Last week:

A busy and totally enjoyable week with another visit to the Chemic Tavern last Thursday with Dan and Ol. We played a different trio of songs this time, and it sounded very good. No two weeks are the same at an open mic so it was good experience to go back and play again after the previous week. We're now looking forward to doing Todstock this coming Sunday (Aug 8th). We're in the 'Acoustic Tent', playing from 2pm til 3pm.


Here's the poster! My name's on there, spelt correctly, job done!










On Saturday afternoon the BitterSweetShop (that's Katie and I) had another gig, this time at the Yarnbury RFC Beer Festival. The club had gone to a lot of trouble to make their innaugural beer fest a success and it looked like it was indeed a great success! There was a stage errected, and thankfully it stayed dry for our set....always a nervous moment given the combination of the British Summer and outdoor gigs. I did a couple of solo tunes and then we performed about half an hour as a duo.

This Week:

In addition to the above mentioned Todstock, I'm doing a full Friday night session at the Abbey Inn in Bramley. That's starting at around 9pm.

A-Z of Music:

I'm still listening to the over-long Fleetwood Mac album 'Say You Will'. But I've also had my ears open to some other great tunes. I'm sure all musicians have had this experience, where you learn a song and then wonder why you weren't playing it years ago? Well I found this with Billy Joel's 'Always A Woman To Me'. What a song! I've always known this, but only just got around to learning it. It'll be in on Friday night!!

Stock Cars on the BBC!

Just a quick plug for my other great passion, which has found it's way onto BBC 1 for the next few Monday nights. 10:30pm, straight after the news. You have to watch it and thus understand what I keep rambling on about! Here's the link to the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrqGEGl13Qo