The board in the Studio control room is starting to fill up and I’m pleased that the ticks indicating ‘completed’ new songs are following the titles. Robin Boult was up for a few days last week adding his thoughts and content to the material that Steve Vantsis and I have been working on and developing and we now have 3 … Read More

Last night I was at Pat Stanton’s 75th Birthday celebration at the Usher Hall with Simone. It was a night where I reverted to being an overawed kid coming face to face with so many heroes and I had to retrain myself from the overwhelming urge to whip out my i phone and irreverently snap away at so many of … Read More

Well a lot of hard thinking after long talks with various advisers has led me to making an executive decision to move the European tour from April/May to the end of the year when I’ll be going out now in October/ November. By that time hopefully we will all know more about the effects of Brexit and things will hopefully … Read More

Back from Bonn and into the Studio writing sessions with Steve V for another creative head to head. Not a bad start as we built the skeleton of another new tune ‘The Grace of God’ which was born from an idea originally named ‘Scanner Song’. I was glad to get things off and running again as it had been a … Read More

Well it’s been an eventful and interesting time since the New Day festival and the peace and quiet I needed to have a listen to the muse was drowned out by other demands and a couple of left field punches. More of that another time. I’m focused on this weekend and looking forward to another day out with the circus … Read More

And so it begins. With my Mum now living here at the studio we are woefully short of accomodation and so had to look at alternate living space. Steve Vantsis volunteered to live under canvas in the garden and we pulled out my old Vango pup tent from West Highland Walk days last time he was here. It was fine … Read More

Roll Up Roll Up!! The circus is heading back out on the road again from next March starting off with a clutch of UK dates before heading out to Europe in April for a 6 week tour. I deliberately chose smaller more relatively intimate venues for the opening round of shows so I can play about with set lists and … Read More

In all the maelstrom that’s been 2019 so far I forgot to post a photo of the award I got for ‘Man with a Stick’ as best UK single on Planet Rock. Thought this was a good opportunity to post as I’ve returned to the digital air waves with the guys for the next 3 weeks as I’m taking over … Read More

The other day I was in the front room of the studio and a small shape hurtled past my shoulder and crashed into the french doors.It turned out to be a young finch that had flown through the open kitchen door and in a panic flew to the closest exit which turned out to be blocked by a pane of … Read More