Archive for the ‘Road Blog’ Category

December already?

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006 Posted in Road Blog | 1 Comment »

Avid readers of this blog may wonder where November went and frankly, I share your sense of bafflement. The six weeks which have passed since I last posted here have been a blur of activity which has left me scarce ...

13th October - On the road again

Sunday, October 15th, 2006 Posted in Road Blog | 2 Comments »

Arriving home on Monday afternoon, I had just enough time to kiss the missus, hug the boy, walk the dog and change my underwear before heading out on the road again. As I was whisked off to Birmingham to start ...

8th/9th October - Flying Home

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 Posted in Road Blog | 15 Comments »

Hit the ground running in Los Angeles – straight from the airport to the CBS TV studios to record a couple of songs on the Late Late Show hosted by Craig Ferguson which goes out at half past midnight on ...

3 October - Los Angeles

Friday, October 6th, 2006 Posted in Road Blog | 4 Comments »

Flying over the Hollywood Hills into Los Angeles, what better music to be listening to than that of local boys Little Feat? Lowell George’s classic road ballad Willin’ is playing on my headphones as we swoop low over a sprawling ...

29 September - Vancouver

Friday, September 29th, 2006 Posted in Road Blog | 8 Comments »

Despite the inauspicious start, Ottawa turned out to be a cracking gig, a small club with a sold out, mostly stand-up audience. I somehow got on to regaling them with tales from my goat-herding days, specifically details of how the ...

26 September - Winnipeg

Thursday, September 28th, 2006 Posted in Road Blog | 2 Comments »

How hard is it to start a show? Artist appears in the wings, gives nod to back-line tech who flashes his torch at the soundman who puts on the intro music from which the lighting man takes his cue to ...

23 September - Ottawa, Canada

Monday, September 25th, 2006 Posted in Road Blog | 15 Comments »

The Chateau Fairmont is one of those grand turn of the century hotels that were built at railheads across the British Empire. Its opening in 1912 was delayed for several months after its owner, the general manager of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway ...