Some of you have asked about the vinyl track listing so I thought I’d explain. For those of you who remember the glory days of vinyl it will bring back memories! First of all the album’s a wee bit quiet because of the information that had to be cut into the vinyl. All the sides are over 20 minutes long … Read More

The time shifts were hard to get my head around and not helped by a wristwatch that seemed itself to fall asleep and lose hours. Back in the hotel room I went on the internet to get my e mails ( which I couldn’t answer) and Skyped my girlfriend Simone in Germany where it was 10pm. It was 1pm in … Read More

  It was always going to be a tough call! We were bungee jumping into Mexico for 4 days to play one show at the prestigious Baja Rock festival. The promoters had been trying to get us for years and for one reason or another it didn’t fit in with our schedules. We’d finally signed off to play last November … Read More

To be honest it’s been a very mixed bag of fortunes and events in the last week or so. I returned from the HRH gig in Wales a bit numb and out of synch with everything here at the studio and struggling the last 2 days to get back in the groove with Mexico looming on the near horizon! Yatta … Read More

  Wednesday had all the makings of a bad day. The postman arrived with a tinkling package and an embarrassed look on his face. Either someone had sent me a crystal collection or judging by the shape of the item, a badly packed photo frame. It turned out on opening to be the latter. He suggested I claim for compensation … Read More

Fantastic Saturday night in Rotherham at the Classic Rock Society awards where I’d been asked to present the honours. The long drive down was well worth it and I was kept entertained by BBC Scotland sports on a fading and blurry AM radio signal that reminded me of my teenage years in the attic in Dalkeith trying to get a … Read More

This is a 2 part blog I wrote for the Company website back in 2011 after my first visit to the Somme. I thought it was worth posting over here as it’s interesting to read this now as it pre dates writing the High Wood.     The pale limestone of the Garde du Nord railway station glowed in the … Read More

Well glad we got through that white water ride! Fantastic Christmas day with Tara, my parents and Simone although I drove Taz up to her mother’s in Edinburgh before the meal as she’d elected for German goose this year while I stuck with the traditional turkey which was delivered in style! It was great to have her here with her … Read More

3 litres of ginger beer and 2 Nytols after an early night done for my morning. Woken by call from my film agent asking for my response to a script he’d sent up for a movie shooting in March that I’d read yesterday evening over 3 sittings. It didn’t grab me and the fact it took 3 sittings was not … Read More