I guess it had to happen one day. . . !?
All joking aside, Gerald and I did a fantastic little duo gig yesterday evening, playing for a friend’s private art view. Part of the 2009 HVAF Open Studios, the show featured a collection of several artists’ work, and took place in the amazing old courthouse in [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Bizarre gig location!
Posted in Music, tagged acoustic, bbc, folk, Gerald Roberts, guitar, guitar music, HVAF, instrumental, jazz, Judge John Deed, Music, navaro, Open Studios, st albans, st albans town hall on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Trio play The Clocktower
Posted in Music, tagged acoustic, folk, folk music, Gerald Roberts, jazz, Music on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday just gone, the Roberts, Batkin, Andrews Collective performed their third gig, this time in front of the old Clocktower in St Albans city centre.
The weather was great, the crowd actually stayed around to listen – generally a good time was had by all… Above is one photo – again I’ve put lots more [...]
Me looking really miserable on BBC2!
Posted in Music, tagged BBC2, The Choir, soul music, band, iPlayer, BBC iPlayer.com on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just seen an episode of the BBC2 reality TV series ‘The Choir’ which
features a 2 second bust of me waiting to play with the soul band I do at
a mini-festival the BBC organised, standing in the rain under an umbreall
looking incredibly fed up!! (and slightly overweight maybe?)
It also features a 3 seconds burst of the [...]
Steampunk-style dials, gauges and doodads!
Posted in Stuff, tagged brass, signal box, st albans, steampunk on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As part of a city-wide day of activities that happened this Sunday in St Albans, certain buildings and attractions not normally open to the public opened their doors to visitors.
One of these was the old St Albans South Signal Box, situated alongside Platform 4 of the existing station and now fabulously restored by a dedicated [...]
Online video book review
Posted in Design/Creative on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was amazed the other day when my friend CCBB showed me a video on Expotv.com of a lady reviewing one of my old books for children.
Check it out here. . .
I wrote quite a few of these type of books a few years ago (some more complex than the one reviewed here, some less so [...]
Clivey’s Harp Guitar snippet
Posted in Music, tagged acoustic, guiharpitar, guitar, harp guitar on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just seen that my Guiharpitar has made it on to Harp Guitar.net, one of the premier Harp guitar websites. It’s a wonderful site, full of fascinating photos and information on these bizarre and unusual instruments.
Mine is shown on the bottom of the ‘Organology’ page , which is a bit tricky to find – visit [...]
Shed Night makes it to ReadersShed!
Posted in Stuff, tagged shed, shedblog on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Uncle Wilko of ReadersSheds was kind enough to add a little bit about my Shed Night post on his excellent blog about sheds – read it here. . .
Inaugural ‘Shed Night’ !
Posted in Stuff, tagged beer, DIY, shed, shed night, sheds, welding on September 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My old mate GG announced the other day he needed some welding doing on one of his bike parts. Rather than simply spending a wasted evening in the pub therefore (drinking too much Timothy Taylor Landlord and eating junk food, as we tend to do once in a while) we decided to combine the two [...]
