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 […]
A positive use of this energy would be to begin a totally new and innovative project that consumes a great deal of energy and that will be largely identified with you when it is completed. You need to assert your individuality at this time, and this is a constructive way of doing it. (my reading […]
My good friend Stuart tells me that Squeeze played here in 89, supported in part by the Hothouse Flowers, i remember little of the day and wonder where my life has gone. Today the festival has an unshaven quality about it, young and full of rascals on the rave. Headline acts sound massive in the […]
Without too much of a do, with oddly little rehearsal, we fled off to our first festival of the season. The band in fine form as ever, close but no cigars. A warm up show in Navan, next door to Strypes world Cavan, and a late night in a tent outside Dunnes stores. It seemed […]