Happy Christmas : ) x (click to see performance!)
A wild wind is blowing from the Welsh Mountains, finding the cracks in my quiet house. The small bells of Sheinton Church are ringing in the blackness – must be Christmas Eve… x
Happy Christmas : ) x (click to see performance!)
A wild wind is blowing from the Welsh Mountains, finding the cracks in my quiet house. The small bells of Sheinton Church are ringing in the blackness – must be Christmas Eve… x
Shenzhen
MY SECOND SHENZHEN GIG was deep in the city, at a club called ‘Here’. The Shenzhen night was storm humid – a sweat bead on the face of China, diffusing neon, tube lights wrapped in storm wrack. The city is amazing – like cruising the LA of Blade Runner – though cleaner and more affluent...
Mermaids and Volcanoes
Santorini has been a place to settle – find stillness and consider new music from a calm place. The little town a confection of stolid earth walled houses, built one upon another, falling higgledy up the caldera. From a distance it looks like snow crusting the lava… In a deep shadow cellar an old man carved...
Finishing new album ‘Atlantic Drifter’ in Santorini
After the liquid heat of Bangkok and the beautiful people of a two day helter-skelter Welsh festival – watching the evening light flood a mountain valley from my balcony in Santorini is as close to paradise as I can imagine. Sitting in the warm dry Aegean wind, as summer softly starts to fade… So heaven...
Prif Lwyfan Llanerch – Radnor Festival
Most of a day at 8 miles high, a crinkle foil moon in the Arabian night – misty eyed now and foggy bottomed – heading tomorrow for the Bird on the Rock Tea Rooms and a main stage Radnor Festival performance.
Thai Tour – Wunderbar and Zoo
Gigs at Zoo club, Pra Nathong and with Ross Ainslie (Salsa Celtica), Alice Orton, Mick Callan and Nigel Richards (IndiaAlba) at Wunderbar in Pra Arthit Today is the day of the winter wind. My friend wrapped herself in shawls against the chill – while I sighed for joy at the slightly less impossible heat, and...
Thai Tour ’14 – Hatti’s story
THAIS BELIEVE THAT FREEING A LIFE BRINGS BENEFIT AND BLESSING. This one ancient and arcane belief holds within it the heart of mercy, the thing so obviously missing in our grab-it-all society. The reality is more mundane and questionable – on the banks of the river, plastic buckets hold fish, eels and turtles, caught to...
Thai tour ’14 – the dim lit subterranea of the ancient mind
ON ONE HAND I DON”T AT ALL BELIEVE IN OMENS – dangerous things full of bird sorcery and superstition. Flying to Bangkok tonight for gigs + workshops, I was feeling sad saying ‘farewell’ to my kids. Then I saw this fractured rainbow at Manchester Airport, like the ancient rainbow bridge from star to star… and...
Shrewsbury Poetry book launch for ‘Postcards’
THERE’S A SAYING I LIKE that every show is about the audience. Shrewsbury Poetry curated by Liz Lefroy this week had one of the warmest and most engaged I’ve encountered in a long time. It was a joy to be involved – thanks so much to everyone there x ...
Booklaunch/ Exhibition/ Gig for ‘Postcards from the Road’ at 86’d Gallery
“I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire: For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.” A WONDERFUL time at 86’d GALLERY, stuck in a high window looking over the late-lit Severn, each side surrounded by an engine assault of high day bikers, cruising the strip. Through the open window, voiles carving in the...
