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 […]
The digger pulled the earth back like a giant can opener, and so the building work began with a sky full of sunshine. The first week started dry and warm, one of the builders, Wink, was down to his bare chest as he chipped away at the flint and stone walls. Out in the field […]
Bolton is my destination tonight, and a house on a hill filled with about 40 people who love music and Chilli Con Carne. In the front room i stood and told my story, spanning many years of Squeeze in the first half and many years of me in the second. It was so hot in […]
I have a new band and they are called Time Machine, we travel all over the world in and out of different decades. Tonight The Strypes played a sold out show in Dublin, it was well lit and sounded great. Backstage the stats. 46,000 albums in week one World wide. Everyone seemed in a good […]
Devastating news this morning, David who bakes bread in our village has thrown in the towel, to help his lovely wife run her new business. The village will not be the same. I used to be able to walk down three cottages in a row and there would be a wicker basket full of freshly […]
Each September brings with it a change of weather, a change of light, a change of attitude as the summer leaves the shoulder and the winter head buts the soul. Its getting darker earlier and the leafs are falling on the garden. A feeling of nesting is all about me as cupboards seem like they […]
After a year of negotiations we are almost there, almost there with the first spade in the ground. The transformation of a barn way out in a field nestled sweetly in the South Downs, windswept and in waiting, our home. The plans are all drawn up and agreed, the planning permission is granted and the […]
Woke up in a hotel room, looked for my socks and i had not packed any fresh ones for my day, i was frozen to the core. Yesterdays socks always make me feel like i have one foot, sometimes two, in the past. I was in a grump. Breakfast was basic, not very nice and […]