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Castlebar was a total surprise as I drove into town all I saw was kids hanging about in track suits...

03 May 2019

May B

Leaving home since 1978, back on tour, this time until December this year, it’s now May 1st....

09 Apr 2019

Workshop Suey

Four months into 2019 and the best if yet to come, but first the balance. My first workshop of the...

09 Apr 2019

Folly Friendship

I have had a lot of writing rooms and desks in my time, from a notebook on my single bed at Combe...

14 Feb 2019

Wrist action

Way back before ‘Cool for Cats’ but some time after ‘Take Me I’m...

21 Jan 2019

Tiny Ships

As i look through the many photographs on my computer i can see that there is so much to say about...

11 Jan 2019

Composing myself

It’s here the big New Year, time to let nature sleep, so far it’s been a calm couple of weeks,...
To be in tour is to be oneself. It was a massive task for my agent to dodge around the country and...
It’s been awhile. I was on a train travelling up to play a show with Francis Dunnery in Cumbria a...

20 Aug 2018

Squeaky Wheel

When the Combine appears at your window you know that Summer is wrapping up its might, the heat has...
Today I received a box of books here at the Edinburgh festival, where Boo Hewerdine and myself are...

24 Jul 2018

Dust to Dust

Summer has scorched the earth and the soul with its wonderful oven like heat. I’m not one for hot...
I have been hosting songwriting retreats for 26 years, this year was a time of great reflection as...

08 Jun 2018

Tree Bon

Ah the smell of the open road, this time back in Squeeze gears. Blackburn and a warm up show not to...
I watched The Defiant Ones with Louise on the sofa this week and was moved in so many ways, its one...
House concerts are mixed and varied, this one today in Kendal was outstanding, in the living room...

13 Apr 2018

5 Years

Have you ever sat in the bath pulled out the plug and watched the water drain away leaving your...

07 Apr 2018

Hurry On Sundown

A marathon drive from Preston down to Cheltenham back up to Warwick On Eden and then on to Perth in...

27 Mar 2018

Oh The Glamour

The road is not less traveled in my mind, its a distance between two places the past and the...
I wake up tired, I look for the light and there it is. Driving South I noticed how wide and open...

08 Mar 2018

Doh A Deer

Up the road to Cavan and a small rehearsal room in the Town Hall, a bash through some songs and off...

05 Mar 2018

Connected

I had no idea that solo touring could be such a work out, four days standing still after a storm to...

04 Mar 2018

Irish Jig

11 hours in my car from home to Holyhead and then the storm came in and then the snow fell and then...
Its the beginning of another new year and there are shows on the horizon to look forward to. Here...
Message Chris.. Your rhythm guitar is quite unique. Unique as in amazing. Whats up there? Very Bob...