This is a track ‘Secret Path’ from a great new album from Fraser Fifield which I am playing on.

You can hear whole album here:

https://fraserfifield.bandcamp.com

This was a concert during lock down in May 2021. Phil and I had been playing together alot at his farm during lockdown in a barn.

Really enjoyed this session – although the Blue Lamp with an audience is one of my favourite places to play!

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Of interest to Bodhran Geeks/Southern Indian Music Fusion Freaks/Supporters of Men in Man Caves/People in People Caves….

So I am delighted to say that I came third in a global Southern Indian online drumming competition!

I had to send a video of me playing a composition by TVG (see below) in round one, and then I got to the final and the 9 finalists were sent a brand new composition which we had about 3 days to learn. Then we had to send a video of us playing the read more

Yes this is total showing off…. but fuck it…

I recorded these for an interview for a research thing. It was fun so I thought I’d put them up here. I was in Ghana and during the recording I get interrupted by my wife, nearly burn down the hotel room, there’s a lizard, and my wife read more

This is a beautiful music manifesto/poem from the  sorely missed wonderful person and musician – Scottish bass and tuba player Lindsay Cooper.

To see the pdf click here

Playtime Interval Interview: Tom Bancroft – Good bits that couldn’t fit into the interviews with Greg Lawson, Haftor Medböe, and Paul Towndrow. With Tom Bancroft

Playtime Interval Interview: Tom Bancroft interviews Dutch musician Jorrit – who is based in Boston – about being Dutch, jazz and improvised music as a form of resistance and protest, and reflect on the Multi Story Karma Park gig from 1997 – which featured Jorrit and Martyn Bennett (who died 16 years ago today) amongst many others – with some video footage from that gig featuring Martyn.. It is beautiful!

Playtime Interval Interview: Tom Bancroft interviews New York’s David Berkman ahead of him joining Playtime for a live remote transatlantic improv session on January 29th at 8.15pm GMT (3.15 EST. and 1.15 pm PST. Find the livestream on YouTube read more