Tales from Hebden Bridge (Part 2)!

On Sunday night (Dec 6th) I finished off my 2 week tour of Hebden Bridge, well- I've played there the last 2 Sundays anyway. This one was the Hole Note Acoustic Club upstairs in The Hole In T'Wall pub, and I was doing the main booked 'guest' slot.

I love the ambience of the room, complete with a range of comfy sofas and with the lights down low. People listen to the artists (most of them anyway!) and I felt I held people's attention during my set. This featured the debut of my Marc Cohn cover 'Dance Back From The Grave', complete with Hole Note host Craig on muted trumpet, it sounded superb! I played several of my own songs too including 'You Never Understood' off the new album. All in all another night I will go back to soon, the rest of the performers were all very interesting and the standard, for what is essentially an open mic night, was excedingly high.

There should be some photos to follow soon too!

Speaking of photos, check out the ones from last Sunday at B@R Place. I'm also using one of them as my default pic on myspace. BAR Place photos


HOW TO HEAR ALL MY SONGS PLUS MY 'SONG OF THE WEEK'

Introducing my new player which enables you to play any song from my back catalogue. That's 45 (!) songs, in full, to stream for free. Here it is!!

SONG OF THE WEEK

With such a big back catalogue, people often ask me which songs I would recommend they play. It's impossible for me to narrow it down to a favourite so what I've decided to do is focus on one song per week, and for the first week the song is:

COLD COLD DAY (CATT MIX)

Each week I'll do a bit of promo and blurb about one song. Starting with the above one. The first one I'm choosing is down near the bottom of the list: number 43. It was recorded in 2006 and is Ian Catt's remix of 'Cold Cold Day'. Ian Catt is a well-known producer, perhaps most noted for his work with St.Etienne, whom he also plays bass for. In addition to myself, Paul F and Sally Rivers, Ian plays bass and additional guitars on this version.




This Sunday (13th) I have another gig at the New Inn, Barwick-in-Elmet, which is near Cross Gates, off the A64, heading out of Leeds. It's a beautiful village with a huge maypole! It is also of course one of my most regular solo venues and I'll be playing the full night, starting approx 9pm.