/ 15 January 2020 Two of the most read posts on the blog are “How much does it cost to run a campervan?” and the update I did after a few months in the newer, bigger motorhome, “75 days into our van life and European adventure – progress and costs”. I promised another update – so here’s the fun […]
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/ 1 January 2020 Happy New Year from me and Bev to our friends and family all over the world! And a huge thank you to everyone that has supported us on our travels and supported me and the band over the last year. We started the new year in Girona, in Spain – listening to parakeets in the
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/ 20 December 2019 So, at last, very pleased to say the album is out now and live on bandcamp – 10 tracks, ‘ten bob’ a track or a fiver for the lot 😉
Huge ‘thank you’ to all involved – especially Bev, the band Phil Muriel and Richy Clarke, my guests Lyndon Anderson, Phil Moore, Gary Grainger and Gav Warrender, and to Dee at Ginger Music Company in Gateshead.
/ 8 November 2019 Good afternoon at Ginger Music studio yesterday, things moving along with the new album. The title is…. Brass Neck! There are 10 tracks…4 we play in our live set, but I promise you’ve never heard them like this!2 are from my secret stash – it’s 17 years since I last recorded anything and I’m always
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/ 18 October 2019 New Album! It’s been a long, long time coming, but I’m very pleased to say a new album is on the way. 10 original songs, arranged in styles loosely inspired by various shades of the blues over the last century. It starts off with echoes of the Mississippi delta – stomping resonator slide guitar and
/ 10 September 2019 After our moonlit flit from the wild west of Sweden to Denmark, we had a lazy day wandering forest trails and eating Bev’s van-baked blueberry pie. Then, with a few days to fill before my next gig in Odense, we had time to explore some of the sights of northern Denmark… Strandby Church – a
/ 1 September 2019 On our last night in Sweden, I played the opening set for the Wild West night at the Bison Farm at Gate, near Hjo on lake Vättern. We stayed there a few days before the event and I saw the poster – listing the headline bands ‘plus ???’. I asked if they’d sorted the ???
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/ 14 August 2019 Guided by our amazing friends in Sweden, we discovered so many wonderful and strange things during our 4 week exploration of the south of this fantastic country – a real highlight of our tour so far. Swedish hospitality First at Västervik and then in Vimmerby, we were welcomed, entertained and generally spoilt rotten – by
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/ 4 August 2019 All through July I took a few pics of where we parked/camped/slept each night: Nature reserves, marinas, a bison farm, town and city centre car parks, fjords, lakes and being spoilt rotten at our Swedish friend’s houses. Our Benimar Mileo van ‘Stargazer’ is the star of this one 🙂 The ditty is a sketch of a new
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/ 19 July 2019 “Can anyone remember what they were doing 100 days ago?” I started into my story at the Västervik Live Songs and Stories event, to a friendly crowd of Swedes in the historic and picturesque Båtmansgränd (the old boatmen’s houses). April 9th was ‘day 1’, when we left Newcastle and started our new life in the
