songwriting
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The Threechurches take Shoreham
A lovely gig at a friendly open mic in Shoreham. The Welly is a pub that quite clearly plays a crucial role in the town’s music ecosystem – here you find local teens (underage, but allowed to play), wizened singer-songwriter hobos, and a backbone of regulars who add percussion, piano, and even flute to anyone… Read more
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Word With The Bird @SweetFest, Yellow Book
Last Saturday afternoon I appeared as headliner at the final “Word With The Bird” all-ages show, hosted and produced by Mark Tournoff. I’d not met Mark before, but he seems a most well connected man. I bemusedly shared a video promoting our show from local MP Sian Berry, before discovering that Kim Fuller, who wrote… Read more
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Andrew “Tiny” Wood and the art of songwriting
All this mess and blood and grime and snail-slime makes life.Puritans wash clean their filthy rotten soulsNothing growsGod is love; love is dirt, uncleanWe are unclean – Ultrasound, “Sovereign” Ultrasound were my favourite band when I was eighteen. And your favourite band when you’re eighteen stays with you forever. Led by the fabulous Tiny Wood,… Read more
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This Machine Kills Wasps with Lachlan Werner, Charlie Vero-Martin, Leslie Bloom, JoJo Maberly, Queen Mab and The Highchurches
I struggle the day after shows. After the high, and the interacting with many wonderful people, comes the low, and the barely being able to get out of bed or leave the flat. I finally made it out just after seven pm yesterday evening, and something very lovely indeed happened. I walked straight into Queen… Read more
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Singing at Sharp’s Folk Club, Cecil Sharp House, for the first time
I used to be a regular at Sharp’s. Heck, I even wrote about it, when one of the legendary folk club’s legendary performers died. My friend Anna has been trying to get me to sing there for at least fifteen years, but I was always too shy. No excuse this time: with her up from… Read more
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The Highchurches at The Court, Sweet @ The Yellow Book, Brighton
Our fifth gig as a four piece, and our third venturing beyond our spiritual and (kind of) actual home of The Folklore Rooms. The Court is a monthly celebration of folklore, produced by the marvellous Hattie Snooks and JD Henshaw. This was an imbolc special, for which we were treated to tales of the Celtic… Read more
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Recording Artiste
As of today, I’m a professional musician. Strange thing to write, but true. In the morning I will invoice for my services as 1 x folk singer (tenor). What the song is, and how it sounds, I’ll save writing about until we have a release date. But my huge thanks to Jo for giving me… Read more
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This Machine Kills Wasps Featuring Coal Porters, Laurie Black, The Highchurches, Jen Zheng, and Mary Flannigan.
A belated write up of the final Wasps of 2024, a lovely night where I learned a very important lesson about anxiety (it’s bad, and there should be less of it). My main worry was the Coal Porters fans, and whether they’d go for any of the other acts. I don’t really know what I… Read more
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