Play or Audio Download I’m adding a download link to all the little songs I put up here.This has had the volume increased so its a bit rumbly.
I wrote this on saturday intending to play it at the benefit for Action Aid I was doing that night as it’s kind of about us all [...]
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I was born in Birkenhead, St. Caths hospital, but haven’t lived there for a long time and I’m always a bit freaked out when I go back. My first job was hitting bits of metal at Cammel Lairds. I was great at that as you can imagine…
The area round Hamilton Square hasn’t changed much since [...]
A 2 week sojourn in the Isle of Skye recently, playing at the intriguingly named Saucy Mary’s.
The journey by train took about 14 hours from my door to Mary’s and was hard grind with suitcase, guitar, bag and laptop, particularly as you can’t put them down anywhere, even in the station shops or nip to [...]
Monday 31st October
A short set at my local bar Stamps in Crosby supporting top Irish songwriter Andy White.
I’m feeling a touch off colour due to being unable to move my head to the right. It’s been coming on for a few days and feels like a bug rather than a weird sleeping position. However like [...]
The thing us lonesome troubadours do. Saturday 15th out with friends. Thai meal, drinks and then some more drinks. Sunday 16th October my birthday. Up at 7.45am to catch a train to Nottingham at half nine! Am I insane? That’s a rhetorical whatsit by the way ‘coz, obviously I’m not. I’m merely dedicated to my [...]
Last Thursday I was back in North Wales, this time at the North Wales Inn, Rhyl. Top jockey Vidar got us there in just over an hour.
Small boozer, the tiniest stage in the whole world EVER and a worry that perhaps we shouldn’t have come. 10 minutes later I’d signed 2 autographs before we’d even [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Steve Roberts, Dan Dean & Robbie Taylor in Germany 2004
Germany January 2004 Tour Diary The arrangements started like this: ‘my little finger is about 50km long as far as this map is concerned so that means its about 250 km, about 120miles? Easy’. Then we forgot the map and drove almost to Poland in winter [...]
