Minds Music Monday – C Moon Cry Like A Baby
It’s Monday. It’s July 1st…there’s only one thing for it!
Drum Lesson And Practice – June 29th, 2019
Yesterday was the first tuition I’ve had in two months. Gareth was great. Started me back right from scratch, really. We went right back to basics. We worked on stick grip, rudiments, grooves and fills. I can’t really talk a lot about it…not really going into much detail. And it felt a lot to take…
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Ruts DC – Pelton Arms, Greenwich – June 28th, 2019
Jumped on the tickets when it was first announced. At £10 a throw, they were not to be sneezed at. I thought Greenwich might be a bit of a pain to get to…but hey, the gig would be great so we’d cross that bridge on the day. Well, as it happened, we could get a…
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The Anchoress – First Tour Date Announced!
The follow up to groundbreaking debut, Confessions Of A Romance Novelist, is due out soon and with that comes tour dates. First cab of the rank is this! Click the image below to be taken to the Woodfired Summit website for tickets (or click HERE). Sadly I am at the drum show in Manchester that…
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What’s To Come – The Gig For The Second Half Of The Year
Things have been pretty quiet gigwise since The Stranglers and Stewart Copeland gigs at the end of March. I had wanted to see Michael Rother in London, but it was too soon after the previous two gigs mentioned for me to go. Too skint too. Had to knock trying to get to Mott The Hoople…
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Remote Musical Collaborations
A friend – Scott – has been really lovely in giving me encouragement and support with the drumming practice. He plays guitar and bass and has taken a few of my drum samples and added to them. I never thought this would become “a thing”. That someone would want to use my drum parts to…
The Wright Stuff
The full piece on Andy Wright from the latest Classic Pop issue below. If at the main site, click on the post header to then view the pages by clicking on them and accessing zoom options on the bottom right of the page. If at the post page already…just click on the thumbnails!
Minds In America Live Album?
I’m sure it doesn’t seem the case to those who THINK they know me…I’m sure I seem the biggest blabber mouth on the face of the earth, but I CAN keep a bloody secret! One that I was (somewhat accidentally, admittedly) entrusted with was the info there was going to be a live release from…
Jobbo Talks To Zal Cleminson About SAHB
A short piece from Classic Rock magazine in which Richard Jobson talks to Sensational Alex Harvey Band member Zal Cleminson about the band and Alex.
Why I Love…New Warm Skin
I cannot reiterate how great a lot of Simple Minds B sides are. Most of them became an “also ran” at the expense of a song that makes it onto an album. I would easily swap Special View for Sad Affair, for example. Others would swap Veldt for Kaleidoscope (as although the song wasn’t released…