It was a huge pleasure to see Dea Matrona in concert in Liverpool last night. I saw them last year in Leeds and what a difference a year makes. From the very first note it was clear they have come on in leaps and bounds. They were good last year, in fact very good. Last […]

I had the absolute pleasure of seeing Hejira in Helmsley on Saturday. It was a stunningly good show by a hugely talented band. Hejira take their name from the 1976 album by Joni Mitchell. The album marked a seismic shift in Joni Mitchell’s music and is rightly regarded as a classic. Hejira (the band) play […]

Ask virtually any musician about how much they earn from their music and they’ll tell you the same thing – nothing. To earn minimum wage from Spotify streams you have to get something like 567,000 per month. Minimum wage !!!! That doesn’t take into account the cost of recording or even the guitar strings. Meanwhile, […]

I had the huge pleasure of seeing The Beatles tribute band Across The Universe 66-70 in Liverpool last night. I’m not normally a fan of tribute bands, the idea of grown-ups dressing up to try and look like someone else, mimicking their supposed mannerisms and asking an audience to suspend belief for an hour or […]

For just £10 you could be the proud owner of my CD Collateral. Yes, that’s all it costs – and that includes post and packaging !!!! So what are you waiting for? Just click here, fill in a few details and I’ll get your copy in the post. If only the rest of your life […]

The song I’m talking about is my song Just To Be With You. You can’t listen to it on Spotify. There was a time when you could listen to it on Spotify and lots of people did and then Spotify decided to take it down. The excuse I was given by Spotify was vague, unsubstantiated […]

My latest single Please Turn Over is out now and streaming worldwide on all your favourite streaming apps. Help me earn a tiny fraction of a cent and stream it. Get all the info about the song by clicking here Listen on Spotify: Listen to Please Turn Over on this website: Watch the lyric video:

If you haven’t heard Cheri’s amazing songs you’re in for a real treat. Go get yourself a nice cup of coffee or tea and settle down somewhere comfortable because you’re going to want to take a lot of time enjoying this to the maximum. Cheri is, in my opinion, a seriously talented songwriter and performer […]

I didn’t start writing songs to become rich and famous. Well, not really. When I was 16 or 17 or even 18 I might have harboured some vague notion that I would be plucked from obscurity and catapulted to international stardom, but let’s get real, that was never going to happen. Certainly by the time […]