Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Chester Fest


In a field putting finishing touches on a song I have written through correspondence with a beekeeper.  A red spotted faun runs through the field just as I am wondering have I got this right.

Chester Festival was wonderful.   Wonderful 60’s feel.  Views of mountains – fabulous people, flowery fields and the best chips in Cheshire.

Good to be back working on new material for Dartington Hall gig in July.

Sunday, 22 May 2011

Once

Once I was very very ill and I re-read the books of my childhood
One of them being the Observer Book of Wild Flowers,
Published in 1951.
A gift from mother
 It described flowers I had never seen and a world I had not seen. 

 I had a dream of a world filled with such flowers and such life as there once must surely have been.

Years later I travelled  through mountains to a farm and I awoke on the 7th August 2007 and I walked out  at dawn into the fields.

 I climbed a hill and I turned and I saw it: the luminous landscape of my dream rising out of deep, brown soil in brilliant sunshine under a cloudless blue expanse. 

 Then I wrote this song.......

It’s the first time I have been at the wheels of control(digital mixing machine)
I need to go back to the woods now to regain my composure.