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Category Archives: Personal

60th Birthday Gig

May 9, 2010 – 1:31 pm

Friends, musicians and listeners – I’m celebrating my 60th birthday in three weeks’ time on June 1st with a self-financed gig at Shepherds Bush Empire in London – and you can help us spread the word about this great night out: My band includes punk legend TV SMITH on guitar and award-winning composer and producer [...]

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Festival at Riverside Oct 20 – Nov 1

September 19, 2009 – 12:13 pm

To celebrate the 2nd anniversary of BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net we present a fortnight of outstanding new songwriters, indie bands and electronic artists at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, West London from Tuesday 20th October to Sunday November 1st. All artists have equal billing and all tickets are £6 – click here to book. [...]

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The Little Pink

July 6, 2009 – 8:41 am

Interesting interview with The Big Pink by Alexis Petrides in The Guardian last Friday in which they complained about people assuming that they’re gay. Hmmm.  Let’s try substituting “Jewish”  for “gay” in that same article and apply it to another (imaginary) Shoreditch band – who’ve been experiencing similar problems. Yes, nods The Big Yid’s Roddy [...]

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Depression & Mental Illness

June 24, 2009 – 4:23 pm

Photo and text from Mind Out for Mental Health‘s 1 in 4 project, 2002. One way of looking at mental health problems is as a gap between the way we view the world internally and the way we experience it externally. If there’s too big a gap we get into trouble. I went to a [...]

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