Musician, writer, born 30th July 1960. Guitarist, sitarist, bass guitarist, singer-songwriter, played with Cornershop, Natacha Atlas, TreaTmenT, Lunar Dunes, Errol Linton, The Hipshakers. Written for Music Week, Music and Musicians, House of Dolls, For The Record, Rock’s Back Pages…
Writing
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In Church With The Detroit Cobras
(Note: since this was written Rachel Nagy died in still unexplained circumstances. A tragedy.) For me, it happened like this. In April 2003 I was…
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Tryin’ To Get To Elvis
In the library today I put on the Sun Sessions to cheer me up while I was working. When it came around to the…
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Gentleman Joe Strummer
Written when I heard the news of Joe Strummer’s tragically early death. —— Back in the winter of 1975, when I was 15, I went…
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For Sandy Denny (and Lester Bangs)
This is a piece I wrote in 1988. I wished that Lester Bangs had written an obituary for Sandy Denny so I decided to try…