http://www.davealley.co.nz Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:31:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en twenty ten meanders slow-like now after three months of  varyayshuns... bernie griffin band and broadsides at kings arms last night was pretty darned cool. prior to that a trip manning the sound desk for 'the curls' taking in womad along the way. the jaunt from Karamea to Wanaka, sublime... winter draweth nigh and i imagine a ... http://www.davealley.co.nz/quietly-quietly/ happy new year folks and wow!! what a start to the decade.. it began in the weee small hours of new years day (of course) swingin from rope swing hanging from a pohutukawa tree neath a perfect night sky on Hahei beach after a cool gig at the grange rd ... http://www.davealley.co.nz/2010-the-beginning/ another year drifts well spent on by. distant past it's memories soon to be... wow! what a year!!! thanks,  jon sanders, rod redgrave, al griffith, jono lonie, dave khan, toni geiling, pacific curls, myles o'reilly  & aidan , chris priestly, ben reel, ted & ro, bex, eoin & ilonca, scott O, martin, jerry, steve ... http://www.davealley.co.nz/another-yeah/ A maestro in front of mee taps tinkles types yet again yet another master piece un recognised but for the young unjaded unfaded a terrier cancer ridden soundly sleeps peace is hers.. a museum tells of stars of constellations of millenia passed of Neanderthals of erectus robustus a weiss beer ... http://www.davealley.co.nz/pilsner-weiss-yay/ so after a travel-filled week or so in Ireland & England jonny & i decided our carbon footprint wasn't quite significant enough and decided to visit friends and play a few tunes near Aberdeen... a 5 or so hour drive from Chester, not a problem! after swinging by Rosslyn chapel to ... http://www.davealley.co.nz/scotland/ so having been invited along by Mazey to see the legendary Tommy Emmanuel in concert i was rather expectational sitting there with Craig  on one side & Clare on the other thinkin 'hey this is gonna be summit'... Tommy comes out and flies into an energetic onslaught of notes; rhythmic, melodic, percussive &  intuitive... ... http://www.davealley.co.nz/tommy-emmanuel-concert/ so finally Three Legged Horse have released thier debut album 'Down' with a seriously butt kickin' show on friday night... this is the biggest album project that I've been involved with to date (outside of my own as yet unreleased behemoth) and to see it released is quite a buzz... myself and my trusty toyota ... http://www.davealley.co.nz/three-legged-horse-album-launch/ ...so last night i was fortunate enough to play an absolutely mad gig with three of my favourite side-kicks, rod redgrave, jon sanders & dave khan, for the first time... by that i mean i'd played with all three in duos and other bands before but they had never played with each ... http://www.davealley.co.nz/mad-gig/ ...a mosquito has given me a hiki... i look out over the hokianga harbour. out the back door of my van... i look back over the week and a half that's just been... a week and a half that started a month ago whilst supping coffee with karen, roderick & ... http://www.davealley.co.nz/the-curls/ so the other day an ol' buddy flicks me a facebook message askin if i wants to hit the airwaves on bfm... wot!? of corse thort i and responded accordingly. consequently off i trundled into maddening auckland morning traffic on tursday to join adam on bfm's breakfast show. being a regular b ... http://www.davealley.co.nz/bfm-gbi/