Author Archives: Willie

Laden with Yorkshire promise, rich with architectural, botanical and historical heritage, Huddersfield is a town. We did a gig there. It was good…………. Well you try and write this crap every day. Quite how people keep up an endless dialogue on something like Twitter and keep it interesting or at least amusing is well beyond [...]

There’s no point in skirting around this. Last nights gig in Bolton was just plain weird. Weird in a very good way I should add. The Dog and Partridge must be the strangest venue I’ve ever played. A peculiar and tiny little ancient pub with odd shaped and exotically painted rooms at every turn, (see [...]

All done then. Time to wash hands thoroughly before moving swiftly on. Birmingham was a fine way to end a great tour. John and I would like to thank everyone for a fantastic reception everywhere we played, and a special thanks for all the socks you brought us and the huge pile of Cadbury Flakes [...]

The thing is, whatever I say of a complimentary nature, will inevitably sound insincere. It’s in my nature. I don’t mean to sound perpetually cynical, but I do. Or so I’m told. Evidently, from my mouth, “I love you” has rather less conviction and meaning than a casual request to ‘pass the salt’. All musicians [...]