Tab Martin with his upright bass guitar in the Peddlers. This is a brilliant performance. I love the bit from 01:10 where Trevor Morais plays a roll round the tomtoms with his left hand whilst stick twiddling with […]

There’s a very thorough article of the Fairport cruise here, detailing how they managed to play 4 nights without Simon Nicol.

I’ve watched a load of the Glastonbury iplayer sets. My favourite by far is Self-Esteem at the John Peel Stage. I’d never heard or seen her before and thought it was a fantastic performance. I loved everything […]

That cruise has now finished. My source tells me Simon played the first 2 nights and missed the remaining 4. She said the rest of Fairport did themselves proud in covering for him

He played at least 2 new songs. Sorry I can’t remember the titles. He said they would likely be on an RT Band album due to start recording soon. I purloined the setlist from his 2nd performance and one song is […]

My spies tell me he didn’t take part in last nights concert which was a Beatles Karaoke night with Fairport as the backing band.

We had a Sunday Morning excursion in Koln which was mostly shut and noticeably untidy compared to other places we’d visited. Our first view of the cathedral was from the river path and the view was marred by a […]

3 pics taken from my phone here. Click and scroll

RT Rhine Cruise June 2022

These are terrific articles. I read that in one go and loved all the detail.

They were quite groovy back in the day. My then girlfriend, now GLW for 45 years had a copy of Diamond Girl and we played it a lot. Interesting that they followed the Bahai faith and never lost it. And here’s a […]

Great stuff Jay. I saw Skid Row at Belfast Ulster Hall in around Nov / Dec 1969 when I was approaching my 16th birthday. From memory Gary was wearing an Afghan coat and playing a cherry red Les Paul. I remember he […]

Gigs; 4 this month, all good ones. Calan at Bury Met were very impressive, playing without their fiddler / singer on maternity leave, but if you didn’t know there were usually a five-piece you’d never have […]

Estonian folk rockers Trad Attack play at Costa Del Folk Ibiza in 2018. They were like Rush on steroids! To say they were divisive would be an understatement. I thought they were amazing, especially the looping […]

I have both of the albums released to date by False Lights. i like them a lot

I only started my Wordle trip yesterday, got a 4 and was quite pleased with myself. Unfortunately I hadn’t realised that the same letter can appear twice. So after 4 tries today I was faced with a word that only […]

Procul Harum website has announced the passing of Gary Brooker on 19th Feb, aged 76. He had been undergoing medical treatment for a while. He was a founder member of Procul Harum in 1966, and was the front man of […]

I had tickets to see them last Sunday at Bury Met. It got postponed a couple of weeks ago and rescheduled for Sunday 17th July

As far as I know Bamber inherited from a distant relative the house used for the filming of Ghosts