Back Again

Seems like everything is up and running again, thanks for your patience. Technology is wonderful till it doesn’t work and then it takes up ridiculous amounts of our time while we try and sort it out. Life is simpler with and without it. Enjoyed the show in Bedford last week. Whilst I always like to think that each gig is different, one can fall into a pattern on a tour, and one off’s are usually a little more adventurous. So I played a song or two I had never sung and quite a few I hadn’t performed in a while.Looking forward to Oxford on Wednesday where I haven’t played, as far as I know, since around 96 when I opened for Mike and The Mechanics at the Apollo. I’m also doing a lunchtime event (1.00pm) for Christian Aid at the Quakers Meeting house in Pusey Lane that day if any one is interested. I’m just going to talk and be questioned about the Brazilian trip and any thing else folk want to ask. The miner’s event on Friday was a proud moment. I have sung Please Sir hundreds of times but didn’t feel I got it right on the night but it still seemed to connect with the men and women there which means a lot. There was a terrific exhibition of photographs taken during the strike and they were very moving. There was also a picture of Margaret Thatcher announcing the news that the miners were going back to work and the quote ‘I have been told I shouldn’t gloat, but I’m going to’. I couldn’t think of a worse thing for the leader of the country to say at that moment. Radio 2 on Sunday morning was early but seemed to go ok. So much is down to the person interviewing but there are ways of getting your points across. Manchester was certainly a happy place to be on the weekend. They won the FA Cup in Cardiff and famous son Morrisey came home to play..and i thought my lyrics were on the down side.