2012 4/52 – Five Things I Liked This Week – Feat Grace Petrie, Brighton and Musical Broccoli
Click to see the rest of this week’s photos 1) Grace Petrie A wonderfully inspiring songwriter and performer I met at last weekend’s Midwinter Picnic 4. She makes music that really gets you in the gut, and her rousing lyrics are still echoing around my head a week on. I...
My 2011 Highlights : A Magical Year of Music & Adventuring
Ever since I was a teenager I’ve wished away the second half of December, too excited about the fresh opportunities for restructuring and refocusing the New Year seems to bring to hold my concentration to the end of the year – some character trait of mine is looking for an...
Getting Hoopy, Loopy & Sociable at the #hsgardenparty
A few months ago Rich Huxley and Ben Denison asked me to get involved with a John Popham filmed a little hooping tutorial with a lovely demo from Jooles – make sure you check out the other videos on his YouTube account for more of a flavour of the day....
Tricky Tour : South America : Photos
It’s my birthday and I’ll blog if I want to…more posts to come on the last few cities we visited on the Tricky tour but I’m disappearing to Dorset for a couple of days to rest and look at lighthouses so here are all my digital photos from the past...
Tricky Tour : South America : Day 5 : Buenos Aires
SEE ALL MY SOUTH AMERICAN TOUR PHOTOS ON FLICKR HERE… On a hectic tour like this it’s a real treat to wake up in the city you’re playing in that evening, with a lovely late afternoon lobby call of 4.30 and the possibility of adventure lying ahead. Of course, having...
Tricky Tour : South America : Day 3 & 4 : Montevideo-Buenos Aires-Cordoba-Buenos Aires
TIRED. Yesterday was a great example of a day when my “All glamour, all the time” mantra came in handy. For anyone still under the impression that the life of a touring musician is all pink fluffy clouds, constant sexual gratification and champagne will be sorely disappointed to hear that...
Tricky Tour : South America : Day 1 & 2 : Uruguay
SEE ALL MY SOUTH AMERICAN TOUR PHOTOS ON FLICKR HERE… +++ Greetings from my hotel room in Montevideo, Uruguay, where I’m having a last listen through 30-odd Tricky songs I’ve been rehearsing for the last couple of weeks in preparation for a two week tour of South America! Having last...
