Summer has ended and autumn is upon us. Golden leaves, shorter days and of course more rainier moments here in London Town. People sigh as they need to wear jumpers and warm coats and carry umbrellas everywhere…. Some of us have suffered from ‘change of the weather’ fluey type affairs with sore throats and coughing and spluttering fits a sure reminder that winter is nigh!

I have loved September 2010 and all the wonderful people I have met at my gigs … Thanks to the kindly folk at the venues I have frequented including > Folkadot 1st Sept with Johnny Berliner lovely gig loved the Band Th’ Parish who also played that night > Enfield Town Festival on 4th Sept – really enjoyed the sets I played in the Park and the belly dancing! > Chatham salute to the Forties Weekend 18th/19th Sept I loved the Dockyard and this historical reenactment weekend and definitely see you next year I met the lovely people at the USO stage and Madelaine Brown a wonderful 1940s singer!!! see below I am playing on the back of Army Truck just like when the 1940s artists like Vera Lynn and George Formby played on the ENSA stages for the troops in WW2! >

I also loved supporting the Mediaeval Baebes on their Autumn tour at St John-at-Hackney Church > playing at Nick Marsh’s album launch gig on The Ship Of Fools at Bar & Co, Temple Pier > and at various secret gigs for various high profile fashionistas at London fashion week…

The biggest thrill for me was to have our documentary ‘Kazik and the Kommander’s Car’ played at the Portobello Film Festival again and to go on Joanne Good’s BBC radio show with Hannah Lovell [the film director] and talk about our creative processes. We are particularly all over the moon that Kazik is getting better with his new pacemaker and that he is on good form to come and visit London in March 2011. Kazik loves to sing and I will be seeing him very soon in Poland and beckoning him into a recording studio in Gdansk to sing on a famous Polish underground army tune to accompany a rerelease of my tribute song to his story of escape ‘Kommander’s Car.’

In addition thanks to Simon Price for his time to spot our ‘ukulele breakbeat folk’ over the summer and mention us in ….

link below….

Thurs 16th October

I look forward to working on my new album with my main collaborator Francesca Ter-Berg which I will be releasing in spring next year.

I would also like to say a big thankyou to John Constable for introducing me to his Southwark and the series of wonderful free walks he hosted around this area of London Town …. Setting eyes on the Crossbones Graveyard in Redcross Way SE1 for the first time was a certainly momentous occasion and one that I will remember for a long time to come – so expect songs !@!! also I was very honoured to sing on John’s forthcoming album so pleased I could become involved. Thanks to Nigel Of Bermondsey for his recordings x x x