Happy New Year!

Did you have a lovely, restful holiday? I hope you did, I did

It's not quite over yet either, so don't be too worried about Monday.

I'm starting the year of with some very exciting gigs.

Friday January 8th I shall be performing at The Shed, Leicester as part of Walrus Gumboot which is a themed night which raises money for charity. The theme this month is the Rollin Stones, and each artists has to perform at least one Stones Tune....

On Tuesday January 26th I'll be making my debut at The Jam House, the Birmingham music bar and restaurant owned by Jools Holland. It's a free gig, and it'd be tremendous to see you all there.

Then on February 5th I'm running a second night at The Tower of Song, again free (details to follow soon)

Tonight's gig at The Secret Christmas Party, and all upcoming Secret Music Club gigs have been cancelled by the venue/promoter, sorry to everyone who was planning to attend this evening.

Not sure what is happening with the future of the night, which is an open mic in Birmingham...

A video of the Public

Santa has come a little early, and delivered a little toy to me...

It's a nice little digital video camera, and from now on this blog should be adorned with ever more videos and pictures. There's been a fair few already, but I've been having to borrow gear each time I wanted to capture and upload things.

Anyhow, here is a little video I've just cobbled together with some clips from my gig last Friday at The Public, West Bromwich. Sound is OK, not great (mono I'm afraid) but I'm pretty happy with the pictures as it was all rather unplanned and off the cuff. If you find the sound going strange at all, it's your computer. (Not really! Still getting my bearings with the editing software)

I'll do a proper blog about the gig soon, because there were some fabulous people playing that night, such as SAM and Soul Attic, but special mention must got to Gaz (still don't know his second name!) who just happened to be passing the venue as I arrived, and agreed to come in and jam on a bluesy cover. You could say it was lucky he had his harmonicas with him, but he's such a legend I think they are a permanent fixture!

Gig tomorrow in Digbeth

This Monday (December 21st) I'm performing at The Adam and Eve, Digbeth in Birmingham

The gig is a free acoustic music night called Broken Amp and Eli Rae, Richard Chappell and Steve J Lowry will also be appearing.

The gig starts around 8pm

Let me know if you need more info...

BBC WM

Last night my track Well Adjusted was played on BBC West Midlands' Introducing Show. If you missed it you can hear it on the BBC iplayer

The track gets played 1hour 32 minutes into the show


The introducing show is on every Thursday 10pm-12pm on BBC WM 95.6fm

Upcoming Gigs (for anyone who has trouble reading the list on the left. Like me)

Return to The Tower of Song

I'll be hosting another night at my favourite venue, the Tower of Song, on February the 5th. More details to follow, but the night will feature new songs from me and some very talented guests.