Had a really good week in June at Halsway Manor in the company of Boo Hewerdine and Darden Smith for a bunch of songwriting fun. Met up with a few other old friends and met some new ones in what became an inspiring and productive week. At the end of the week we each recorded […]
Early in September 2015 my good friend John Taylor suddenly died. I’d first met John when playing cricket against him, probably in the 80s or maybe early 90s. We quickly established we both had a passion for folk music and so met often at clubs and sessions. He was a terrific singer of sea shanties […]
Frank Sullivan was the father of my friend of nearly 50 years, John Sullivan and someone I knew and liked from my teens. So when John asked a few of us to get together a scratch band for his 65th birthday party, I was very happy to oblige. Now I have to admit that not […]
Today is the 18th November and is the birthday of my good friend Pete Bath. It’s not so much that Pete’s birthday means so very much to me, though I wish him the very best, but what tended to happen in my life on his birthday. I met Pete in September 1970 when he left […]