Andy Holden and the Grubby Mitts
For piano, clarinet, string quartet
2011
First exhibited at Kettles Yard Cambridge, 2011
The composition is made through transcribing the sound of arcade machines and rearranging them into a structure based on the movements of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time
Released as edition of 100 CD on Lost Toys

Quartet For Thingly Time

Free download - the remastered album version of Grubby Mitts debut single, given away to celebrate the announcement of the first UK tour by the Grubby Mitts. The band will be playing artist-run spaces from Plymouth to Edinburgh, check www.thegrubbymitts.com for full list of dates and tickets for the Politics of Friendship Tour.

To A Friend's House The Way Is Never Long

The Grubby Mitts Christmas single recorded for Tom Ravenscroft's BBC 6Music festive programme. Broadcast Friday 19th December. 

Come On Home For Christmas by the Grubby Mitts

Taken from the forthcoming album "What the world needs now is", out 9th March.

The Grubby Mitts: Worm Of Eternal Return

Single from the Grubby Mitts
released December 2015

A version of this performed by children's choir and school orchestra appears on the album 'What the World Needs Now Is'.

Goodbye If You Call That Gone (SingleVersion) by The Grubby Mitts

Time is What Stops Everything Happening at at Once (PREVIEW COPY)

06_Standard

05_Home at Last

04_Lenny (2013)

03_To a Friends House the Way is Never Long

02_Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will

01_Music of Exhaustion

New Single from Grubby Mitts

Free download for a limited time only. 
Available to download through itunes etc from 2nd July

Single Launch Party: Old Queen's Head, Islington, 5th July 2012

Released on 7" white vinyl with B side "The Thing In Itself" on July 2nd through Lost Toys Records and 
distributed through Cargo UK.

See the Grubby Mitts live at Latitude Festival on 13th + 15th July 2012

Standard by The Grubby Mitts

Carl Stalling - Anxiety Montage
Chopin Nocturne 2 (as performed in The Deerhunter) 
Puccini - Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly
James Ferraro - Remnant
Above and Beyond - Good for Me
Monteverdi - Lamento della Ninfa
Judee Sill - the Donor 
Les Baxter - Dancing with tears in my eyes
Betty Boop / Cab Calloway - St James Infirmary Blues
Caretaker - what does it matter how my heart breaks
Burial - Rodent 
Claire Hamill - Winter: Sleep
Kanye West - Ghost Town
The Fall - Living Too Late
Hobo Johnson and the Lovemakers - from Tiny Desk Concert
ort - oard - Mira Calix
Toiret Status - #44
Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People

Grubby Mix (No.Six) 2018

Recorded for the re-opening of Milton Keynes Gallery, Spring 2019, then slightly tweaked about a month later, then put here to linger.  Generally after the first few minutes or so you can dance to it, and it is made out of mostly all things that are in the dance music genre.

INC. Chipmunks on 16 Speed, Grubby Mitts, Sone Institute, Il Guardiano del Faro, Tourist, Lemon Jelly, Les Baxter, Peter Broderick, Ziad Rahbani, Jlin, Mkwaju Ensemble, DJ Python, Shanti Celeste, Frankie Knuckles, George McCrae

One hour and a quarter approx

Grubby Mix 7

Shiverly Humperdink
Coil
L//E
Nobuo Uematsu
Martin Denny
Soft Channel
Oneohtrix point never
Pierre Schaeffer	
Neil Luck
Erik Thygesen with Cecilia Stam	
Nuno Canavarro
Dorothy Carter
Laraaji	
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Felicite Atkinson
Einzelgänger	
Klein
Young Thug
Space Lady

Grubby Mix 8_SOUR PERSIMMONS CHASM

Legendary conceptual artist John Baldessari interviewed by a nervous and inarticulate Andy Holden for Resonance FM in 2006 on the occasion of his exhibition at SpruthMagers, London. 

Includes music by Ivor Cutler, Tom Waits, Grubby Mitts, Johnny Parry.

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