I’d never been to Tottington ’til last night.
Tottington is just outside Bury and we were on the way to play Hark to Towler a pub up there. We got lost (of course) but Vidar -our jockey, the art of Zen Navigation (c 2005) and a bloke in a kebab shop got us there safe and [...]
Archive for September, 2005
Holed up with a cold and no money I had the perfect excuse for staying in. No Direction Home, the long awaited, by me anyway, Dylan documentary is on telly. Hurrah for the BBC and my license fee.
The Scorcese film lived up to expectations. Fantastic live footage of Dylan with The Band in ‘66 (minus [...]
Last night me and Chris played Archies in Prestatyn, North Wales.
As a child, I was forever on holiday somewhere near Prestatyn, or so it seemed. The journey would take 3 hours yet it was less than 50 miles away. The roads or rather road, was always full of other summer holidayers, cars breaking down, horrible [...]
Last week (tuesday) I played at The Pilgrim a cool old pub in Liverpool. I was supporting Micheal Weston King a fine americana/country style singer-songwriter originally from these parts but since become a travellin’ man.
Robbie Taylor played his fiddle and mandolin with me and it was great to perform for a listening audience. Thanks all [...]
