The New Year started as the last decade ended with a flurry of studio activity. John Mitchell was up at the start of the week finishing the guitar parts and contributing to the final song to be written the album. I’d been struggling with the original concept/ story behind ‘Market garden’ as it crossed too much with images I’d used … Read More

And so it begins. First day of ‘Weltschmerz’ recording and Craig Blundell joins us in the Studio to work on the drum tracks. Hugely productive day with Calum Malcolm and Steve at the ‘coalface’. We’d met up with Craig when he was playing with Steve Hackett in Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago, sent him the tracks and he arrived … Read More

There’s an impressive line up for the Guildford Show on December 7th. Ticket details are on the SAS website and at Guildford G Live.

I’ll be back with the SAS band for a special night on the ’25 Riff tour’ at the G Live in Guildford on Saturday December 7th. I’ll be joining Madelleine Bell, Chris Thompson, Tom Robinson and a lot of other special guests and old friends on what is the 25th anniversary of the band and last night of the tour. … Read More

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