Songwriter signed by record label

SINGER/SONGWRITER and diy musician,  Julian Pugsley from Melksham, has signed a deal with independent record label, Subjangle.

A double CD containing 40 of his songs is being released in November. The South Africa-based indie label signed Julian, who records his music under the moniker ‘Blake’, following the release of his previous album 1971, home-recorded during the lockdown. 

The new CD, entitled HMS Blake, will feature a mixture of new songs and older material stretching back to the days of Julian’s former band, Karma Truffle, who were signed to the Ecto Music label in the 00s.

Julian said, “I am absolutely delighted to be signed to Subjangle. The label has some fantastic acts on its roster, including The Hannah Barberas, The Crystal Furs, The Alpine Subs and Night Heron. HMS Blake is a mixture of the old and the new. It features my latest songs, but also serves as a career retrospective.”

Album highlights include ‘Vinyl Junkie’, which was featured in the 2018 British crime film ‘Dragonflies Only Live For 24 Hours’, and which appears on the CD sampler of the current issue of Relix music magazine, and the Paul McCartney tribute song, ‘Pepper Man’, with its clever accompanying video where Julian plays the parts of four different-looking musicians.

“As a one-man band, I had to record myself playing all the instruments in the video and I thought it would be fun to play a different character for each instrument,” he said. “I was inspired by Paul McCartney’s video for his song ‘Coming Up’. Funnily enough, I’ve been playing the role of John Lennon in a Beatles tribute band for ten years, but I felt it was time for McCartney to receive some recognition for being a musical genius, too.”

Julian is booked to appear at The Pound Arts Centre in Corsham on Saturday 13th March 2021.

HMS Blake is available to order on CD for £8 from Julian’s Bandcamp page: https://thisisblake.bandcamp.com/ For further information about Julian’s music, visit his website: www.thisisblake.com/