Author Archives: Willie

Staring out of the train window yesterday, as we journeyed between Nagoya and Osaka, I found myself looking down at an immense river, quite shallow in places and almost an electric blue colour in the dazzling sunlight. As we sped past exotic bird life diving for fish (which is quite exciting in itself for me [...]

Ok, strap in or switch off, and somebody fetch me my saddle for I am mounting my high horse for a minor rant. As I’m sure you are aware, Japan is a very crowded island and as the cliche goes, for the most part everything is extremely well organised. Everybody is tolerant and considerate of [...]

I had eel for breakfast this morning. Ok I grant you, not the traditional opening to a blog or indeed a breakfast, but better shared I feel, and I wish I’d felt the same way about the eel. Tonight, we are in Sendai, Japan which you may remember, felt the sharp end of the tsunami [...]

We’re currently sitting in a restaurant in Plymouth with Ginger and the entire touring ensemble having a nibble, by way of a premature end of tour celebration. Last night, alongside our fellow bandmate Andy Lewis who joined us on a ‘one night only’ basis, we played at The Cavern in Exeter which was in Devon [...]

So head hung low, I am contrite and in need of forgiveness. Bedford Esquires was warm and welcoming and rather tempered the foul bile I was spitting at the world yesterday, albeit with the lighthouse of cynical bad tempered humour clearly on display. Having a stinking hangover is not a good reason for ripping the [...]