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After over twenty years, ten Athlone<\/em> is back with a new album, a film-single and much more to come.<\/p>\n\n\n

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March 2020 was on course to be a busy month, and the start of a busy year for Joe Vaz, former band-member and co-songwriter of ten Athlone<\/em>. He was working on a BBC America TV series, and about to head into several weeks of rehearsals in Manilla for School of Rock: The Musical<\/em>, a touring show which would take him around China and Asia for the next year-and-a-half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, as I’m sure we all remember, a spanner was gleefully thrown in the works and the world was forced to slow down to a halt. And thus, for the most part, ended 2020 in March.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Within the space of 24 hours Joe’s employment prospects for the next year-and-a-half dried up and vanished. What followed, I’m sure, is mirrored in so many other people’s lives over this time. A family member was lost, work disappeared, finances evaporated and alternative plans had to be made. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 16 years living in an apartment in the centre of Cape Town, the choice was made to move down to the deep south of the peninsula to save money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon moving in, Joe converted the disused toolshed into a makeshift voice-over studio in the hope of getting some work through the lockdowns. He didn’t find any work, but what he did <\/em>find was old boxes of sound equipment, mics and guitars. Joe was suddenly sitting with an awful lot of time on his hands, and a recording studio in his back yard. It wasn’t pretty, but it did the job, and for the first time in nearly twenty years, Joe started writing music again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first it was just for fun, something to keep his brain active and creativity flowing through the lockdowns, but Joe quickly found himself sitting on half-a-dozen new songs and the idea of bringing ten Athlone<\/em> back to life began to rear up in his head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly four years later, and ten Athlone<\/em> is back with a bang with their first full-length album in 24 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelator <\/a><\/em>is a ten-track album that ebbs and flows very much like Joe’s temperament over that initial period of lockdown, with slow ballads and kick-ass funky beats living side-by-side with retro-eighties-electro-pop.<\/p>\n\n\n

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After over twenty years, ten Athlone is back with a new album, a film-single and much more to come. March 2020 was on course to be a busy month, and the start of a busy year for Joe Vaz, former band-member and co-songwriter of ten Athlone. He was working on a BBC America TV series, … <\/p>\n

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