Monthly Archives: July 2011

Moving House

27 Wednesday Jul 2011

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I’m exhausted and dirty. We’re moving back to Bristol which is very exciting but packing up is horrible. I have to pack everything here and also leave it clean (of course) and pack up the Bristol flat as well and basically do two moves back to my house in Bristol in two stages.

We’ll be properly moved in by August 18th – hurray.

Also this weekend we’ve been very lucky to get tickets for WOMAD and in a couple of weeks Tribe Of Doris so it’s all go.

Last weekend was P’s son’s wedding up in Horwich which was lovely.

No time to draw breath but life is fine.

Blogging

20 Wednesday Jul 2011

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I had fun yesterday designing a new blog page for Rhymester who’s coming over from Efx2 as he can’t get in to his blog there any more and revamping mine too as I like to change it from time to time to keep the interest up!

He writes great poems so should be some interesting posts coming up soon.

I’m excited about moving back to Bristol imminently so will be busy packing everything up soon. Have also been updating my radio stations at Over The Moon so lots of great tracks to listen to from many diverse artists.

Drum Camp

13 Wednesday Jul 2011

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I’m just back from a weekend camping at an event we have here called Drum Camp which takes place in Suffolk.

Not only did I attend wonderful workshops with the great Modou Diouf, sabar player and teacher but I also got to sit in on a workshop with Justin Adams (a fantastic blues guitarist) who collaborates with an amazing Gambian riti player (African violin) called Juldeh Camara. They are worldclass musicians and teachers and the evening entertainment cannot be easily described as it so good!!

Justin and Juldeh Camara

To top it all off, I met a really good guitarist/drummer who really liked my music and is interested in playing on my new album when I start recording.

All in all a fabulous weekend.

I’m now staying on a barge on the Thames as we’re supporting another week of workshops at SOAS with Modou in London playing the chol drums for a sabar class (the chols are the bass drums equivalent to the duns for djembe and they’re my speciality).