Mary Gauthier/Jaimee Harris/Michele Gazich – Edinburgh Pleasance Theatre 9th November 2019 I must start by saying I love Mary Gauthier. Her songs have the lyrics front and centre like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. There is more pathos in a Mary Gauthier lyric than any other artist I can think of. Listen to Last of …
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Bad tee shirts and beer bellies!
Wishbone Ash – The Met, Bury 1st November 2019 Friday saw us make a trip to Bury, one of our favourite places in England. This small town (population 78000) is part of Greater Manchester and therefore considered insignificant when compared to its (in)famous neighbour. Bury is proud of it’s ‘famous’ market : Market of the …
Goin’ back to New Orleans
We returned to New Orleans in October 2018 after a gap of nearly 30 years! I have always known I had unfinished business with NOLA. My brother lived there in the late nineties/early noughties but we never got chance to visit him there. Our daughter was born in 2000 so the timing wasn’t right, the …
What a waste
Liverpool 13th October 2019 Double Fantasy – John and Yoko Museum of Liverpool This is a free exhibition, celebrating the meeting of two of the world’s most creative artists who expressed their deep and powerful love for one another through their art, music and film. They used their fame and influence to campaign for peace …
Hello world!
Welcome to Postcards from the man cave. About ten years ago I converted a small bedroom in our house into my personal space or ‘man cave’. It has a HiFi system, about 450 vinyl records, 1100 CD’s, a desktop computer (with 2000 digital albums), four guitars and a Banjo. The walls are covered with posters, …