UPDATE MONDAY 21st APRIL : The 5 winners are: Onevai Pita, Mara Robinson, Sarah Muston, Sam Farren and Lois Prior. I shall now go away and write your songs and perform them this Saturday evening at the Quay. Ever wanted to be the subject of a song? Here’s your chance. On Saturday 26th April I…
Give me a kiss!!!
A song of hope for those without a valentine, You Will Be Loved Again is proving to be one of the most popular tracks from Up Here. To celebrate this I’ll be releasing a video to accompany the song on February 14th. If you’d like to be in the video all you need to do…
A Happy new Year to you.
A very happy New Year to friends old and new. And what a start!!!!! Up Hear has been released in the UK and already there have been great reviews in Mojo, Uncut and the Mirror. Folk Radio have made it album of the month and written possibly the best review I could ever hope to…
‘Up Here’ UK release details
I’m very chuffed to announce that Up Here is all set to get a UK release through PIAS distribution in early January 2014. To support this we’ll be doing a couple of live dates in December, the first on the 13th at Ventnor Arts Club and the second on Monday 16th at the Slaughtered Lamb…
October Tour Dates
I’m very pleased to be able to share details of the forthcoming tour to promote the launch of ‘Up Here’ in October. There are several other dates to be confirmed and we haven’t even begun to look at UK dates yet. All gigs listed here will be with the new band consisting of myself, Dave…
New Album Finished
Very pleased to say that after a magical week in Studio Humbug (an old water tower on Queen Victoria’s Osborne estate), the new album is pretty much all recorded. We made good time and recorded much more than an album’s worth of material completely from scratch, and we all had much more fun than men…
April Tour Dates
Using up all the very last scraps of my annual leave, I’ll be once again zig-zagging around Germany and Austria on the wonderful Deutsche Bahn to play my songs to those who’ll listen. The first seven dates will be solo and then in Stuttgart I’ll be joined by my old friend JC Grimshaw and label…
A Hairfree New Year
In case there is anyone left who doesn’t know, I will be giving up my beard and hair in aid of the Bhopal Medical Appeal on the 2nd of January at the Bargeman’s Rest. There will be music from, amongst others, The Radiotones, Stickman, Rachel’s Reason, JC and Angelina. And for those who fancy making…
Radio Feature
If you haven’t already come across this great online radio station I’m sure you’ll soon be a convert. A fine selection of music, full on unexpected treasures. One of the DJs Adrian, recently interviewed me for a show which has just been posted. Please go and give it a listen, I’m sure you’ll enjoy the…
Evermine back on sale
For one reason or another 2005’s Evermine never got a UK release so I’m very pleased to be able to now offer it for sale on CD AND Vinyl from the website shop. Whereas Songs Without Words was a collection of old songs recorded by the newly put together Four Good Reasons, Evermine was written…