Andy McGregor

Tonight was dress rehearsal for 'Mother Maria' and it went very well indeed.  Despite a few initial reservations about the space, things went extremely well and I'm really excited to get the ball up and rolling tomorrow. It has been a really fun and challenging time working on this show.  We started the process aaaaaages ago, last November I think and I am very happy with the results.  The cast have given me their all and I'm sure the performances will excite and intrigue the audience. We open in the Tron tomorrow night, the opening of a show is always a nerve-wracking event but they are good nerves, ones of excitement and not trepidation!

Death of A No-One - One Man Town by A R McGregor This is an album I recorded with One Man Town last year. It was a rush getting it done before I left to go to Uni and therefore it is not exactly the fully finished product.  There are a few songs that I'm sure we would have worked on more, and one or two we would have dropped, had we worked on the project longer but I moved away and was too busy to go back to it.  Now, a year later, the others have gone off and started a new band so I decided to just draw a line and let people hear the album if they want, I may take songs from it and use melodies for other things, and I do think it's a good album, just there's a couple of tracks too many perhaps. The idea was to create a concept album about a mediocre guy's life.  I have no idea why, just kind of came out that way.  Most of the songs merge into one another and there are repetitions of themes etc - mainly to do with the sun.  I wrote all of the songs apa...

Here's a piece of orchestral music I wrote last night, for a movement sequence in Mother Maria.    Saint of the Open Door by A R McGregor

I spent a lovely summer's day sitting in my wee computer room making this video about 'Mother Maria'. I've also updated my website at www.andyrmcgregor.com a little.

I've been busy working on a new blog page for Mother Maria - the new play I am currently directing by Ann Marie Di Mambro.  You can find it here .  Working with a very basic design of three boxes that can be moved around to create different spaces, seems to all be looking good so far.  We have another 5 weeks or so to rehearse it, so plenty of time to get things right!

22 by A R McGregor Just finished writing and recording this wee number.

Received the first ever professional review of something I've been involved with today. And it was five stars! Can't go wrong there. It was great to see it in the concert hall with all the musicians, the actors were fantastic and all in all it was a top experience and something that I won't ever be likely to be involved with again.