Oh yes, I almost forgot to mention - Steve and I will be making our live debut as Uncle Wally and Uncle Steve on Thursday 31 January at The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge. We will be supporting Molly Jones and Lee Southall, so come early if you want to see us!

We've had a review from Nell McCloud in Sound on Sound magazine's January 2013 issue - this is what she says:

"The families of Wally and Steve will be relieved to hear that nothing untoward is going on at the bottom of the garden. They're knob twiddlers, for sure, but only of the most harmless kind. In fact, what they're (unwittingly?) making is a tribute to just about every musical genre of the past 100 years, all in 49 and a half minutes. Bonkers? Undoubtedly. Successful? Partly. Enjoyable? Um, yes, yes it is.

There are albums which are made with an eye to commercial success, and this exists in an entirely different sphere. A sphere occupied by the likes of Wally and Steve, who have no doubt been meaning to get together to make music for years; not because they want to be famous, but because they enjoy it. Some parts of this project are far more musically successful than others. I really enjoyed 'The Big House', for example, but some songs flag halfway through. For the most part, though, it's rhythmic, happy and full of unexpected instruments and experiments.

I can't honestly say that this is particularly high-quality music - by mainstream estimation - and I wouldn't encourage attempted domination of large venues. Howevere, if it's not doing any harm, let an Englishman do whatever he likes in his shed, I say. It's probably keeping them out of all sorts of trouble."

Remember - you can buy the Songs From a Shed CD online directly from us by clicking on the PayPal link below. You can also buy a digital copy at the bargain price of £4 from our Bandcamp site, and you can buy copies in two shops - Midgley Community Shop, and the wonderful Muse Music in Hebden Bridge.

November update

Well - we're on the HebWeb and in the Hebden Bridge Times today - fame at last! Wally has been sending the CD off to various newspapers, radio stations and music review magazines, and we have also been talking with local agency Doddnaze Artists, who we hope will be representing us and helping us to get known a bit more widely.

In the meantime we're moving on with our recording projects, and drinking lots of tea.

Don't forget you can buy the  Songs From a Shed CD online directly from us by clicking on the PayPal link below. You can also buy a digital copy at the bargain price of £4 from our Bandcamp site, and you can now go into two shops to buy a CD - Midgley Community Shop, and the newly re-opened Muse Music in Hebden Bridge.

This week we will be...

We'll be working on one of the new tunes that we have in the pipeline - there's one provisionally called (I Like) Staying In and another that's definitely called All Over Me.

We will also be checking sales to date of our fabulous CD. We know that these will be somewhere between 8 and 18 so we haven't achieved world domination yet. If you'd like to buy one, you can see how to by checking below in our first post.

Wally has been playing a little riff he knocked together on the train home from London a couple of weeks ago using Nanostudio on his iPhone. This will probably end up as the ending of another tune in due course. We think it's quite hypnotic - you can check it out here

Right - this is the first and last time either of us will be doing this (probably). Buy one of our fabulous signed CDs or have a listen to our stuff on our SoundCloud page. If you think our tunes are worth it, we'll put a band together to take the music round and about. If we do, it will be good - we promise. If you think it's worth us bothering, comment below or say something on our Facebook page.

BUY OUR CD - SONGS FROM A SHED - HERE!

We've just completed our first album - Songs From a Shed. It's been two years in the making, and nearly all of it has been recorded in Steve's shed studio (not in the shed pictured - that's on Wally's allotment.)
We have been around the music scene in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire for longer than we care to mention. Both of us have been members of legendary ska/rock band Owter Zeds (Wally still is) but this is the first time we have been partners in a writing, producing and recording project. We're already at work on that difficult second album.

You can preview Songs From a Shed on our Soundcloud page; alternatively you can buy a signed copy of the CD from us. Here's how to do it:

• Like us on our Facebook page
• Send a message to us giving your name and delivery address
• send a payment of six pounds (includes £1 postage and packing) via the PayPal link below. We will dispatch your CD on receipt of your payment.

And we've just sent a few tracks to BBC Introducing - hoping to get a play or two....