Atlantic Drifter in Hong Kong – gigs – Peel Fresco
PEEL STREET FRESCO, CENTRAL, HONG KONG.Walking from the Soho levels down, threading between dark wooden restaurants, Peel street begins with the reek of incense, throat-scratchingly intense. The always burning smoke in a small alcove, red tiled, functional, with an indecipherable inscription hidden in a lockable niche. PEEL STREET FRESCO, CENTRAL, HONG KONG. Just down...
Atlantic Drifter in Hong Kong – gigs – Bookworm Café
The Bookworm Café is nestled in a quiet corner of a quiet little town on a quiet island. It still has something of the wild Asia of my imaginings – haphazard structures that seem to have coalesced organically, cicadas in the Needle Pines, the air filled with the sound of their dry crackled wings. I’m...
Atlantic Drifter Tour goes to Hong Kong
Flying out of Europe in the rain – like pushing through gray felt, fibres catching at the wings. A brilliant blue was with us most of the way, sunshine curling round the top of the world, stained the colour of air. Catching a little fitful sleep I woke to the most brilliant light. So hard...
Cefn Ymarfer Coed Naturial festival in Coed Nant Gain
: ) Cefn Ymarfer Coed Naturial festival in Coed Nant Gain was a truly exceptional gig : ) Iliffe the forest Steward is 7 feet tall with fiery red hair and as spindly as a birch sapling. Songbirds and insects buzzed a continuo for our songs – yellow archangel, stitchwort and germander speedwell were our...
Postcards from the Road – launch tour : )
The warm and rainstorm winter and recent sun has left Shropshire blazing – deep green blood flowing underground as the yellow scent of Rapeseed fogs the air. Seven coloured linnets flit like messengers between rainbow and sunshower. Next weekend the green flood will see me in Rhayader at Landed Festival – singing my heart out...
Shallow Brown
Shallow Brown – a song about drifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast of America. I started with Blackbeard on Ocracoke and finished with sand and the soul trace of Myrna Loy on Venice Beach, California
Atlantic drifter – summer tour ’14 : )
Very happy to announce this year’s summer tour. Hope to see you somewhere on the road! x 25.3 Helsinki, Finland http://www.aalto.fi 26.3 Arabiankatu, Finland http://www.aalto.fi 27.3 Kapelli, Finland http://valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/fi/tulossa-en 2–3.5 Landed Festival, Rhayader, Wales http://www.landedfestival.co.uk 4.5 Sun Festival, Severn Meadows, Low Town, Bridgnorth http://tiny.cc/myn9dx 17.5 Celf Ymarfer Coedwig Naturial, Coed Nant Gain www.naturalforestpractice.com www.freetheforest.org 18.5...
New festivals just in : Landed Festival, Rhayader and Folk on the Park, Lacon : )
Home after sea ice and brilliant light – today Shropshire sun sucked the scent from magnolia, lavender and cherry blossom. Here, suddenly, it’s spring and I come laggardly to this shout of green. Later, lead tatters hugged the evening horizon while in high clear blue a sliver moon shaped a smile. A swallow skimmed my head today...
Finland tour blog
Tour blog – music, photo, travelogue mashup goes to Finland Departures – so nothing and nowhere – it’s a no place and no time. Such marvels, though, wait through the doors at the end of these silver tubes : ) Looking for Noggin. I’m flying, so half my face is suffering speed blur — ...
Music – photo – travelogue mashup goes to Finland
Delighted to be taking a bunch of songs, pictures and travel stories to Finland, hosted by Aalto University. Weather forecast is icy, with a strong chance of Moomins x