Category: Blog

  • Playing the Country Star album

    Just played a bunch of shows in Australia with Madelief van Vlijmen on bass and Ebgert de Jongh on guitar. This shot is from a killer gig in the old town hall in West Kempsey on the Mid North Coast of NSW where I grew up. Cattle country, big rivers, big scrub and big beaches.…

  • Australian Tour

    Just a few more sleeps!! Get your tickets here

  • The records out – now what?

    The new record COUNTRY STAR came out on 2 June and gigs are planned for July & August in Australia, and for the fall in Europe (tickets in link!). There has also been attention in the music press like the story below from Music Maker in The Netherlands. They wrote that it was a “beautiful…

  • new song just out

    new song just out

    I know it – I’m not a COUNTRY STAR. It’s just the title of my upcoming album (due June 2, 2023). It’s not even a country record. At a stretch its alt-country but that’s a straight-jacket that doesn’t cut it for me either. A blogger in Philadelphia recently reviewed the opening track DON’T SMOKE IN…

  • New plans for a new year

    God willing and the creek dont rise an album release in April/May followed by a bunch of shows. I have began a partnership with Gijs at Harvest Music in Eindhoven who will be booking gigs and running a promotion campaign for the release of “Country Star” this year. I’m pretty happy to be on board…

  • Studio 150 Bethlehemkerk – Amsterdam

    December 15, 2022 / 19:30 – 21:30

  • Studio 150 Live Show

    We have have just been back to Studio 150 for a live recording session in front of an audience. This was just so cool.  We previwed material from the upcoming new album COUNTRY STAR and tried sme new stuff out as well.

  • Story Song Time

    Ive done a handful of these. They are 15-20 minutes long. I place them on my youtube channel or on social. I tell a story or an anecdote, create a little film footage and play a song or two. This one is called “Jungle Perch”. It’s me and a childhood friend of mine out on…

  • Taking it slow in mix-down

    Zlaya is working from a semi-permanent studio in a hotel basement in Barcelona that he’s recently moved into. I dont have a picture of him or his set up. Thats a bummer really he deserves some attention as his role as a partner in this adventure is crucial. But here are a few more pics…

  • Shows come and shows go but the music sticks around

    A show will come in out of the blue then dissappear into thin air like a bubble bursting the moment it hits the surface. Thats what Covid is like. Ive had 3 or 4 of these tenuous, transient offers come up in the last few weeks. Here one second gone the next. My gig list…