September 2011
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Bandcamp
Whilst I’m away from Berlin it is absolutley brilliant when anyone wants to buy some music from me when they do so here at Bandcamp. Sending cds of albums I can’t easily carry in my suitcase to 25 towns is tough and silly and by now most of my back catalogue is here, with plenty of free things there too. Normal postal service of physical goods will resume in due time - but for now...
September / October 2011 (2)
Yellow and blue nippy double decker train zipping across Holland for an hour from Zwolle to Utrecht in the Sunday sunshine. A morning of slow wandering by the canals and parks watching goats, ducks, dogs, herons, skate kids, tai-chi dancing ladies, wooden sword wielding mums and all Sunday afternoon leisure stuff every which way.
So I left Bremen on a packed train and went as far as Leer...
September / October 2011 (1)
Tapping away on a full, slow train west into Holland from Bremen, thinking about how I used to write more about travelling about and playing shows. In the last year or so I’ve found this difficult to do - there’s probably lots of reasons for this connected with the way these days more and more of us seem to communicate in bite sized updates and phrases, exclamations and short...
My next few weeks
Just had a last minute concert confirmed for next Tuesday - I’ll be playing at Bei Chéz Heinz in Hannover from 21.00.
This is the first of a run of shows that heads west into the Netherlands and down into Belgium, and then further down into Switzerland. The next few weeks for me look like this:
20/09/11 Béi Chéz Heinz, Hannover, Germany
21/09/11 Hasenschaukel, Hamburg, Germany -...
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Now Wash Your Hands
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My new album is finished and available to buy right now here. Other places later, and download version as soon as I can.
Here’s the first song from it, ‘Lover O Lover’:
This has been a long time to write, much fun to make and then suddenly was done. I hope it sits well with some people. Many thanks to Volker Hormann for the cello and for basically helping me...
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titting around: Wilkommen-on-Wilkommen. Here is a... →
woodpeckerwooliams:
Wilkommen-on-Wilkommen. Here is a delicious feast of mutual love-ins. Wilkommeners covering Wilkommeners; 18 tracks layering up like a big folky cream cake orgy. My small offering is a cover of the darling Alessi’s Ark’s ‘Hands in The Sink’- one of my favourite songs ever.
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‘Lover O Lover’ from the new album...
