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The world may seem dark – Bush is locked in a bubble and planning to send more troops to Iraq, Tony Blair clings on tho his decaying reign, the new Dr Who is leaving, the Ashes are lost, mediocrity and incompetence rule the earth, read more

Did a gig with Gina last night, with Sandy Wright on guitar and Euan Burton on bass. Good turnout and lovely gig. Standing ovation again! Our kids came along and spent most of the time playing outside in the Grassmarket. They generally read more

Did a wedding near Dirleton today with Lianne Carroll and Roger Carey again – they are friends of the groom’s family. Lianne was absolutely amazing again. It reminded me of those Carlsberg ads….

Gina sat and sang ‘What a read more

Been up all night finishing a recording with Gina and Sandy for a demo track for the Brian Cox Birthday Party CD promo and getting the CD mastered and duplicated. This is how I look….. sounds great though….

I am in the final stages of closing down Caber Music ( see www.cabermusic.com). The last CDs got picked up from the office today. I will doing a press release soon. I am very sad and frustrated but also relieved it is drawing to a close.

We read more

Gina and I went to see the Peter Brötzman tentet tonight in Stirling. I was wanting to go after speaking to Louis De Carlo the photographer who said he was going and that I had to go. I was kind of lazing around and then went – read more

Did a radio session with Julian Arguelles tonight. Julian and I started playing duo together in a basement when I lived in Hunsdon Rd in London (and I was a medical student)  in the early nineties. We have done three gigs since then – read more

Friday night I took out Gina ( my gorgeous and talented wife), and Dave & Sam (our gorgeous and talented staff from ABC Creative Music – read more

(pic is me with lucky tour fire engine)

I was thinking about this whole blog thing. Part of the trip of being a jazz musician (at least for me) is that half the time I think “ the music I make is totally irrelevant to anybody and so who read more

Saw this in the staff room of a school in Dumfries & Galloway….