Punk songs on folk instruments!Not just the hit of this festival, but probably every other festival this summer.
During yesterday’s shenanigans at Keswick Mountain Festival we found it necessary to don local traditional costume and adapt the stance of King Alfred – the natives were suitably cowed, fell before is in obeisance, and accepted us as Gods.
Troy and I went on the R&M show today. It was all very jolly indeed. We ended up talking about Mr Giblet (yes, Mr Giblet!), who was Troy’s music teacher at school. He used to hide Troy from the vicious games teacher by shoving him in a cupboard with a guitar and telling him to […]
With all modesty, it’s fair to say that our set at the Fairbridge Folk Festival in Western Australia went down really bloody well. It’s great when it all happens. You can feel a good one as soon as you step on the stage. It’s partly us, partly them – and if we’re excited, and they’re […]
It’s here! Look at it! Isn’t that just gorgeous? Troy is very, very jealous. It’s so saucy it’s like someone has poured a bottle of sauce into a full bottle of sauce and then had extra sauce with it. Look at the back!!!! : And just look how it’s loving those cushions! It has taste. […]
(The pic is of The Watering Hole in Perranporth in the snow) Whole bunch of new gigs just announced: Savoy Theatre, Monmouth The Watering Hole, Perranporth (It’s in a beach bar!) Haslemere Fringe Festival Larmer Tree Festival (One of our most favourite festivals) Robin 2 (Bilston, Wolverhampton)
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 […]
It’s April so it must be Australia… The band enjoyed it so much last year they’re coming back, but they wanted to see a bit more of Oz, so they asked their promoter to fix up some dates in towns with names like Katoomba, Cronulla and Ballarat… They’ll be in Oz for 3 weeks and they’re […]
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