House concerts are mixed and varied, this one today in Kendal was outstanding, in the living room of a farmhouse with sandwiches cakes and meringues. On a cattle farm way up a hillside was where I found myself, it was so much fun to wonder through some songs on my own for the lovely people […]
Have you ever sat in the bath pulled out the plug and watched the water drain away leaving your body as an island in the middle, no neither have I. But thats what it feels like being out on tour, I can feel the past draining away revealing the clean tired but relaxed me like […]
A marathon drive from Preston down to Cheltenham back up to Warwick On Eden and then on to Perth in Scotland, miles and miles on the new clock. The God of Audi would be proud of me. The show in Perth was totally amazing, in a barn at the back of a wonderful house on […]
The road is not less traveled in my mind, its a distance between two places the past and the present. Touring is taking shape, and its building slowly. Boo is very good company in the car and we talk for days about this that and the other, its often very funny and hard to concentrate […]
I wake up tired, I look for the light and there it is. Driving South I noticed how wide and open the sky had become, clouds hanging like cotton down upon the green hills and mountains. Some snow covered the fields as the blue of day cut a shape in the sky above. The road […]
Up the road to Cavan and a small rehearsal room in the Town Hall, a bash through some songs and off to the show down the road in Carrick. A lovely small venue by the dock, and to top all things a nice curry on the high street. A treat. It was a long drive […]
I had no idea that solo touring could be such a work out, four days standing still after a storm to get a ferry, and finally on day five its anchors away. Sadly I have missed three shows and will come back in May to recover that ground. Tonight I would have been in Cavan, […]
11 hours in my car from home to Holyhead and then the storm came in and then the snow fell and then I had to think on my feet. At the Holyhead carpark where you line up to get on the ferry I was minding my own business when a cortege of cars pulled up […]
Its the beginning of another new year and there are shows on the horizon to look forward to. Here are my thoughts and feelings about being on tour without the safety net of a band in nice suits. Irish Tour The Irish tour takes me around in a massive circle, i have not been on […]
Message Chris.. Your rhythm guitar is quite unique. Unique as in amazing. Whats up there? Very Bob Weir, are you a fan? Thanks for what you do. Peace Love and Mischief… Glenn How nice to receive such emails from fans, obviously this is not the man on my left, stage centre. 2017 has come to […]