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I have news. Good news. About the book that people are calling ‘not finished yet is it Dave?’ It’s been a blissful ten years since George put down his bass, left the Artful Badgers and vowed never to play in public again. But when tragedy strikes his best friend he’ll do anything to help. Unfortunately […]
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This weekend was carnival time in my terrifying little corner of Devon. A time when our primeval fear of the cold and dark leads us to set fire to things and throw them at each other. I knew this because my google calendar set off my ancient primeval fear of the cold and dark by […]
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Being a reliable dep bassist/guitarist I regularly play with a lot of different people in a lot of different bands. I have done for longer than I care to admit, yet it still amazes me how often I come across people who cannot play nicely with others. I don’t mean the usual muso problems (that […]
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I’ve written a lot of stuff about fathers and sons over the years – it’s the central theme of my most recent novel Gap Years – and I don’t think any of my books fail to mention that defining moment in life when you realise your father is not an all-powerful, omniscient creature. Sorry Dad […]
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It is now a truth universally acknowledged that anybody who does anything creative will get battered for expressing personal opinions online. We get told artists aren’t supposed to have political views. Don’t alienate your potential customers, stick to writing/singing/crochet/cheese-making. You know, like George Orwell, Peggy Seeger, Margaret Atwood and Chuck D. Well fuck that. I’ve […]
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One thing I’ve noticed about getting older is that my pop-culture references are going out of date. My random shouts of, ‘Monkey Tennis!’ at trailers for new TV shows, or, ‘It wasn’t me that done it, Mr Hoppy!’ in a geordie-esque accent are often met with blank stares anwyay. But most people used to at […]
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The worst advice my father ever gave me was: ‘If you don’t know the answer, make something up and say it authoritatively enough that nobody questions you.’ I think he meant it as a joke, but one of my friends once told me that while I would undoubtedly be useful as a phone a friend […]
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Unless you’ve had me muted for the last month (which is entirely possible) then you’ll know my new book just completed a blog tour (follow the link for an explanation if you don’t know what that is). I’m quite pleased with how it all came out, and, while I promise I am working on new […]
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No, not Christmas, and no, not going back to work yesterday morning. Neither of those are really my bag, baby. I’m talking about New Year. I’m fairly sure I’ve written about it before, but I can’t be arsed to hunt through old blog entries to look it up so if this is identical, then I’m […]
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The big news this Christmas is that I finally finished the book I told myself I wasn’t good enough to write. It’s coming out in February with massed fanfares and another top notch blog tour care of Rachels Random Resources (doing the hard work so I don’t have to). It is called Gap Years and […]
