Other stuff

The Bad Shepherds take-over Team Rock Radio this Sunday from 12:00 – 2:00pm. We will be playing things we like! Listeners can tune in on DAB (National in the UK), online at www.teamrockradio.com and on mobile via tunein/radioplayer apps.

Recorded a Jools band version of the Bad Shepherds arrangement of Sound of the Suburbs today for Jools’ radio programme. Also chose a few records – 5.15 by The Who, Milkman of Human Kindness  by Billy Bragg, and Song of the Weather by Flanders & Swann. The conversation ranged from how to blow up a model train set to Percy Grainger’s twin […]

I’m having a new twin neck mandolin/octave mandolin made by Roger Bucknall at Fylde Guitars in Penrith. The picture is of a mock up to judge size etc., the real one will have strings and things, and won’t have as much felt tip pen on it… I stayed with Roger overnight and sampled his extraordinarily […]

The newest line up of the band… (yes, I know we’ve been through a few) …is definitely the best. We are back to a three piece: Troy, Ade and Tim Harries on double bass. It’s the best we’ve ever sounded. Tim played bass on the second and third albums and was briefly in the band […]

We’ve been locked away in Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire recording a new album – ‘Mud, Blood & Beer’. Some snaps of the recording sessions: