I sat in my seat and wept like a baby as the plane veered right then left, up then down, shuddering like a transit van on a cobbled street. The pilot said it would last 40 minutes, and it did, the email from the weather pilot said the same thing. I was so tired, and […]
Why am I so surprised when I look out of a hotel window and find myself stolen from life, schizophrenia and the travelling musician. For over 40 years I have checked in and out of hotels on the road and found myself at this point during my stay. Home has mostly been the other place, […]
Since my Irish jaunt I have been playing mostly all of the time, up and down the country to some small audiences and some larger ones too. It doesn’t matter, its all part of my journey. The sad thing is that I have not had time to be at home, a lovely home it is […]
Castlebar was a total surprise as I drove into town all I saw was kids hanging about in track suits and things looked a bit grim, but the club I played in and the people there were beautiful. My B&B was pine city and quite, a nice place to say but the crowning glory was […]
Leaving home since 1978, back on tour, this time until December this year, it’s now May 1st. Leaving home never is easy and even more so these days as I grasp an older age and feel less bushy tailed about touring. I do love the shows and meeting people its the travel and the bits […]
Four months into 2019 and the best if yet to come, but first the balance. My first workshop of the year was in a primary school in East London, teaching, or attempting to, 5 and 7 year olds a country song called Put the woman in charge. A Beth Neilson Chapman song. 95% Muslim children […]
I have had a lot of writing rooms and desks in my time, from a notebook on my single bed at Combe Avenue to this wonderful cabin here in my new house in Sussex. Where ever I write I like to have me around, my school books diaries and note pads from down the years. […]
Way back before ‘Cool for Cats’ but some time after ‘Take Me I’m Yours’ I was in my flat with my good friend Barny, we were having fun and being silly. Somehow we ended up wrestling on the floor and tipping the room upside down, i think we may have been drunk. At one point […]
As i look through the many photographs on my computer i can see that there is so much to say about the journey, the band, the songs. It’s completely nuts to think that ‘Cool for Cats’ came out almost 40 years ago and here i still am. Singing those lines, like i must work harder […]
It’s here the big New Year, time to let nature sleep, so far it’s been a calm couple of weeks, this always leads to optimistic thoughts. A good thing. To find out what its like to write again i have come down to a house in Cornwall, looking out to sea there is calm. In […]