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Gregory Page to support Jason Mraz on sold out UK tour this October
Singer-songwriter Gregory Page’s positively charged album ‘One Hell Of A Memory’, which features his good friend & co-producer on the albumJason Mraz singing on several tracks, is set for a UK & Ireland release, on July 11th 2025. The album, which was originally released in America and Holland in 2020 but didn’t get the attention it deserved due to the global pandemic, is set for a full re-release, including a new UK & Ireland version on vinyl and digital services with added songs.
‘One Hell Of A Memory’ imparts a message of optimism and urgency, complete with catchy melodies, beautiful harmonies and an array of special arrangements performed on Banjo, Fiddle, Mandolin and Irish Uilleann pipes by the likes of Dennis Caplinger (Eric Clapton) and Eric Rigler (Braveheart, The Titanic). While the sounds are reminiscent of yesteryear, the lyrics get us on our feet and dancing toward a brighter tomorrow. Page’s wordplay and compositions weave tradition with change, blending yesterday with the future and delivering us an uplifting album with all the feels, right now.
You hear it more and more, the phrase “these are strange times.” We wonder what lies ahead and what shape “normality” might take if and when life begins to sink back into a more relaxed pace, free from all of the anxiety. They say good can always come from adversity, of the anxiety. They say good can always come from adversity, and that’s how it’s been for Gregory Page, with time to pause, reflect and reassess much of what went before and hopefully look forward to brighter, less angst-filled days ahead.
Page’s last album, ‘A Wild Rose’, which Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull described as “Eclectic country-tinged folk music. Perfect for summer evenings on the porch. A great album”,tips a hat to his Irish roots that mean so much to him and was well-received on both sides of the Atlantic, and with this re-release of ‘One Hell Of A Memory’, he’s been tugged back even closer to that side of his life.
A highlight from ‘One Hell Of A Memory’ is ‘Right Now Not Tomorrow’, a rousing anthem, combining both Americana and traditional folk elements, for getting up, seizing the day and letting the good times roll ‘Right Now Not Tomorrow’. It’s impossible not to love the positive sentiment and gorgeous harmonies that burst out of this song like a ray of sunshine, encouraging all those of us languishing to embrace change and live for the moment.
Gregory Page was born and grew up in Enfield, North London. At 14 he moved to America and in 2013 he returned to London to open a show at The O2 Arena for his longtime friend and musical collaborator Jason Mraz, who credits Page for giving him his first show. Mraz & Page return to London on October 4th to perform at The Palladium, amongst an already sold-out UK tour. On coming back for the tour, Page said, “The 2025 UK shows supporting Jason is a path to introduce my music to his fans in the UK and in Ireland. I’m a chap from Winchmore Hill who is grateful for the opportunity to introduce my album ‘ONE HELL OF A MEMORY’ in the UK and in Ireland. I am a citizen of Ireland and tour around the globe using my Irish passport but due to a long comedy of errors I have not set foot (yet) in Ireland so playing there in October will be a huge blessing”.
Gregory Page will open for Jason Mraz on the following 2025 UK tour dates:
4th October- The Palladium, London- supporting Jason Mraz
5th October- Bridgewater Hall, Manchester- supporting Jason Mraz
7th October- Symphony Hall, Birmingham- supporting Jason Mraz
8th October- The Beacon, Bristol- supporting Jason Mraz
10th October- Queens Hall, Edinburgh- supporting Jason Mraz
11th October- Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow- supporting Jason Mraz
13th October- 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin- supporting Jason Mraz
Michele Ducci has unveiled the second single, ‘Woman Like You’, from his forthcoming album and animated film ‘Snail in the Clouds’.
‘Woman Like You’ pairs bright distorted electric guitar with an electronic drumbeat, adding in Ducci’s soulful vocals and a catchy uplifting chorus with Letizia Mandoleisi’s sweet vocal harmonies. A vintage organ pedalboard operated by Ducci simultaneously generates chords, bass and rhythm, like a one-man band. Shane Kennedy (Girl in the Year Above) joins in on guitar. Simon Milner (Is Tropical, Ysing) recorded and produced the track at his 4am Studios in London.
The album and film tell the story of a planet called ‘Snail’, inhabited by hybrids – primarily a mixture between scorpions, snails and humans – who lead a life according to the style of Pythagoras, devoted to music. There is also a cloud man named Agostos, a writer of musical operettas, who together with a talking smoke machine called Doctor Subtilis, begins to kill all hybrids, targeting in particular the hybrid musician Diodoros and his band, in an effort to steal the ark of melodies, an ancient ship that allows the whole planet to survive with music and joy.
The video for the single, created and animated by Ducci and Mandoleisi, delves further into the realm of planet ‘Snail’:
Says Ducci, “The ark of melodies, after various attempts, finally starts to work and fly in the planet Snail, while the shady Doc. Sub. and Agostos, with their platoon of soldiers made of foggy smoke, spy the miracle, planning to steal the ark for their evil and tyrannical purposes.”
About the track, Michele says, “I wrote this song for my love Letizia. Love seen from the mind is the sound we make. Sound is the love of matter.
We used a Technics synthesizer organ from a flea market. I tried to find a mood that was right for the song and I started using the bass of the pedal board together with the synth and the drums, and it was magical to hear the song reveal itself all coming from a single instrument. Leti was singing with me and we recorded everything live in one shot. Then we made Shane do the guitar flight, as if he came out of the window. The idea was to maintain disproportions, guitar thrust and synth drum thinness a la Haroumi Hosono, so as to create an estrangement, but naturally: it’s about how I listen, with close up something that captures me in its nuance as element of a larger orchestra somewhere. I’m glad we decided in the studio with Simon to use the layers of arrangement as the close-ups in the cinema; they look like strange enlargements that perch on parts of a mutated orchestra. I’m happy to come back with this love song at a time when everything seems to opt, even my labor in managing the flows of selfishness that have poured out on me while doing this album, for the sound of war. I’m here happy to be able to say that the sound of love always wins as did for me. Snail in the clouds is one of the most important works in my life and I am glad to start from pure love for this album that is my son.”
The album and full-length film will be released on the 5th of June on Monotreme Records.
Michele and Letizia’s previous musical short film, ‘The Great Book of Nature’, is an official selection for the 2026 Venice Shorts Film Festival.
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