May 12, 2008
Tags: live music, songwriting
Yesterday I heard the most insipid song ever written. That’s a bold statement, I know, but this song really made me cringe. It broke almost every rule of good songwriting, and was delivered in such an earnest and well-meaning way that it was hard to know whether to laugh or wretch.
It’s going to be difficult [...]
May 8, 2008
Tags: live music, promotion, radio
I took self publicity to a new level on May Day morning by playing Jungle Book songs at a champagne breakfast in Oriel College and getting booked to play their Guest Night dinner next week! And then on Sunday I played a great set with Jont on Radio 2…
h3. May Day shenanigans
May Morning in Oxford [...]
Apr 14, 2008
Tags: banjo, live music, radio
I played on “Radio 4″:http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/looseends.shtml on Saturday. It was the first time I had played on radio, the first time I had played Candlelit (Jont’s new single) live, the first time I had played the banjo in public and the first time I had met my childhood hero “Clive Anderson”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Anderson.
I learned a few things that [...]
Jan 21, 2008
Tags: live music, solo gigs, UNLIT
h3. *9/4/08 UPDATE*: Oxford UNLIT seen by thousands on YouTube!
Yesterday Jont posted the Oxford episode of his “The House We’re In” internet TV series, and already over 8,000 people have watched it! Wow. Why don’t you watch it too?:
So UNLIT was crazy. Almost a hundred people showed up, and the windows of The Boat (as [...]