32:00 +0200

Hey Tom. How are things in Camp Groove Armada?
They're good. And manic. You've caught me in one of those little whirlwinds that we have from time to

GA Blog 22: Andy - CD DJ / Peter Crouch

Andy — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:53:00 +0200

Hi Andy. How are you? Not bad, a little bit ragged, but I'm alright.

Why are you ragged? It just seems to never stop at the minute. Relentless. But

GA Blog 21: Tom - Good gigs / bad gigs

Tom — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:53:00 +0200

Hi Tom. How are you?
Not too bad thanks. I DJed at a terrible nightclub last night. It was full of rich people and I didn't enjoy it at all. It was l

GA Blog 19: Tom - Tom's instrument / Roundhouse frustration

Tom — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:45:00 +0200

Hello Tom. What have you been up to this week?
We had a couple of days' rehearsals with our new keyboard player, Tim, who can stand in for Andy. He's

GA Blog 18: Andy - Mutya's tattoo / Outdoing Motley Crue

Andy — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:52:00 +0200

Hello Andy. How are you?
I'm OK thanks. Is it too noisy here?

No, you're loud and clear.
Good. I'm sat outside a cafe in Camden, taking it nice a

GA Blog 17: Tom - Posh hotel / pot washing

Tom — Fri, 18 May 2007 10:55:00 +0200

Hello Tom.
Hello. I've just made a nice cup of tea in my Norwich hotel room and I'm ready to chat.

Your hotel looks very posh on its website.
Doe

GA Blog 16: Andy - Stolen magnets / Four star reviews

Andy — Fri, 11 May 2007 11:37:00 +0200

Hello Andy, where are you?
I'm on the tourbus just outside Bristol, where we're playing the first night of our tour tonight.

Is your tourbus nice

GA Blog 15: Tom - Baby Spice / Glow sticks

Tom — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:55:00 +0200

Hi Tom, how are tricks?
Good. We're down at rehearsals again - we're the most professional band in music. We do try hard. We're rehearsing for our pe

GA Blog13: Andy - Balcony monster / Frazzled computer

Andy — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:02:00 +0200

Hello Andy. So you're back in Barcelona? Yes, I'm enjoying a few days of calm before the storm.

The big excitement this week is that the single is

GA Blog13: Tom - Speedboats / Spoons

Tom — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:34:00 +0200

Hello Tom, how are you? Very good thank you. We've had a pretty eventful week, as they all seem to be at the moment. I can't remember when we last spo

GA Blog 12: Andy - Meeting Tennant / Being Tong

Andy — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:01:00 +0200

Hey Andy, how are you? Not too bad thank you.

When did you get back from down under? On Sunday. I was meant to be DJing at a club called Yellow in

GA Blog 11: Tom - Great gigs / Group singing

Tom — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:14:00 +0200

Hello Tom, how are you? I'm good! I'm on the bus and it's a bit loud! HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME?!
Is this gonna work?!

We'll give it a go. So what ar

GA Blog10: Andy - Poisoned prawn / Auckland gig

Andy — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:30:00 +0200

Hello Andy. Where are we speaking to you? We've just arrived in Melbourne.

So you've been down under for about three days? Um... it's hard to say.

GA Blog9: Tom - Rabbits/ Valium

Tom — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:30:00 +0100

Hello Tom. How are things going? It's been a good week actually. We recorded Transmission on Friday, we did Song For Mutya with Mutya, which was her f

GA Blog8: Andy - Essential Mix / Get Down video

Andy — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:31:00 +0100

Hello Andy, how's it going? Not bad thanks. I've got a slightly sore head this morning because after rehearsals yesterday we did the Essential Mix for

GA Blog 7: Tom - Australia / Ray Parlour

Tom — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:37:00 +0100

Hello Tom. How's it going? Rehearsals are going great actually. It's all very exciting, I must say. The new band are all bedded in and sounding really

GA Blog6: Andy

Andy — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:38:00 +0100

Hello Andy. So you've been rehearsing in London all week? Yeah, I flew over from Barcelona on Monday morning. It's always a pain in the arse because y

GA Blog5: Tom

Tom — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:39:00 +0100

Hello Tom. What's been happening this week? Well, as I think Andy told you last week, we finished the record and then I went into a studio in London t

GA Blog4: Andy

Andy — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:40:00 +0100

Hello Andy. What have you been doing for the last 7 days? Well, at the minute I'm struggling to think beyond the last 24 hours, because I didn't go to

GA Blog3: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:41:00 +0100

Hi Tom, what have you been up to this week? It's been quite an eventful week actually - but it turned out well in the end. We had to change the rhythm

GA Blog2: Andy

Andy — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:41:00 +0100

Hello Andy, what are you up to? I'm just catching a train from Leeds to London to have the final A&R meeting for the album.

What will happen at the

GA Blog1: Tom

Tom — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:43:00 +0100

Hi Tom. It's been a couple of years since we've really heard from you guys. What have you been up to?
Well, we put the Best Of out and then did a bit