#alt-roots

Like the rest of you I’m sure, the pandemic and such has played havoc with my business and as a result things have been quiet. As the old finances began to crumble my ‘dot-com’ websites had to go and so this site will be serving as my main online presence from now on. I’ll try and get a more user-friendly URL sorted once things are looking up. Currently I ‘m looking at rebuilding the band (with…

As I continue to stagger on through Covidworld, wondering more and more if that’s really it for my career in music (sometimes finding it all rather upsetting and dispiriting, sometimes not giving two fucks), I find myself planning stuff again. Against my better judgement and all common sense, obviously.

MUSIC!

I’ll have more concrete details over the next week or so but in the meantime I…

Rehearsals with The Crow Bone Chorus have been going very well indeed, with some covers added to the mix. They’re sounding good and fit well with the set. There’s already enough material there to play as long a set as is needed with a varied set list from gig-to-gig. We’ve also started work on a demo which will likely be a YouTube/Soundcloud only kind of a thing.

While there’ll be a…

Look at that, my goodness. 2017 already. One way or another, this is going to be a very busy year, for me at least.  There are new EPs from both Dog Moon Howl and The Craig Hughes Two due for release over the next few months (details to be finalised for the Dog Moon Howl one at our first rehearsal of the year next weekend).  A series of self promoted gigs, possibly marking the return of the old…