Photograph by Alexis Pantos

It has been a great week and no doubt. Two good house concerts and three public shows, The Musician in Leicester, The Red Lion in Birmingham and ending with the very fine Barley Hall in York. I was impressed by York, it was older, more interesting and livelier than I thought. The Barley Hall was…Read more February Tour and trail of the dead kings

I landed at Stansted in a snow storm, to be faced with a 2 hour night drive on what we call back home 'summer tyres'. The hire car was a lot smaller and lighter than it looked in the picture on the Eurocar website, but it works and it got me here. A great start…Read more Snow business like show business.

Since Christmas I have been shut up in my studio, demoing new songs and working up a new set. The studio is only a few meters from the house, nevertheless, the snow was so heavy this week I had to keep a snow shovel by the door so I could dig my way back to…Read more The Touring Begins