November 2009
51 posts
Birmingham…
Bristol…
Edinburgh…
one of my favourite european cities…awesome crowd that night!!
Belfast…
Den Haag… Day 6
Switzerland… Day 5 of the d? europe tour
Troths by Carl Sandberg
Yellow dust on a bumble bee’s wing, Grey lights in a woman’s asking eyes, Red ruins in the changing sunset embers: I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.
via Simon Parkin @ chewingpixels.com
poetry of the soul
Had a really inspiring night watching Martyn Joseph tonight…it’s a total challenge to hold a stage and audience totally solo, but the combination of musicianship and soul unpacking lyrics was a total treat…
the bonus? in chatting with him found out he’s a mad keen golfer…maybe a trip to wales with the sticks is in order… :)
Of mice and me...
In my garage there lives a mouse..
I’m just glad he’s not in the house..
At last got some internettage and able to upload day 4….
Vienna is beautiful! even more so for some of our girls came out!! yeehah!! much much fun had oh yeah…the gig was awesome!!!
filming of the gig courtesy of Karen g. nice work!!!
welcome to suisse...
stopped for 3 hours at the border…because of t-shirts…which were nearly left behind…
awoke with dry mouth…and humungous headache…search for coffee resulted in red bull and advil cocktail…it worked….am now trawling thru yesterday’s vienna videos an hours worth which i need to get down to 3 mins….
we had a great day yesterday having the girls...
Yo Day 3 of tour 2nd gig…behind the scenes fun
1 down...
so first gig of the HM tour went rather well… rehearsals paid off thank goodness!!
i’ve never had so many clothing changes in a set before…feels like i’m in the west end!!
highlights of the day were:
an amazing chat with john one of our bus drivers…turns out he runs six orphanages in romania…320 kids, and he’s spent and sold almost everything he has to...
the calm before the storm before the calm...
a weekend for “koching”…eden’s word not mine…
http://koching.urbanup.com/1844776
a perfect saturday afternoon...
lovin watching the abc of boogie woogie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dic_cd4sJL8
ok my bad....
ok my bad….video post is now not private!! apologies ha!!
what to do???
so in the middle of rehearsals…and the boys have given me an acoustic spot in the middle.
thing is, after the summer and doing a solo festival gig i’ve got a choice of material now, so what do you want to hear… a d? song, a cover??
so votes please from the following…
Rollercoaster
King Of Fools
Umbrella (Rihanna)
Heartless (Kanye West)
Angel in disguise
I really...
Shane Beales
Shane is an amazing songwriter and artist…
Earlier this year we wrote and recorded an ep called heavy clouds…i highly recommend you check it out!! you can download it for free at http://www.heavy-clouds.com/
let me know what you think…
endings...beginnings...
here we are…in rehearsals for the final tour for all things delirious?…after 17 years and just recently 18 months of preparing for this, its finally coming to an end
so how am i feeling?? well that’s not easy to answer… it’s not bitter…it’s not sweet…
it’s a bit about the ending, but more about a new beginning…as i said it’s been...