I used to be very good at posting the setlist and a bit of a writeup here on LJ after gigs. Hey ho! Here's what we sang on Saturday at Chichester ( Read more... )

Over the past several years many of you have bought music downloads from me - not just through the big guys like iTunes and Maazon, who retail the mp3s of my studio albums, but especially thrrough Bandcamp, where it's been my habit and pleasure to make available out-of-print, topical, rough and fundraising projects ( Read more... )

Usual apologies for long time without posting here - I use Facebook extensively and Twitter an increasing amount, and poor old Livejournal falls by the wayside a little! However, here I am now, and this Summer's adventures included a wonderful nearly-week at Druidcamp, where we premiered 'God of Lost Things' and 'This Side of the Knife' (complete ( Read more... )

This video was going around on Facebook. In it, a small mouse finally succeeds in taking a biscuit several times her size up onto a shelf and away. I foolishly uttered the words 'I want to write a mouse shanty' and my Muse - who clearly has a low taste for bilingual puns, dropped this on my head in the ensuing 24 minutes ( Read more... )

Time for a bit of a catch-up; I've had one hectic weekend after the other this Autumn, beginning with a gig for the Green Party National Conference in Brighton, and moving rapidly on to the lovely Folk21 South West showcase event in the pretty Devon town of Torrington. From there (as the rest of the band headed home) I headed North for a family ( Read more... )

THE DAY THAT NOTHING HAPPENED

The flags went up with the bunting
And the crowds gathered out in the sun
There were journalists jostling for spaces
And excitement filled everyone

Just for once there was nobody fighting
No-one starved, or suffered or died
Not a thing went on in the whole wide world
(Well, unless the media lied)

So ( Read more... )

It's reached the stage where I've decided that I absolutely have to do what I can - whether it's 'enough' or not - towards a better future for this grey, crowded, unhappy little island. I love my country; I love the green fields and the apple trees and the standing stones and the woodlands. I even love the stone churches and the brass eagle ( Read more... )

Yes, I've signed the petitions. Yes, I liked her the original tomboy version too. But then, I would. I was such a tomboy myself as a girl... toying with alternative title 'Princess Enough'. Which do you think is the better title ( Read more... )

I can now announce that my mad plan for International Womens' Day has come to fruition.

Behold, eight tracks (seven songs and a spoken word piece), six of which were scratch-tracked in my kitchen last night. I only even thought of doing this on Tuesday at Bradford on Avon Folk Club, when Rosie announced she was singing for the Lord Mayor of ( Read more... )

...was to sing for the 'Trefoil Guild' - retired Guiders' group. These are ladies who've given much of their time and energy into making fun and educational things happen, mostly for other peoples' children. I was a Brownie and a Guide by turns myself, when I was much younger, and there was a certain demographic of energetic, capable older lady, ( Read more... )