Lamontations
I see word’s getting round about the Listening Room’s 10th Anniversary Mega-No-Mic. To celebrate 10 years of intimate strumplucking at the Blue Blazer on Sunday nights, founder Peter Michael …
Read More >Friday, January 20th, 2012 Tags: blue blazer, edinburgh, listening room, open mic Category: Music, My music No Comments 
Clearing out some old files from an old version of my site, I found my one and only (very tame) excursion into erotica. I wrote it on, or shortly after, a holiday on the Greek island of Zakynthos. Very odd discovering it, exactly the same reaction …
Read More >Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 Category: Journal No Comments
This is the first in a series I’ve decided to write about individual songs that have affected me for life in some way or another. If I can figure out how, I’d then like to make it a social site of some kind where others …
Read More >Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 Tags: 1950s, autobiography, elizabethan serenade, song Category: Articles, Every Song Has a Memory No Comments
My apologies if you live in the Edinburgh area and you get a number of phone calls suggesting that you immediately act on the excellent quote you’ve just had online at comparetheconfusedmoneymeerkat.com. What with car renewal and my son getting a flat, I’ve …
Read More >One of the tracks I’m working on for the new album All the Time in Heaven is a ballad called Mathilde. This is a co-write with Sebastien Ayreault, a French novelist and songwriter living in Atlanta, Georgia. (More about Sebastien)
I sent him a …
Read More >Monday, January 9th, 2012 Category: My music No Comments