Really pleased to be back at the Cavern SW20 in the coming weeks on 27th November and 22 January.I’ll be ding two sets of about 45 mins each on both night. I’ll be featuring mainly my own songs but I’ll play a few covers to contextualise the songs and my journey. Thanks to Michael Hingston, Henry Trezise and Viv Philpot for the photos.
Looking forward greatly to playing The Cavern 100 Coombe Ln, West Wimbledon, London SW20 on the 26th June. This solo evening will be an opportunity to perform songs from my recent albums and knock out a few favourite covers. I’ll likely even dust of ‘Raynes Park’ because after all that was where I was born and as you may know “I never caught a Greyhound Bus I caught the 131” Hope to see many friendly faces.
A demo of a new song. Moving towards a more positive phase of writing I think. Playing the wonderful and beautiful Hofnew Senator rebuilt, repaired and customised by David Bourne after it was found in a skip!
Once in a while a gig comes along that exceeds all expectations and for me my appearance @ The Sound Lounge on 28 January 2024 was just that. Having been booked to support US singer songwriter RJ Chesney I was all prepared, harmonicas and guitar in hand to blast out a few of my songs that over the years have become favourites amongst my little loyal band of mates. I had also decided to throw in a new song for good measure. The end of 2023 had been a difficult time with serious family illness, albeit thankfully with a happy ending, so I was well up for a gig. So imagine my delight when my dear friends Keiron Marshall and Lars Hammersland announced that they’d love to join me. ‘Over the moon’ hardly does my feelings or the moment justice. The gig was captured by Setmixer, who work closely with the Sound Lounge, and subsequently I mixed and mastered the tracks. The resulting ‘live album’ is available now.
Lars Hammersland plays Piano and Hammond Organ – sometimes at the same time! Keiron Marshall plays lead guitar and adds backing vocals. I’m in there on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica. The result is magic. Spontaneous, joyous, melancholy and mad. The tracks:
Looking forward to the next time. Its available all over the place including a few cd’s from me.
My sessions night @ the Sound Lounge was mentioned this month in Country Music People magazine, thank you Michael Hingston, and to say I’m made up is an understatement. So take a look at whats in the diary for November and December.
Live session this Wednesday evening with Nick T form the wonderful Nick T Band. Nick and I will be singing songs and excahanging stories in the round on Wednesday 8th November at The Sound Lounge in Sutton. Its a free admission night and will be pretty damn cool. Nick is a great singer, performenr and raconteur! I’ve a few cover lined up and tehse will be interspersed with songs from my new collection ‘WEhat happened to Freedom’ which is available all over the place digitally and hard copy from me.
The Decemeber session is also in planning and will take place on 13th December. In line with previous years I’m inviting back guests from my nights this year! Lots are saying yes so it will be a night of quick fire sets and Xmas fun.
I have a new collection of 8 songs about to be released to the world via CDBaby. I’d been out walking with camera in hand and my plan was to try and take one photo for each of the new songs. It shouldn’t have been difficuly but it was. But this pic seems to say so much about the collection but in particulary the song ‘What happened to freedom’ that it has become the CD cover photo and the photo for the online songs. I’ll be posting links to the songs very shortly in the meantime this is me singing an early version of the title track during and internet live stream last year. At that time lyrics were still developing, the last verse hadnt been written and the song even had a different name! LOL The collection even includes one or two happy songs. The track listing is as follow:
What happened to freedom, The Strength of a Woman, Set the children free, The Rooks and the Ravens, The Robin, Look upon my life, Highways Cities and Motorway Towns and He sees me.
A new song written for and dedicated to Hannah White AMAUK Top Song award winner. Video recorded by Hannah at the Sound Lounge @ the Americana Kinda Thing where I performed in the round with the excellent Andrew Green of the Strawberry Fires.
I’d read the old Longfellow poem and was inspired to reverse the narrative to the fellas perspective and transplant the song a couple of hundred years in the future. A gentle delivery on a 1950s archtop. Filmed in May 2020 but it has a very wintery fell so quite valid. Lol
This is a cut – live in my studio – a bit reverb mad but you know I love a bit of reverb. Joking aside – this song tries to put thoughts together about where we are in the Uk at the present. Sad times indeed.
Looking forward to playing a special gig on the 27 August @ Folk In The Park and decided to take along souvenir CD. Its a little bit of a retrospective plus two new songs. Its been quite a challenge reviewing the older tracks, remixing and remastering them but its been worthwhile. There are a few hard to find songs here including Arlington, Cold Steel Heart and Take A Walk With Me. These were recorded with Attack of The Kodakromes and appeared in videos but not on formal releases. They sound pucker. These cd’s will only be available from me.
I’ve also been sharpening pencils and crayons and have had a bit of fun coming up with a cover.
Come along on the 27th its gonna be good 🙂
