Jem, ace drummer, bosom old friend, and now hip successful uber muso touring with Roisin Murphy of Moloko and THURSTON MOORE, (yes, I just name-dropped my pal and colleague also playing drums for THURSTON MOORE), found time outside his packed hip schedule to come and record the drums for some of the album tracks. We…
Edinburgh’s not exactly ‘hotting up’, as we have had a very damp and unprepossessing summer. But the festival circus is about to hit town, posters are going up, the unique festival aroma of stale beer, glitter, popcorn and rain will soon be perfuming the air of Auld Reekie; and I have the next tidbit of choice…
Well, what can I say? Brigid’s made an amazing video that pretty much says it all…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShyWty5X524. We had a great time playing a bunch of dates up and down the UK. Hosts were incredibly kind, audiences were lovely and welcoming; gigs were almost all sold out and standing room only-so it’s a very big THANK…
So, I’ve been a bit rubbish about keeping the blog updated, but enthused by the example of Johnny The Pictish Trail/Lost Map’s very funny blogs, I’m getting back into it. The main news is that I’m leaving with Anne, the lovely cello player, on Thursday for a tour of IRELAND! I have never had the…
Started tour diary, half of it mysteriously vanished. Annoying. I’ll sum up – Totnes- Studio lounge-lovely. Unexplained total pedal failure was something of a bummer, but the crowd was very understanding. Special thanks to Katie Whitehouse for arranging it. Totnes itself was notable for being a bit sunny, and affable. I was put up…
So I’ve got a day and a half before I take to the road and during this time I’m apparently going to do a bunch more rehearsing with the loop pedal so that I get it right on the first time rather than the third time; I’m going to pack all the bits, make more…
I’m just making some flyers with the next few gig dates on them and I thought it might be an idea to post them up. It’s been quite hard work booking them, so it’s nice to look down and see a good number coming to fruition. For a few months I’ve been really busy with…
So after being coached in gig booking by wise Jedi (in brief: be prepared to combine the mundane side of amateur detective skills to find out who promoters are and ring bar staff in an ingratiating fashion to winkle out people’s phone numbers. If you can’t believe in the worth of your material, you won’t…
