{"id":91,"date":"2022-12-15T22:59:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T22:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2025-02-26T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T23:00:13","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m Andrew Clayton, and I&#8217;m a musician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/church-carols-4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/church-carols-4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/church-carols-4-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/church-carols-4-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/church-carols-4-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/church-carols-4.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m also a husband, father, poet, preacher, maker of trifles, planner of lunatic deeds, drinker of coffee and lover of ale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is technically a business website, in the sense that I am a self-employed professional musician. Like any solo creative, it&#8217;s much more difficult to separate the person from the practice in real life. I love working as a performer, leader, conductor, coach, teacher, planner or development officer, and I get to do wonderful things with wonderful people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Andrew-Clayton-organist-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Clayton sat at the console of the church organ, playing it.\" class=\"wp-image-16\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Andrew-Clayton-organist-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Andrew-Clayton-organist-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Andrew-Clayton-organist-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Andrew-Clayton-organist-768x767.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Andrew-Clayton-organist.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now, I am Director of Music at <a href=\"http:\/\/stmatthewswalsall.co.uk\">St Matthew&#8217;s Church, Walsall<\/a> and MD of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greatbarrbrass\/\">Great Barr Brass<\/a>. I am part of the UK team of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedadoration.com\/uk\/\">United Adoration<\/a>, organiser of Walsall Church Musicians&#8217; Social, and Third Thursday which is a very relaxed networking group based at The Table in Walsall. I am a writer and composer, and quite often a songwriter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2019-05-29-10.44.54-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-92\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2019-05-29-10.44.54-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2019-05-29-10.44.54-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2019-05-29-10.44.54-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2019-05-29-10.44.54-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2019-05-29-10.44.54-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s do some cool stuff together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Andrew Clayton, and I&#8217;m a musician. 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