Thanks to everybody who turned out for Shakespeare and the Bible at Budvar. And thanks to Owen, Chris, Oliver, Christina and Adrian for playing. Not to mention Curtis and those cheeky High Quality Girls. Lovely stuff!

Now then...

I'm doing this acoustic show in a town I've never played before. It's on a summer Sunday in the lovely Northamptonshire town of Brackley, which boasts a bookshop precisely 6,421 times larger than my own. God knows how you get there. God knows, frankly, how I'm going to get there, but - if we do - I can imagine that it will be lovely in many ways.

I'm supposed to play at about eight o'clock in the evening, but there is much to be enjoyed both before and after. Let me hand over to Darren Mitchell and his Occasional Orchestra, who are the organisers of this shindig:

"It's 2 years since Darren Mitchell decided to arm himself with an acoustic guitar, dust off his songbook and stand before the world once again.

That gig was at The Greyhound in Brackley and to mark the occasion we thought we'd go back to the scene of the crime and invite a few friends along to help celebrate.

So on Sunday August 23rd at The Greyhound from 4 o'clock onwards you can groove to the sounds of Acoustic Journey, our old pal Broon, Nick Lines (although he's a bit poorly at the moment and might have to duck out), the very wonderful A Band of Hope, the equally wonderful Carlecko, the totally splendid Hana Bushnell, somewhat incredibly Pat Fish (aka The Jazz Butcher); of course we'd have to have Lew Bear (straight from work) and then it'll be our turn."

Join me Up Country, why don't you?