Yippee booked and paid for today…

No idea where the caravan will be parked and hoping I can get round on my rollator as I won’t have my mobility scooter…. BUT WE WILL BE THERE… at last!!!

See lots of you in four weeks. 🩷🩷🩷

Tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm : Scattering The Roots with Dan Ogus...two hours of the finest folk, roots, blues, etc...plenty of etc...

I've rifled through my vaults to bring you some excellent music both new and vintage every Wednesday evening...

This week's show features the following artists :

Shawn Colvin, Danni Nicholls, Ezio, Daniel Nestlerode, Richard Thompson, The Weight Band, The Band, Joe Bonamassa, Gene Clark, Jinder, The Cousins Project, Show Of Hands, Fairport Convention, Bruce Springsteen, Rory Block, Jo Harman, Emilie Lierre, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, Small Faces...

Listen tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm on Portsmouth's Express FM, on DAB and online here :

https://www.expressfm.com/programmes/scattering-the-roots/

I have a ticket for Jim Causley and Miranda Sykes in December at the Lighthouse in Poole

Can't believe I've just bought a ticket for my first Christmas gig this year - Cara Dillon at the Tung in Liverpool in December. It'll soon be here.

Miles :  Decoy.

2 years before the great Tutu, and  equally amazing. Why have i waited so long to  get this.

Regarding BEAT, I thoroughly enjoyed it even though I’m unfamiliar with the music. Those guys blew me away, even though it was occasionally difficult to ascertain what the guitarists were doing (the music is so complex). Steve Vai grinned through the whole show, clearly soaking up the Crimson love coming from the audience.

Regarding the Pauls, I saw Macca and Simon both within the last year. Simon’s voice is holding up remarkably well, perhaps better now than a few years ago. He reconfigured his band to reduce the noise level on stage, which may be helping him sing better. McCartney’s voice is all over the place, and no one (including me) is bothered in the least while grooving to that songbook.

However, my voice is OK - I am, though, younger than Messrs Simon & McCartney!

David - I bought the BEAT album last year - they all sound and look fine to me. Vai's not trying to replicate Fripp, but he's darn good, IMO.

I've been getting videos of classical music guitarists on Instagram recently, all of them female for some reason. The latest is a Polish lass called Kasia Smolarek whose latest album Home Sessions I've downloaded from Bandcamp. It includes Erik Satie's Gnossienne No. 1.

David was referring to a "Paul", so I guess either will suffice.

Art Garfunkel.

Jules