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Anyone looking at the website recently will have noticed a dwindling of gigs and some cancellations, which have included Cheltenham, Cockermouth, and the gigs coming up in Amsterdam on June 19/20th.
For the past few months I’ve been suffering a few frustrating health problems caused in part by the folk and roll lifestyle I’ve enjoyed (really?) over the years, and as a result I’ve not been actively seeking gigs and have had to cancel some existing ones at short notice.
So, this is to say sorry if any inconvenience has been caused and to tell you that I have been mostly: Lying about on my back and eating metaphorical grapes; Taking lots of (unfortunately non-leisure) drugs; Whingeing about being ill to anyone who’ll listen; Working on new and old songs. I recently received a call from an agent in Oxford – she said she wanted a “big favour” - she had seen a singer-songwriter called Nikki Loy busking in the town centre; Nikki was due to play the Jericho Tavern five days later, but needed a good accompanist in order to concentrate on her singing. On the Sunday she arrived at my house and we rehearsed for a bit. A few days later we did our first gig together in front of a good standing crowd. I kept my head down, mostly concentrating on the chord charts and notes I’d made, and we got through 40 minutes of songs which I’d heard for the first time a few days previously. It was good fun for me, because it was a different and challenging way of working. After the gig, which was a support slot for “Teitur”, I met Giles Lewin and Rob Ryan as they joined an Egyptian Oud and Flute duo to finish a session at the Lamb and Flag (on Oxford’s St Giles), and finished my night with tunes and beer (but not a fight, despite Rob’s best efforts to silence a noisy punter by skimming beer mats at him) at the Half Moon on St Clement’s, driving home wondering all the while why I didn’t still live in Oxford (answers on a blogcard please)
Anyway, Nikki Loy will be doing a guest slot with me at the Merchant Inn in Rugby on Tuesday, and I’ll be backing her when she appears at Togfest (acoustic stage, time tbc) on June 27th.
Other news is that the King’s Head in Buckingham has asked me to host the weekly open mic that I ran for the two years up to last September. It will be starting up again on Sunday 14th, which, spookily enough, will make it three years to the day that it first began, and on the same day as Stony Stratford’s Folk on the Green.
Hope to see you soon.
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Fyace
By Karen Tweed & Ian Carr
Release date: 1997-08-01 |
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