sam forrest

i released my latest album ' caught under a spell ' on desert mine on 26 january 2024. it was recorded at groovetank studios and noisebox studios in east yorkshire from about february to september 2024.  i recorded and mixed it myself, but dave keegan did the mastering, hayley hutchinson did some backing vocals on 'slacker', 'someone's daughter' and 'small world'. to record it, i used the following stuff: macbook laptop  ua audio apollo twin x  microphones: akg 414, shure sm57  guitars: gibson j45, guild polara, fender precision bass  vox ac15 amp pearl drumkit Caught Under a Spell by Sam Forrest

  here is a photo i took of an abandoned petrol station near where i live. nice isn't it? anyway, i've got a show coming up in manchester on november 4 2023 at briton's protection. it's a 'special' show because i'll be playing two sets as a kind of retrospective of the music i've been churning out over the past 20 years. what makes it truly special is the fact that the show is being promoted by akoustik anarkhy who helped me and my band, nine black alps, a lot when we were starting out. they are big music fans and excellent people too. so come down and share in the experience... ticket link here ... 

  been a while... just to let you/me know that i am recording another solo album. doing it all by myself including drums in various places in east yorkshire including the above space - perfect for tripping over microphone cables. don't really know what kind album it is yet, but have done six songs so far that are quiet, very quiet, louder, and some are quite long too. i should mention that my band sewage farm has a new EP out called mould and my other band, the sorry kisses, also had a mini album out recently called hang from a star . apart from that i'm figuring out how the new audio interface in the picture above works and still trying to tune my guitar/voicebox...

  hey, hidden bay have released my new album 'aeroplane days' on tape on 10 september 2021. i recorded it with micah calabrese over the past couple of years. hope you like. you can buy the tape here or stream it somewhere else.. it has ten songs that i wrote probably around 2018. most of them started as acoustic demos, but i asked micah to help out by adding drums and things. he recorded his parts in los angeles, then i added vocals and guitars and things here in england, and the whole thing went back and forth lots of times. the whole record took a long to make but i'm happy with the way it sounds. plus i was really pleased when i got an email from hidden bay records (a cool french record label) who said that they wanted to release a tape for me. so i submitted 'aeroplane days' and they made a limited edition cassette run for the album...

i’ve just released a new EP called ‘crooked candle’. it came out on desert mine music on 5 february. you can either get it from the desert mine shop or my bandcamp page here: https://samforrest.bandcamp.com/ i recorded the ep over a couple of months in autumn 2020. this was all done at home with the drums being recorded in a stone shed. it’s all played, recorded, mixed and mastered by myself so I have no one else to blame. but i did borrow the cymbals from wolf solent and the drum kit from love revisited. the songs were mostly written over the previous couple of years. i originally wanted the record to be eight tracks long, but my drumming was so bad that I kept it as being a five song EP. it was originally going to all be recorded with a drum machine and detuned guitars. this was supposed to be in a tribute to mid era sonic youth and late era escape-ism. but this ending up sounding rubbish so i played the drums and added guitars til it sounded ok.....

 early february 2021 hopefully. five songs recorded in a stone shed...