Month: May 2013

  • I Know That It’s Only Border Morris (But I Like It)





    A fairly good indication of how I spend my weekends. (I’m the one in the band playing a squeezebox and dressed as a skeleton.) (Those folks behind us in white are Brighton Morris Men.) (They are improbably nimble.)



    If you prefer something a little more traditional, there’s this:


  • Sympathy For The Devil (live cover)





    (I notice this is post number 13. Nice.)

  • Chapter 60: The Ice Festival

    Chapter 60: The Ice Festival

    Dear Diary,


    Quick work, my friend!  I like your stylings.



    In that case, this is one of my favourite 3 minutes in all the world:



  • Chapter 59: Where would you like to go?

    Chapter 59: Where would you like to go?

    Dear Diary,

    I’ve lost the knack of this blogging nonsense, I’ll be honest with you.  I mean, it has been a while.

    It used to be my ‘I’ve got 20 minutes to spare what will I do now?’ of choice once upon a time — so much so that I never used to get any songs written!  But now… it’s just hard to get back into the emotion of it.

    By which I mean that I still have plenty of ideas, but none that actually excite me enough to make me want to read about them.

    I’m not fantastically bothered by it though.  I know that I always get this when I’m starting something I haven’t done in a while.  If I haven’t written any songs in ages then the first few are usually pretty awful, and never even get finished.  But before long I get back into it, until eventually I start seeing everything in terms of song ideas.

    So it will figure itself out in its own sweet time.

    But in the meantime, a question.  By way of a preamble.

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