S*T*U*F*F* Reloaded

Situation at this point:
Its 22:15 in Trencin, Slovakia. I’m sitting outside a very strange hotel that has just opened for us - not really ready for guests. By that I mean such delights as no phones, and a large plank of wood where the door to the swimming pool should be.
Our truck has broken down [...]

We’re climbing into the heavens on an Iberia Airlines jet. In the name of passenger comfort, some airline exec has asked his wife to put together a collection of her favourite easy-listening cover versions so that the poor folk travelling with Iberia get subjected to this musical drivel to the point of insanity. I mean, [...]

Call me pretentious but I think I’m finally getting a handle on why French wine is superior to New World wines… its like true beauty and the mystery of attraction versus plain pumped-up glamour.
I opened a bottle of Bouchard-Finlayson “Hannibal” 2004 last night - a South African recommended to me when I took a recent [...]

At least ten times a day, the thought crosses my mind that modern life in “developed” countries is just insane. The things we worry about, the craziness of the things we have to do making us stressed out and completely crazy in response. Like air travel and all that goes with it - Foy Vance [...]

Having played Oxegen festival in Ireland last night, pretty much all the bands were heading over to play “T in the Park” today… and we were ALL on the same plane. It was great crack, if slightly surreal - Snow Patrol (good to see some old faces!!), Queens Of The Stone Age (long live Josh [...]

Foy’s album “Hope” is out today. Just Google “foy vance hope” and buy it. That’s an order. Not only is it full of drifting magic both soulful and shambolic, perfect and imperfect, light and colour that is rare these days, but the vocals are stunning, the playing has a touch we all dream of, and [...]