Windyman

"All the leaves are brown" Autumn winds. Photo by @patuchoneira

I'm nice for the coffe table. #barcelonian #windyman #barcelona #christmasgifts🎁

My recent partner in crime, blowing the socks of crowds at festivals in Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven. @ahoi_wilhelmshaven @visitcuxhaven #windycity #windyvenezuela #humanstatue #theatrelife #mentalhealth #doctortheatre #gonewiththewind #theflowerduet

Summer get up, sweating like a pro. #barcelona #catalunya #windyday #summerbreeze #windycity #roadworks #feelinggood #blowme

#catalunya #barcelona #windycity #windyday

I visited Uniontown in Alabama with Director Wayne Scott and Executive Producer Russel Coles to shoot the music video for Union Town. It was a no brainer really given the title of the track but we didn’t know what to expect from the community when we arrived. The Town has experienced real decline in the last 10 years but the people and the recent history of the town made it an especially visual place to film. Many of the towns once beautiful infrastructure is completely run down and abandoned and so Wayne decided to use this back drop as a metaphor for the song and the lyric - ‘Love will come back to you’. The people we met in the town were naturally wary of 3 guys turning up with cameras rolling but became very friendly once they got chatting with us, several of whom agreed to feature in the video. Former Maths teacher David Moore invited us into his house offering a rich source of information about the towns past. The first thing David said to me was ‘It breaks my heart to see how this town has fallen apart’. We visited the ruins of the old school assuming David once taught there and were struck by how dilapidated it had become. ‘Somehow the town echoes the sentiment in the song beautifully’ Special thanks to Malcolm Garcia and David Moore. Credits: Video Director: Wayne Scott Executive Producer: Russel Coles Producer: Wayne Scott Video Copyright: Daniel Spiller Russel Coles Wayne Scott Songwriting Union Town written by Daniel Spiller and Justin Stoneman Musicians Lead vocals: Daniel Spiller Acoustic guitar: Daniel Spiller Bass: Arthur Bassingham Drums: Ross Sheppard Peddle Steel: CJ Hillman Cello: Noelle Woosley Audio Production Union Town Produced by Daniel Spiller #uniontown

The song Wild and the accompanying video are inspired by the films ‘Wild’ and ‘Into The Wild’ also the book ‘On The Road’ by Jack Kerouac. All are stories of a journey, a journey of self exploration by means of travel to the unknown, from ‘civilisation’ to nature or in some cases nowhere or even back again. The small team who filmed this story hope to have captured something of this sentiment in a 4 minute music video. The story follows Daniel on a journey through part of the ‘Deep South’ of America, starting in Nashville Tennessee driving down to Elvis’s home in Memphis, then on to the cross roads Robert Johnson is said to have ‘sold his soul to the devil’, to a lonesome train track used in the film ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’, the swamps of New Orleans and then New Orleans itself, Alabama to Union Town, Selma and the Edmund Pettus Bridge where Martin Luther King led the civil rights march to Montgomery. On the way Daniel meets people who shape the story. The video climax’s high up in the smokey mountains. “How wild it was, to let it be.” - Quote from the film ‘Wild’ “I read somewhere, how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once” - Quote from the film ‘Into The Wild’ “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” - Quote from the book ‘On the Road’ by Jack Kerouac Special thanks to David Baird for making New Orleans even more magical than it already was to Rose Melillo for the use of her bar to film in, her belief and hospitality and to Jude Johnstone for the use of her home to film in, her food to nourish us and for the songs. Film: @originalwindyman Executive producer: Russel Coles

I was presented with this print from the cover of Barcelonian, all I need now is a suitable frame. @alexraventoscardus

Connecting with this demographic is paramount. #connection #barcelona #windyman #windy #restrictions #roadworks #dodging #summerbreeze #arthritis #gens #feelinggood #catalunya #spain

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