Dec 27th will see the launch of a new Jug Band, featuring ourselves with the legendary Hokum Hotshots and (occasionally) Rob Mason.

Jug Band music is a wonderful thing and if you've never heard any I suggest you get up immediately and go and find some, go and get yourself a CD (or one of those new-fangled down loads) of the Memphis Jug Band, or Gus Cannons Jug Stompers and open your ears to a new sound!

Our Jug Band is in many ways a tribute to the wonderful and much missed Brian Cookman, who died three years ago. Brian was certainly a huge influence on me and was in fact the first gig I was ever taken to, at the age of 12. His mixture of great material, played beautifully and delivered with some of the best banter and jokes I have ever heard left and indelible mark upon me. Along side the Hokum Hotshots he's probably the biggest influence on me and my playing.

So, it's all his fault. The bastard.

Our next gig will be at Brooks Blues in London on Feb 22nd and will be a tribute gig for Brian with all money raised going to MacMillan Nurses.

Our Jug Band will feature the usual (!) array of guitars, washboards, Jugs, spoons, kazoos, mandolins and ukeleles and harmonicas and a very generous dollop of old fashioned silliness.

More news etc as and when.

As Brian once said; "That's plucking marvelous!"