May 2010

Not since discovering River six years ago has there been such an event. Caedmon were a lost legend, known to a hardcore of folkies and one-time fans. When I first heard their work, on an illicit down-load, I was blown …

Peace in the Fire, The Netherbow Theatre, 8th May.…

Where’s the park bench?…

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Caedmon – When the special and unique bands reform somewhere in the world, I try to get there if I can. When Comus reformed on a boat between Sweden and Finland, I was there. When Pentangle played Royal Albert …

A full house, with audience travelling from Washington DC, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Northumberland and Newcastle, with first timers from the Netherlands and Germany and of course, Edinburgh.

JIm’s ‘Old Enough to Know Better’ was storming with guests William Jaquet (kit), …

The Netherbow Theatre is small and intimate, the crowd almost filling it on the first night….. a loud hubbub of old friends sharing memories greeted the band as they took to the stage.

The first song was ‘Peace in the …

We’re installed and ready for a run through and sound check. See you tonight if you’re coming….…

At the farewell concert in 1978 there was quite a lot of black and white worn…… we never adopted a dress code: no equivalent to Beatles suits, not even Double Denim and Waistcoats (a popular folk rock dress format). But …

The weekend concerts are close. I promised a video of time-related imagery to back-project during the performance one of our new songs: ‘TIme Flies’. So ironic that the song it’s for details the dilemma I’m in “..Time flies when you’re …

Back home after seven solid days in the studio.

It’s Tuesday now and we perform our first concert for 32 years at 7.30pm on Friday……

You’d expect that a week of recording activity means that I now know all my …