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Open Mic

4 May 2007, 1:37 am

Well, I can now reveal that what I was planning to do was to go down and play a spot at the Hobbit’s open mic night. And I’m glad to say it went very well. Although I think the novelty of having someone playing melodeon probably helped a lot, my set went down really well. [...]

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Oxford Folk Festival

2 April 2007, 3:31 pm

Well, that was a good weekend, as usual. Concert on Friday evening was headlined by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, who were, I think even better than when I last saw them at Cropredy the year before last. The street procession with Melomania went well, although the promised appearance of John Kirkpatrick turned out [...]

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Search Concluded

17 July 2006, 10:07 pm

It must be over two years at least since I first heard Norwegian band Gåte‘s first album, Jygri. At the time I tried to track down a copy for myself, but could find no trace of it within the UK. I have tried again once or twice since, but with no success until yesterday, when [...]

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Cornbury

11 July 2006, 12:55 pm

Well, that was a good weekend. Robert Plant’s set was, as anticipated, most excellent. Melomania stuff went well, although to my disappointment we ended up still performing while Robyn Hitchcock and the Minus 3 were on, whom I’d been hoping to see. Still, the festival was otherwise good.

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The best thing about playing an instrument…

27 April 2006, 9:57 pm

…is that you get to go to festivals for free. Yes, I’ve finally got around to posting about O.F.F. two-and-a-half weeks after it actually happened. Friday night, saw wRants, Sue Brown & Lorraine Irwing, John Thompson and Short Drag Roger, all of whom were enjoyable but none of whom stood out as particularly outstanding. Then [...]

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OFF Website

13 January 2006, 1:09 pm

I see they’ve used the same picture of us as last year for the Oxford Folk Festival Website (a photo that was taken at OFF the year before last, in fact). Fair enough, it is a good pic, although it’s slightly misleading since that’s the only gig we’ve done where Jessica danced as well as [...]

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Pumping and Squeezing my Organ

14 December 2005, 12:59 pm

A marvellous weekend, I feel. Headed back to Oxford on Friday, where Jessica and I were playing at the Oxford Folk Club. Our first gig as the main attraction. I thought it went very well. Sure, there were mistakes, and Jessica was less pleased than I was, but I felt that it was probably the [...]

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Liege and Lief

25 October 2005, 5:26 pm

I was listening to Fairport Convention’s Liege and Lief album today. I hadn’t listened to it for some time, and it was nice to be reminded of why it’s the Best Record Ever. Everything about it is just so damn good. If ever a record deserved to have spawned (as it did) a genre it’s [...]

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Stuff

18 August 2005, 12:44 am

Whee! It’s working again! Whatever was rendering Blogger unable to publish anything to Dog seems to have gone away. So, Cropredy was, as expected, good. Particular highlights were Richard Thompson and Uiscedwr. Still haven’t sorted out any accommodation for next year in So’ton. Since I still haven’t heard anything, it seems very unlikely that I [...]

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Cropredy

11 August 2005, 10:16 am

Off to Cropredy Festival later today. Some great artists on this year; should be a good one.

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