Craig Ward

ex dEUS guitar player records solo album with David Odlum (The Frames). You might know Craig Ward from such combos as A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen, True Bypass, Mark Mulholland & Craig Ward, The Love Subsitutes, Craig Ward & Radboud Mens, iH8 Camera, Kiss My Jazz and dEUS. Leave Everything Move Out is his second solo album, and the first to be released on his own Wardism label. It started life as an exercise in archiving. In January 2009, in the middle of a North American sabbatical year, Craig spent a week in his bedroom in Topanga Canyon, in search of a malleable context in which he might settle some melodies that had been running around his head in search of a home for the previous decade. A quick remembering of a simple mirror-image piano motif (also dredged from somewhere ancient) would provide a minimalist trance backdrop to his prog-folk melodies. And so, a demo. An attempt to record the pieces properly, later the same year in Belgium, proved abortive, and the project was shelved indefinitely. Then in 2014, Craig rediscovered his appetite for the project (as he had quietly hoped would happen if he just left it alone for a while), enlisted old friend and producer David Odlum, secured some Lottery money from Creative Scotland (many thanks!) and finally got the bleedin' thing out of his system.