I’m very pleased to say that I’ll be back on German soil soon playing some of my favourite places and some new ones as well as two festivals, Slowing Down Time in Bielefeld and The Sound Of Bronkow in Dresden. There are still a couple of free dates, so if you fancy a house concert,…
The Drawing Process Songwriting Workshop
At the end of November I was invited to take run another songwriting workshop, this time not using photographs as inspiration but drawings. Myself and the four brave 18-30 year olds who had signed up, Chloe, Hannah, Joe and Greg began by walking round the Drawing Process exhibition which was made up of works by…
Germany, Austria, Switzerland tour November 2015
I am very thrilled that myself, JC Grimshaw and Jon Throne will be taking to the autobahn this November and bringinging our audio/visual extravaganza to the good people of Germany, Austria and Switzerland! We have one free date on the 11th November so if anyone fancies hosting a show/houseconcert do get in touch. 10th Nov:…
UK Tour
Ever since the release of my debut album Songs Without Words twelve years ago, my solo career has been mostly focused in continental Europe, UK shows have been very thing on the ground. Apart from the occasional show on the Isle of Wight and the even rare appearance in London I’ve done very little in…
Found Exhibitions
To coincide with the release of the Found album and subsequent tour there will be two exhibitions of some of the photos from Elinor’s stunning collection. The first isat the Spring Arts Centre in Havant and will run for the whole of October. The second is at Dimbola Lodge, the former Freshwater home of pioneering…
Breathe Fire
As some of you might remember, a few years ago I shaved off my hair and beard to raise money for the Bhopal Medical Appeal. It went extremely well, we had a fantastic evening and raised over £5,000. I carry the ‘Bhopal Beardpal’ moniker with pride! The Bhopal Medical Appeal do a fantastic job in…
Joanna On The Water
Earlier this month I was invited by the wonderful people at Ventnor Exchange to come and run a songwriting workshop for 11-15 year olds on a Sunday afternoon. I’ve done quite a few workshops like this recently, they tie in very nicely with the process of writing songs for the ‘Found’ project. The found photographs…
Paul Armfield’s Friends Society
Greetings! Orphaned by my record company as it drew it’s last breath earlier this year, and twice snubbed by the Arts Council as not worthy of their funding, I find myself abandoned, left to fend alone, a bearded singer/songwriter adrift in a world already drowning in bearded singer/songwriters. Sniff. But this is no sob story,…
My New Hepworth Guitar
I am a one guitar man! Apart from a brief dalliance with a lovely nylon strung Raimundo 112, the only six string for me is my beloved Washburn EA36, we’ve been together for the best part of 20 years when it replaced the Ovation copy that my parents had given me for my 16th birthday….
On songwriting
I have set aside January and February to write songs for the ‘Found’ project so I’m very much focused on my art. So maybe I was more in tune with a blog post by my friend Jon Griffin than I would normally have been, but it’s the best meditation on the dark art of songwriting…
