In the Club!

I am delighted to be in the club - The Tuesday Club that is! Back in the day when I was in The Planet Wilson we played at The Flag in Wembley. We always had a top night thanks to Roger Millington on the desk. Well, the very same Rogerio Marauder is now keyboard player extraordinaire … Continue reading In the Club!

Loudhailer Acoustic August 2015

What an exciting night we had at Loudhailer Acoustic this month with an astounding variety of music and performance. I felt like we’d been on a journey round the world by the end of the night. Rich and I opened the show with a couple of our new Wild West songs before we headed straight … Continue reading Loudhailer Acoustic August 2015

Northumberland

A week in Northumberland - coast, sea, big skies, kites, walks, amazing views, castles, books, rock pools, wildlife, shells, sandcastles, beach treasure, weather, The Piper's Pitch and The Ship Inn - all great for songwriting... Rich took hundreds of photographs. Here's a gallery of some of them. I took a handful, they are in the gallery … Continue reading Northumberland

Loudhailer Acoustic July 2015

Thanks to everyone who came to Loudhailer Acoustic this month, it was brilliant! Really lovely to welcome new people in the audience for the first time as well as a host of fantastic performers. Rich & I opened the show with a couple of new songs inspired by Rich’s not-for-the-faint-hearted cowboy shirt - yet to … Continue reading Loudhailer Acoustic July 2015

Richard Brautigan and The Honest Ulsterman

We are delighted that our song American Dust is featured in the Honest Ulsterman, seminal Northern Ireland literary review magazine. Picking up a copy of The Honest Ulsterman in Hull University Library in the early 1970s, Philip Larkin was said to have gasped in horror, "Good God, do we subscribe to this?" How cool. Our song features in John F Barber's most … Continue reading Richard Brautigan and The Honest Ulsterman

Capturing the East Riding

Rich's photograph of Jeff Parsons and Edina Molnar at Loudhailer Acoustic was picked to be shown in the Capturing the East Riding at Work, Rest and Play touring exhibition. We went to see the exhibition at Beverley Treasure House today and I spotted Rich's photograph the moment we walked into the room. Not only does … Continue reading Capturing the East Riding