Its been the wettest month on record, everyone is talking about the rain, and then its back to the rain. Around Firle its been very damp indeed but when the sun does poke its nose in we walk up the downs and suck in the wonderful home we have. The barn is coming on, the […]
I guess im at the age where the people you grew up with start leaving this mortol coil for another. I never really paid much heed to The Everely Brothers until recently, i always knew that they never got on together and likned them to myself in Glenn, not in close harmonay but in discord. […]
The last show of the year for me was in St Peters Church here in Firle, i was asked to sing two carols. The first one was The Holly and the Ivy, lamented in a Leonard Cohen kind of a way, it went down to mixed applause. The second was one i had written that […]
The great tradition of Carol singing in the village took on a new turn this year. Outside number 18 a hearty choir of men and woman singing to our very door, it was torch lead and windy. After the hearty carol we joined the party. Next stop Ann Barnes house, sadly she had fallen from […]
Its been a good year, i married the woman who travels with me in my heart everywhere i go, its been a good year. It was a wild wet April wedding with horizontal rain, but we were in heaven and thank you everyone who came and made our day very special. 2013 has been all […]
It was a pleasure to spend New Years with a room full of sober people playing songs with a band that were gentle and understanding, it was a pleasure to perform. Winchester Guildhall is a fine building and in the main hall we set up shop, Tim Weller on drums, Simon Little on bass and […]
Glenn has released another solo album, and when it came in the post i was first attracted to the fabulous art work, produced by Rob O Conner, safe hands indeed. In the past i have grappled with Glenn’s solo albums and found it hard to engage in them completely, im not sure where this comes […]
These days the cold air and short days lay me low, i think about the summer and how far away it was, its like going through a tunnel. Bed is a wonderful place of long warm nights dreaming of the cheese, and who moved it. Warm pillows and hot coffee in the morning. Outside grey […]
The Strypes are supporting the Arctic Monkeys on a European tour, they are treated well with loads of stage space, catering and a 45 minutes set, which is perfect for the band. Earls Court in London holds 17,000, x 2 nights and its an amazing place to be in this world, right there in the […]
39 years ago and i was 20 years old, two years older than my youngest daughter Cissy who is now 18, its all about numbers. Numbers bind our lives into volumes of fasinating stories. In 1974 i was heavily into Lou Reed, and very sadly Lou has just passed away. I met him two months […]