As, hopefully you already know, the third Grand Gestures album ‘Third’ is officially released this Friday 19th December. It’s a worthy addition to the Grand Gestures canon and, having been fortunate enough to get a promo of the record, it’s was reviewed on the blog a few days ago.

Ahead of the record’s release, TGG main man Jan Burnett kindly gave up his time to discuss aspects of the new record and also take a look back at his musical year.

Rather than being a radical departure from the past albums Jan feels that ‘Third’ builds on the previous albums.

“I wanted to continue to explore creating moods and atmospheres, often chopping away rather a lot from the original piece.

‘Third’ once again adds to the range of singers who have contributed to Grand Gestures albums and Jan admits that it took a little while to pluck up the…