Tongight, 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 :

Ed Dupas, Tim Grimm & The Family Band, The Northern Empty, Colvin Quarmby, Vikki Clayton, Jigantics, Joe Topping, Jack Van Cleef, Nick Scanlon, Gabe Dixon, Gilmore & Roberts, The Rosellys, Flossie Malavialle, Iona Lane, Kelly Joe Phelps, The Emporiums, Austin Basham, Jaden LaRue, Tuck & Patti, Ani DiFranco, Fleetwood Cave...

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

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

Would anyone be around Cropredy tomorrow (Weds) night(maybe on F8/CoC) and heading for Trad Arrr in  Banbury  fancy sharing a lift or maybe a taxi? I don't fancy the idea of driving back in between the tents after dark...

It has only taken me nine hours to get this joke 😆

Last time I was there nine years ago, I dodged several piles of dog-tritus. Regardless of whether dogs are encouraged, discouraged, etc., I hope my fellow humans will pick up after them.

The Drum Center of Portsmouth, New Hampshire (apparently the largest independent drum store in the world) interviews DM in depth !

Lots of technical drum stuff, but DM's always interesting to listen to - he's like a professor of drumming...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo5z3N6HXgY

 

I bet if the dogs were carrying cameras they’d have been right on it. 😄

CRT advise that the canal is now closed until 2nd October.
They're taking advantage of the current situation with water shortages to replace gates at Ayhno lock 33 at Adderbury.

Weather forecasts from Met Office, BBC, and yr.

So pleased that Wendy wasn’t  on this land you could do your festivals, must be rotten for her.

There's quite a list of people on FB saying they're not coming because of their dogs. There's also some people who can't come because of the effects of heat and bright sunlight on the increasing amounts of medications that the Cropredy demographic are taking.

After a tick bite earlier in the year, Wendy was on Doxycycline. That made her super-sensitive to strong sunlight and if she was still on that, she'd have never been able to undertake the round of festivals we're going to, this summer.

So I'm sympathetic, but this was utterly predictable and what we're seeing is the triumph of common sense over optimistic bookings from earlier in the year.

No wonder they can't get 20,000 people to turn up any more!