The Highchurches
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This Machine Kils Wasps with MJ Hibbett and Chris Thorpe-Tracey / The Highchurches do a gig on a barge in Shoreham
Tickets are now on sale for a special This Machine Kills Wasps in Brighton on Friday 15th August. MJ Hibbett and Chris Thorpe-Treacy have both been massive influences on my life, my music, and my philosophy. Hibbett writes amazing songs and taught me you don’t need anyone’s permission to make music; Chris writes amazing songs… Read more
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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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The Halfchurches Take Shoreham
Due to various types of exhaustion, only two of the band made it to Shoreham this evening for a mooted open mic gig. Thus The Halfchurches was born, to go alongside our other doppelgängers, The Girlchurches (the rest of the band without me), and The Burnchurches (our Norwegian Black Metal side project). [1] The Duke… 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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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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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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Wake me up before you play a gig in a Grade II listed gothic ex-church
It’s been a breakneck few days since my dad’s funeral, which went about as well as these events can. The turnout was huge, and the wake was full of stories and cheer. Lots of people from Dad’s overlapping lives (work, family, being a geezer) came up to me to say how much they enjoyed the… Read more
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Brighton Folk Choir End Of Term Show
Summer is Icumen In, and with it, my folk choir breaks up for the holidays. To celebrate, we had an end-of-term show, with any choir member invited up to sing a song, recite a poem, or dance a belly. I wish we’d do this more often. I love folk choir, and Jo is an amazing… Read more
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This Machine Kills Wasps with Jason Pegg, The Highchurches, Jamie Mykaela, Blank Peng and Rob Duncan
Cor that was a good one. Initial signs were troubling. Ticket sales were a bit sluggish compared to February, with Brighton a bit show’d out after a May of the Fringe and The Great Escape, for fans of the arts and artwashing respectively. But in the end we had a pretty much full room for… Read more
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Songwriting is like welding two cars together but you don’t know where either car came from
I was going to go to an open mic tonight, and practiced three songs of mine and one cover in preparation. I then banged my head on the entrance to a medieval alley – York, knock it all down and start again – and took longer than I expected to make dinner. And lo, was… Read more
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