September 2026 Update! Thanks folks for returning to my website - It has been an eventful time since my last update - with simultaneous good and less good news. Before that, a quick thank you to all who have purchased physical copies of my book - it...
Thanks all for reading my 2025 winter summary of another enjoyable year in music. I'm on an enforced slow-down in my gigging just now as I'm having ongoing treatment for nerve-related hand issues. I'm having problems on two fronts - one is carpal tunnel related, for...
Thanks to all friends old and new I've met along the way during my 2025 gigs, I'm settling into a much less frantic and very enjoyable summer festival season in the last few years! Of course I had a big enforced break in the summer of...
Here we are in the middle of a heatwave just like many recent years! Hope you are all coping. Back in March we had our annual St Patrick's weekend gig marathon with The Rogues - just 5 gigs in 3 days this time, luxury! By semi-retired standards,...
Hello again - hope you all had a great summer of festivals, holidays or whatever! It was mixed fortunes for me, as while I was getting ready for the Saturday afternoon show at Southwell Festival at the beginning of July, I leaned on a safety rail...
A belated Happy New Year to all! This post is prompted by a rush of gigs coming in (I wish!). St Pat's weekend is going to be busy with The Rogues this time - volunteers to drive me home at the end of it gratefully welcomed! 06/02/2024...
March 4th 2023 - gig list update. Thanks for re-visiting my website news pages! The main purpose of this post is to update my gig list below, and to confirm the permanent price drop for my (mostly) light-hearted autobiography, which you can see in my shop here: It's...
Like many other musicians' websites, nothing has been happening here for quite some time because of the Covid crisis. I certainly hope you have all emerged as unscathed as possible from all this! Also like many other musicians, without others to play with in sessions or...
Hello all - and a Happy new Year! Last summer's festival season proved to be my busiest ever - mostly sound engineering, but also performing, MCing and stage managing. In fact the events continued well into the Autumn, with the final blast at the Leeds CCE...
Thanks for coming back and keeping up with my news folks! It was a relatively quiet winter period gig-wise - highlights being Stockton and Spalding Folk Clubs in January as a duo with Chris Parkinson. Stockton was the first folk club I ever played at, all of...