This Friday (9th Nov) I’m doing a solo originals set at my local, The Black Bull in Blaydon, alongside Ross Alexander Holly and Pom Tar. Then on Saturday 10th Nov I’m at the fantastic Lounge at Petros in Winlaton Mill – see poster – for a full and varied night of music – Tom Petty to Steve Earle via Bowie, Elbow, Johnny Cash, Alabama 3, Alabama Sheiks and even a bit of Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd, Wreckless Eric and The Velvet Underground… plus the usual foot stomping four string trance wonder as well 😉 Hope to see you at both/either!!!!!! The Lounge is big mind (great beer/gin/wine/vibe) so I need a good bunch of you in there…

I’m off to the London International Guitar Show at Kempton Park Racecourse this Sunday 28th October.  I’ll be on the Custom CoolEtch stall, with some of my Bridge Street Guitars and lots of CCE etched metal parts for guitars.  See you there?  Up for a chat.   🙂

This is the Bridge Street In The Rain bar 🙂

Back from the states – SF, Sausalito, Tahoe, Sacramento, Sutter Creek and Santa Cruz – and doing mostly Solo and Ma Kelly’s Boys until Christmas, when I’ll have a think about what to do next.  Always dangerous 😉

I’m feeling like it’s time to get a bit more Outlaw Country feel going on.  Bunch of songs coming together to record in 2019 and maybe put a new band together doing hard edged country and my solo material – working title, still Bates Motel.  Maybe I’ll just go for a three piece with foot percussion….  Thinking on.  Inspired by Steve Earle’s latest album.

Anyway, looking forward to seeing some of you on the road.

The Ma Kelly’s Boys‘ road trip hits The Rochdale Empire this Saturday 11th August.

We’re not exactly lookalikes (as you’ll see from the pics) but we definitely nail the vintage frantic four sound of the early 70s, covering songs from between 1970 and 1976 and taking our name from the classic Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon album from 1970.

Doors open early, but the band won’t hit the stage until 10pm and will deliver two sets of classic quo from In My Chair to Mystery Song, with songs like Down Down, Big Fat Mama, Oh Baby, Paper Plane and Roll Over Lay Down in between.

So, if you’re in the area get down for a bit of old style boogie.

We’ll be back up the road to Newcastle to appear at Trillions on Friday 24th August – classic band, classic rock bar.

Playing live at FretMarks guiatr/Music shop in Bedlington

https://youtu.be/7C4umxSsVSY

I’ll be at The Americana Festival at Sage Gateshead this weekend coming up, after a quick catch up with Del Amitri on the Friday night in Newcastle 😉 .  Then it’s back out solo – Friday 27th at the perfectly formed Mr Ants bar.