2012 5/52 – Five Things I Liked This Week – Feat @birdeatsbaby, @maryepworth, #popuppeople and More Besides

1) Birdeatsbaby – Incitatus Brighton based dark cabaret outfit Birdeatsbaby have just released this BRILLIANT new video, and like the last video for “Feast Of Hammers” it’s deliciously spooky. And makes me scared of bands… “Feast Of Hammers” – the album – is released on February 20th and I’m supporting them at their London launch...

“Little Battles” vBlog Episode 1 Online Now! Brighton, Birdeatsbaby, BBC 6 Music and Singing To Seabirds

The first in my brand new video blog series to celebrate my new album coming out on April 9th, woohoo! The album launch extravaganza will be at the Half Moon in Herne Hill, London SE24 on Wednesday 11th April with tickets available very soon. “In This Boat” will be released on February 14th as digital...

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 should have heard of her...

2012 3/52 – Five Things I Liked This Week – Feat Gil Scott Heron, Martin Luther King & Handcrafted Chocolate

Click to see the rest of this week’s photos 1) “The Last Holiday : A Memoir” by Gil Scott Heron I’m so thankful to a friend for introducing me to the wonderful work of Gil Scott Heron a number of years before he sadly died, and though I’ve only just started reading this newly published...

“Slow Puncture” On BBC Introducing – Listen Again + Tickets For Feb Shows With @hiband & @birdeatsbaby

Get the song here on a pay-what-you-can basis… I was very excited and pleased to receive an email from the Tom Robinson show last week informing me that “Slow Puncture” would be played on the show early on Monday morning (today), as a result of being selected from songs uploaded to the BBC Introducing Uploader....

2012 2/52 – Five Things I Liked This Week – Feat Chris T-T, Arctic Hooping & Bike Doctor

Click to see the rest of this week’s photos 1) Chris T-T – “Binker” – the video! I don’t know how I missed this on Twitter last week but I only just stumbled across this gorgeous film. Chris’ 2011 Edinburgh Festival show “Disobedience: Chris T-T Sings A.A. Milne” was one of the musical highlights of...

Category: Travel

Oxford – Tonight!

Posted 02 May 2011 in Gigs,Music,Official News,She Makes War,Travel
The fabulous Little Fish present a night of music and poetry hosted by George Chopping with She Makes War, Djevara Redux, Spring Offensive and Adam Barnes. This is not an ordinary gig! Little Fish will kick things off at 7.30 and we’ll all be playing multiple short sets throughout the...

South West War Tour – More Photos

I’m nicely tucked up in bed in Oxford – the scene of tomorrow’s last gig of this short tour for me and a great night of music and poetry at Port Mahon, doors 7pm for a 7.30 sharp start. More photos from the tour so far can be viewed here...

Lomography Love + Live In London Tomorrow Night!

STOP PRESS: Tomorrow night I will be playing a short set as part of the open mic section of the London Lomography Gallery Store’s grand opening party for their new LomoHub events space! Entry is free, full info is here, cool stuff starts at 6 and I will definitely be...

#wartour Propaganda #5 : Stratford-upon-Avon + Leicester vBlog

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON: Bookpirate‘s kind offer of two days rest and reflection at his house in S-u-A towards the end of the tour was gratefully accepted and was the perfect pause to catch up on the Oxford and Cambridge video blogs, work on some new lyrics and play my first official kitchen...

#wartour Propaganda #2 : Oxford

Three jam-packed days of filming and social media reporting work followed my jaunt to Leeds, punctuated by frantic sessions spent hammering out replies to a rapidly accumulating pile of unanswered emails. It’s all very well swanning off around the country with a guitar but life, apparently, refuses to stop and...

#wartour Propaganda #1: LEEDS (and vBlog episode 20)

More tour photos here. LEEDS. Steel skies, steam rising from the mouths of happy crowds. The Hope And Social Snowball: singing the Frog Chorus and Living On A Prayer on the town hall steps while Hell’s Angels tie the knot inside, mulled wine and mince pies with friendly strangers, music,...

Tour Update + Japan Videos

The Winter War Tour is shaping up rather nicely and though it’s going to be a stressful week and a half getting work stuff completed before heading off I am really looking forward to actually getting out of London. Massive thanks so everyone who’s helped so far, from retweeting my...