I was recently awarded a grant from the Scottish Arts Council to create a suite of new works based on the story of 'Dummy Jim'. 

'Dummy Jim' was a deaf-mute cyclist from the north-east of Scotland who cycled to the far north of Norway and back in the early 1950s, and wrote a journal about his trip.

I will be working with The One Ensemble and Sarah Kenchington on this project (The One Ensemble have already started working...)

I've added a more detailed blog on The One Ensemble's myspace page, and you can find more about Dummy Jim at the beautifully-made website www.dummyjim.com, which i recommend you take a few minutes to visit.

I'm currently finishing off the album i've been making with Sarah Kenchington. We're really pleased with how its sounding - a project unlike any other i've been involved with.

I'm told that The One Ensemble Orchestra album 'Other Thunders' is due for release by No-Fi on March 2nd. This is good news.

I had my first solo gig for many many years earlier this month. In front of friends at CCA Glasgow i tried some ideas out. Some things worked well, some things less so. The next night i played in The Hague, and i felt much happier with the how the music worked. I hope to develop the ideas more with each coming gig. So far i'm booked to play Glasgow (Feb 21st), Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (Feb 26/27th) and Marseille and Lyon (March 21/22nd),

Review of 'Pause For The Jet' in The Wire:
When I think of English Music (with capitals) I don't think Vaughan
Williams, I think The Shadow Ring. So this, the new solo album by
Daniel Padden, also of Volcano The Bear, is very English. There's a
tradition, or group of traditions, stemming from such disparate
progenitors as Syd Barrett and AMM, through Robert Wyatt, This Heat
and Nurse With Wound, to a host of unlikely children such as the Dry
Leaf artists and sundry contemporary hauntologists. And Daniel Padden.
The definitive adjective is waywardness. You get the feeling he could
make a cracking good straight pop album, but simply won't. It's a
position I totally respect. He wants to let sounds be what they are,
with a minimum of polite marshalling into vague shapes. Sometimes
sounding like a song - such as the significantly titled closer
"English Again" (see!) - sometimes sounding like a message in a
bottle ("Marseille Tape").
Like many exemplars of this tradition I'm attempting to illuminate,
Padden has a tendency to sing like a cracked choirboy. I think that's
an English characteristic as well: 'Cake or death' as Eddie Izzard
insightfully put it - or more likely both. Key themes here include
the sea, natural history and grammar, while instrumentation can
encompass anything from a squad of harmoniums to what sounds like a
staircase. Recordings seem to have been made inside a giant banjo. At
all times you know there's more going on than you can get to grips
with. I love records like this. I could listen to it all year.

Bruce Russell

Resonance FM recently asked me to create a 'guest-mix' for their Wire Magazine slot, which i did.
You can hear it here:
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/1413/

I now have copies of Pause For The Jet on vinyl...

Just received many copies of 'Pause For The Jet' on CD. Vinyl will be available soon, but if you're wanting it on CD get in touch.

'Pause For The Jet' should be out very soon. I received the master last week which sounded great.
In addition i've become part of The Book Of Beasts, a new trio of myself, Shane Connolly and Sarah Kenchington. Shane plays drums and percussion in Tattie Toes and has recently also been playing with The One Ensemble. Sarah makes remarkable and fantastical instruments out of metal wood and wire, and then plays them. Some of them require 3 people to lift.
They sound heavy.
We've played a couple of gigs and are on the hunt for more. The Book Of Beasts are playing with Blurt in Stroud 21st June. I'll try and get a dedicated page for the Beasts...

Most attention currently focused on Volcano The Bear's european tour in November/December.
It coincides with a new album 'Amidst The Noise And Twigs'. check the VTB site for the dates.

I've just finished another solo album, provisionally entitled 'Pause For The Jet' - i'm currently trying to find it a home.

Just returned from a small tour/holiday with The One Ensemble and Nalle. With the exception of a disastrous show in London we had a fine time driving to Spain and back.
I'm currently trying to finish a solo album, as well as The One Ensemble Orchestra album, as well as finalising a new Volcano The Bear album ready for the VTB tour in November.