Pavane for a dead infanta, played by one of the best interpreters of Ravel.

It will come as no surprise that I am at a Burns Night on the nearest Saturday, every year, in a late medieval town house in the middle of Chester. I don’t think a soul there has any Scottish connection, but it’s […]

We had him booked for the folk club last year, but had to postpone for the obvious. Looking forward to the time.

Here’s someone who came a few years ago. Such voices!

I just plucked a random CD out yesterday and it was TB3. Utterly pointless. But he only sold to civilians if he put the TB brand on it.

My fanclub network spreads wide!

Don’t you love the way the French pronounce Chester, or anything, for that matter? Bet she’d struggle with Frodsham, mind.

Death Cab for Cutie

Now look here, I sing folk ballads. I could be here all day.
So here’s some country and western instead.

Body count = 12

and here’s some big baldie bloke who has finally ended up on the internet

Yes, I recall the odious Rod Liddle arguing against the third runway at Heathrow as I means of controlling the ingress of infectious foreigners. Every now and then, their basic instincts align with what is […]

What an extraordinarily handsome bloke that is leading the an dro.

This has brightened many many months.

I referred to this on another thread as my first foray into learning a song in breton. To sing the song has been a joy, but the next step, literally, is to get the dance […]

Tough on the causes of Crime of the Century.

I’m going with the ‘surely not’. I’ve had accusations of racism and sexism thrown at me and I’m not having it; I recognise them for what they are, having been lifted straight from the Spiked Online playbook. […]

This just in.

though an insider tells me that the decision was also coloured by the fact that the G7 are meeting in Carbis Bay and all the accommodation in Falmouth has been hoovered up by the press corps who […]

Kamala Police, arrest this man.

Talking of full time shanty singing, my paper this morning tells me that Nathan Evans has quit being a postie, to capitalise on his TikTok fame. I fear he may be overestimating the lifetime earnings potential of […]

I’ve been in Melbourne in January. Oh God yes, it’s a thing.

The i is keeping me informed on the cronyism too, but why would the Mail, Express etc hold them to account? That’s not what PR companies are for.

But worse, they decide they have to persuade a whole load more people to join them for the ride. And post fake news about empty hospitals. It’s so hard not to wish that they catch the virus.

This is a common theme, not just of shanties. The simplified story goes that the upper middle class Edwardian collectors went round the countryside recording the working class natives, (then publishing the […]