Happy Christmas : ) x (click to see performance!)
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Happy Christmas : ) x (click to see performance!)

by Jonathan on Dec 22, 2014 •
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 (Fairytale of New York at Symphony Hall, Birmingham with Becky Ramsurn, Sarah Jeffrey – Samantha Norman,  Helen Lancaster,...
Shenzhen
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Shenzhen

by Jonathan on Sep 21, 2014 •
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 –...
Mermaids and Volcanoes
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Mermaids and Volcanoes

by Jonathan on Sep 7, 2014 •
MERMAIDS AND VOLCANOES… Oia 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…...
Making new album 'Atlantic Drifter'
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Making new album ‘Atlantic Drifter’

by Jonathan on Sep 5, 2014 •
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...
Prif Lwyfan Llanerch - Radnor Festival
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Prif Lwyfan Llanerch – Radnor Festival

by Jonathan on Aug 25, 2014 •
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
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Thai Tour – Wunderbar and Zoo

by Jonathan on Aug 24, 2014 •
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...
Thai Tour '14 - Hatti's story
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Thai Tour ’14 – Hatti’s story

by Jonathan on Aug 23, 2014 •
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,...
Thai tour '14 - the dim lit subterranea of the ancient mind
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Thai tour ’14 – the dim lit subterranea of the ancient mind

by Jonathan on Aug 22, 2014 •
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...
Shrewsbury Poetry book launch for 'Postcards'
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Shrewsbury Poetry book launch for ‘Postcards’

by Jonathan on Aug 8, 2014 •
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
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Booklaunch/ Exhibition/ Gig for ‘Postcards from the Road’ at 86’d Gallery

by Jonathan on Jul 27, 2014 •
“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...
Postcards from the Road
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Postcards from the Road

by Jonathan on Jul 25, 2014 •
New book Postcards from the Road now available directly through this site – £22 including shipping – a significant saving : ) Click on the cover to see a selection of pages REVIEW BY NEW YORK’S “ARTnews” MAGAZINE click on image to go there : ) http://www.artnews.com/2014/06/19/new-photo-books-on-cartier-bresson-robert-frank-and-more/  
CDs and Books now for sale direct : )
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CDs and Books now for sale direct : )

by Jonathan on Jul 25, 2014 •
CDs and BOOKS can now be purchased directly through this site – with a significant SAVING on prices elsewhere. Check out the STORE tab to see what’s available and get in touch through CONTACT to order securely using cheque, direct transfer, Paypal or barter : )                ...
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BOOK LAUNCH Gig & exhibition at 86’d Gallery, Ironbridge

by Jonathan on Jul 22, 2014 •
Gig and exhibition at 86’d gallery, Ironbridge launching a new book of tour photos. Private view this Wednesday x
Moon Dappling a Night Garden
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Moon Dappling a Night Garden

by Jonathan on Jul 22, 2014 •
MOON DAPPLING A NIGHT GARDEN An improvisation for a warm evening by Rob Carolan (hang drum) and Jonathan Day (alto). Played in the forest hall at Mellowcroft in the Welsh mountains. Cover image by Ed Lam : )
Wenlock Festival
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Wenlock Festival

by Jonathan on Jul 6, 2014 •
WENLOCK FESTIVAL was a haze of summer skies, screeching swifts and rooks squabbling in the twilight. Lovely audiences plumped on strawberries and ice cream – awash with tea and Pimms, willing us on to be our best. Ancient Abbey stones still warm from the sun was all the amplification we...
Folk on the Park
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Folk on the Park

by Jonathan on Jun 30, 2014 •
  Sky is cerulean blue, filled with the appealing screech (who would have thought those words would appear together?) of swifts and martens. Must be summer… and time for a Shropshire festival. Shropshire is divided into the Southern hills and Northern plain, that melds slowly and inevitably into Cheshire. I...
Farewell then, South China Sea, you have been beautiful… but Folk on the Park waits for no one : )
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Farewell then, South China Sea, you have been beautiful… but Folk on the Park waits for no one : )

by Jonathan on Jun 30, 2014 •
Farewell then, South China Sea, you have been beautiful… but Folk on the Park waits for no one : ) #AtlanticDrifterTour http://folkonthepark.co.uk/  
Atlantic Drifter in Hong Kong - gigs - Hong Kong Design Institute
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Atlantic Drifter in Hong Kong – gigs – Hong Kong Design Institute

by Jonathan on Jun 30, 2014 •
PERFORMANCE AT HKDI – I HAVE SO LOVED PLAYING IN ASIA! The warm enthusiasm of Hong Kong listeners is lovely : ) … I’m singing about a neolithic circle, half lost in the North Atlantic – playing a huge Chinese drum that was in the venue – swopped for my...
Atlantic Drifter in Hong Kong - gigs - Peel Fresco
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Atlantic Drifter in Hong Kong – gigs – Peel Fresco

by Jonathan on Jun 12, 2014 •
  PEEL STREET FRESCO, CENTRAL, HONG KONG.Walking from the Soho levels down, threading between dark wooden restaurants, Peel street begins with the reek of incense, throat-scratchingly intense. The always burning smoke in a small alcove, red tiled, functional, with an indecipherable inscription hidden in a lockable niche. PEEL STREET FRESCO,...
Atlantic Drifter Tour goes to Hong Kong
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Atlantic Drifter Tour goes to Hong Kong

by Jonathan on May 31, 2014 •
Flying out of Europe in the rain – like pushing through gray felt, fibres catching at the wings. A brilliant blue was with us most of the way, sunshine curling round the top of the world, stained the colour of air. Catching a little fitful sleep I woke to the...
Handpan Gathering, Mellowcroft, Llandegley in the Welsh Mountains
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Handpan Gathering, Mellowcroft, Llandegley in the Welsh Mountains

by Jonathan on May 26, 2014 •
On Sunday we played in a carved wooden hall in a forest on a Welsh mountainisde – a place like Bjorn’s house at the feet of the Misty Mountains. Such a lovely quality of listening from a wonderfully tranquil audience – as if the clear, starred night and the dark...
Cefn Ymarfer Coed Naturial festival in Coed Nant Gain
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Cefn Ymarfer Coed Naturial festival in Coed Nant Gain

by Jonathan on May 26, 2014 •
: ) Cefn Ymarfer Coed Naturial festival in Coed Nant Gain was a truly exceptional gig : ) Iliffe the forest Steward is 7 feet tall with fiery red hair and as spindly as a birch sapling. Songbirds and insects buzzed a continuo for our songs – yellow archangel, stitchwort...
Atlantic drifter - summer tour '14 : )
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Atlantic drifter – summer tour ’14 : )

by Jonathan on Apr 20, 2014 •
Very happy to announce this year’s summer tour. Hope to see you somewhere on the road! x 25.3 Helsinki, Finland   http://www.aalto.fi 26.3 Arabiankatu, Finland   http://www.aalto.fi 27.3 Kapelli, Finland   http://valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/fi/tulossa-en 2–3.5 Landed Festival, Rhayader, Wales   http://www.landedfestival.co.uk 4.5 Sun Festival, Severn Meadows, Low Town, Bridgnorth   http://tiny.cc/myn9dx 17.5 Celf Ymarfer Coedwig Naturial, Coed...
New festivals just in : Landed Festival, Rhayader and Folk on the Park, Lacon : )
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New festivals just in : Landed Festival, Rhayader and Folk on the Park, Lacon : )

by Jonathan on Apr 16, 2014 •
Home after sea ice and brilliant light – today Shropshire sun sucked the scent from magnolia, lavender and cherry blossom. Here, suddenly, it’s spring and I come laggardly to this shout of green. Later, lead tatters hugged the evening horizon while in high clear blue a sliver moon shaped a smile.  A...
Finland tour blog
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Finland tour blog

by Jonathan on Apr 13, 2014 •
Tour blog – music, photo, travelogue mashup goes to Finland  Departures – so nothing and nowhere – it’s a no place and no time. Such marvels, though, wait through the doors at the end of these silver tubes : ) Looking for Noggin. I’m flying, so half my face is...
Music - photo - travelogue mashup goes to Finland
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Music – photo – travelogue mashup goes to Finland

by Jonathan on Mar 22, 2014 •
Delighted to be taking a bunch of songs, pictures and travel stories to Finland, hosted by Aalto University. Weather forecast is icy, with a strong chance of Moomins x      
Gig with celtic trio Triskelion in Shrewsbury - music from the road less travelled
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Gig with celtic trio Triskelion in Shrewsbury – music from the road less travelled

by Jonathan on Mar 1, 2014 •
Wonderful gig playing with celtic trio Triskelion at the Anchor Inn, Shrewsbury on the banks of the Hafren. It’s an old river boatman’s pub – low ceilings held up by reclaimed ship’s timbers, terracota bricks warm in the firelight. A chance to play some music from the road less travelled,...
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Darwin Festival

by Jonathan on Feb 12, 2014 •
Delighted to be performing tomorrow at The Shrewsbury Coffeehouse as part of a packed bill for the Darwin Festival : ) Come down and squeeze in! x
Vagabond from the Blue Sky, Part 2. An interview with FolkRadio's Alex Gallacher
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Vagabond from the Blue Sky, Part 2. An interview with FolkRadio’s Alex Gallacher

by Jonathan on Dec 31, 2013 •
  Vagabond from the Blue Sky, part 2 An interview with FolkRadio’s Alex Gallacher Talking about his experiences of music and the road, Jonathan continued: Life, it often seems to me, is like a string of beads: moments strung like pearls on the fading continuum of my passing. Here are some...
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A wish for our tomorrows

by Jonathan on Dec 29, 2013 •
Walking over the narrow bridge on the Sheinbrook, I saw three Grey Wagtails fly together along the water. Even without belief I still love the ancient augurers’ ways – predicting the future by the omens of animals. Moments later a deep chocolate brown dipper followed, its white tail like a kite or a nervous ladies fan, pretty against the reflected sky. As it flew into low hanging leaves an azure Kingfisher flashed its brilliance and was gone. Something beautiful is coming and these quiet creatures are its subtle heralds and vanguards x  
Vagabond from the Blue Sky part 1. An interview with Folk Radio's Alex Gallacher
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Vagabond from the Blue Sky part 1. An interview with Folk Radio’s Alex Gallacher

by Jonathan on Dec 29, 2013 •
Folk Life: Jonathan Day – Vagabond from the Blue Sky   by ALEX GALLACHER, FolkRadio   I’ve been a fan of Jonathan Day’s music since he sent his album ‘Carved in Bone’. He’s a very keen traveller and always seems to be off on some journey, so much so that...
Fordhall festival - a farewell to summer
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Fordhall festival – a farewell to summer

by Jonathan on Dec 22, 2013 •
Across Shropshire in early light after a cold and wonderful night playing our last outdoor festival of summer. We saw our breath as we sang… so now autumn, a season like my soul. A mist skein scarfing the hills, translucent as a jelly fish. Sometimes heavy rain, speaking of winter,...
Farmer Phil's Festival '13 and Shrewsbury Flower Show
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Farmer Phil’s Festival ’13 and Shrewsbury Flower Show

by Jonathan on Dec 13, 2013 •
Looking out into the darkness from a high place, across a river – the hundred thousand lights are engulfed in rain. A warm rain like a cat that curls around every corner, a quiet voice from a more subtle world. The musical life has brought me here, far from my...
Hong Kong 2013 - Blog
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Hong Kong 2013 – Blog

by Jonathan on Jul 5, 2013 •
Well it’s that time again… said my sad goodbyes – half a world will pass beneath my feet before I stand back on the earth and pick up my guitar… : ) After this wild and windy year, epitomised most by the moorland and meteorological Edale festival a few short...
Breaking the waves - tour
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Breaking the waves – tour

by Jonathan on Jun 30, 2013 •
6.7 – Sun Festival (8:00) 19/21.7 – Festival at the Edge (10:45) 27.7 – Lea Cross Festival (8:15) 9.8 – Farmer Phil’s Fest (8:45) 17.8 – Jazz Happens, Bangkok (10:30) 21.8 – Cat Tower, Bangkok (tbc) 7.9 – Fordhall Festival (7:45) 21.9 – Bookworm Cafe, Hong Kong (7:30)
Thailand - Part two
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Thailand – Part two

by Jonathan on Apr 26, 2013 •
Wandering and playing in Amphawa today … once-was trading port for Siam, water worn timber houses, fragile in the sun, so close to the tidal river and canals they seem in danger at any moment of inundation. Temples necklace the viridian forest, realisation out of water and brilliant light, home...
Thailand - Part one
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Thailand – Part one

by Jonathan on Apr 26, 2013 •
A time of black and white in my Shropshire hills. The Shein brook which winds along to the Hafren/Severn covered itself in ice. Wandering its upper reaches, I found otter tracks. A really profound feeling, silently welcoming back this elusive creature of water and air. I followed its path over...
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BBC Radio 4 – Listening Project

by Jonathan on Mar 9, 2013 •
Jonathan and his daughter Niimi talking about the experience of touring.
BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project
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BBC Radio 4 – The Listening Project

by Jonathan on Mar 9, 2013 •
Jonathan wants to find out if his daughter Niimi is ready to go with him on his tour, to a country where the cultures and traditions are very different from home.
Agia Napa - Blog
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Agia Napa – Blog

by Jonathan on Dec 13, 2012 •
Arrival Not the most enjoyable of flights, but I am arrived intact by Budget air : ) Revisited Brussels airport, where as a 9 year old I arrived back from Africa… and breathed with the most profound and lasting joy the chill mist laden air. The Agia Napa accomodation is...
America Tour
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America Tour

by Jonathan on Nov 20, 2012 •
Rooftop Gig Tsim Sha Tsui
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Rooftop Gig Tsim Sha Tsui

by Jonathan on Nov 19, 2012 •
Rooftop gig in Hong Kong.
Review "Northern Sky"
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Review “Northern Sky”

by Jonathan on Nov 19, 2012 •
The Shropshire countryside is embedded in the very fabric of this first proper release by Jonathan Day, a writer, painter and poet whose curiosity has taken him around the world and back on a journey of self-discovery, from Johannesburg to the heart of the Black Country, his true inspirational home....
Review "Folk Radio UK"
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Review “Folk Radio UK”

by Jonathan on Nov 19, 2012 •
I like the quiet, the animals and the trees. It took me a long time to get here from where I grew up, in between factories, steel hard and iron grey. Long ago most of my family lived in these borderlands; I guess I’ve always been slowly heading home. There’s...
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Happy Christmas : ) x (click to see performance!)
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Happy Christmas : ) x (click to see performance!)

by Jonathan on Dec 22, 2014 •
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 (Fairytale of New York at Symphony Hall, Birmingham with Becky Ramsurn, Sarah Jeffrey – Samantha Norman,  Helen Lancaster, Robin Beatty of the Old...
Shenzhen
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Shenzhen

by Jonathan on Sep 21, 2014 •
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
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Mermaids and Volcanoes

by Jonathan on Sep 7, 2014 •
MERMAIDS AND VOLCANOES… Oia 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...
Making new album 'Atlantic Drifter'
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Making new album ‘Atlantic Drifter’

by Jonathan on Sep 5, 2014 •
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
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Prif Lwyfan Llanerch – Radnor Festival

by Jonathan on Aug 25, 2014 •
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
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Thai Tour – Wunderbar and Zoo

by Jonathan on Aug 24, 2014 •
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
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Thai Tour ’14 – Hatti’s story

by Jonathan on Aug 23, 2014 •
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
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Thai tour ’14 – the dim lit subterranea of the ancient mind

by Jonathan on Aug 22, 2014 •
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'
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Shrewsbury Poetry book launch for ‘Postcards’

by Jonathan on Aug 8, 2014 •
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
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Booklaunch/ Exhibition/ Gig for ‘Postcards from the Road’ at 86’d Gallery

by Jonathan on Jul 27, 2014 •
“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...

Carved In Bone

Atlantic Drifter Tour

JUNE
1/6 - Bookworm Café (Lamma)
3/6 - Peel Fresco (Hong Kong)
5/6 - Tui Keng Leng (Hong Kong)
13/6 - Folk on the Park (Wem)
16-21/6 - Much Wenlock Festival (Shropshire)


JULY
11-13/7 - Workhouse Festival (Llanfyllin)
19/7 - Festival at the Edge (Stokes’ Barn)
23/7 - 86’d (Ironbridge)


AUGUST
2/8 - Farm Fest (Bruton)
7/8 - Shrewsbury Poetry (Shrewsbury)
16/8 - Shrewsbury Flower Show (Shrewsbury)
18/8 - Wunderbar (Pattaya, Bangkok)
20/8 - Cat Tower (Si Phraya, Bangkok)
21/8 - Adhere the 13th Blues Bar

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