another yeah…

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 bro, kila, roger & hilary, seldom sober co, ian simpson, gina, bede & carp, mark & kelly, the beattie family, brodie, the robertson family, dave smith, mazey, bluekeys, rick & dori, todd & pip (all the best!), caley, cat tunks, wazza, ben, robbie, gordy, the rest of my friends and family (and many others) for makin’ it a year well worth remembering for i…

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pilsner… weiss… yay!!!

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 blends but for a want of word to a pilsner compose my friend compose for if we don?t who knows who knows? Charicitures mature to become they what they were? spent wee time at the hoose of me brother in far north land we visited maeve she neath her grave piled stones stacked high bove the mountain standing still thru the years unturned?. Spent we then times with ted and his lady magic south coast feast we feast with food divine she shows us ?moungst the vines the garden herbs abound the trees birds cries resound create create

sailed we ?way with the wind to the north west we sangd for the folks of the bluzone a wine place a pizza good patrick arm twisted and gathered the gifted unrifted divine sang we deep to the night good martin doth join us a rhythm entwined back beat 6 on four four on floor I implore explore explore godd bye say we next day limerick heads our way an the night is so wayward it blends night with day? I meet with the blackberry bush close up an personal she digs at mein arms and leaves tracks I?d not asked her to? to Dublin we traipse a town old and derived black pool that once was has dried up it?s demise still they sing of the days of the town they once knew and we roll out a camra and bring on something new with some friends who are blessed and give blessings to wonderers through? we meet with ryan air having not slept not a wink we head off to germany giving not a think.. our maestro friend meets us sausages in mind thanks I say true I?m not the sausage eating kind we amble in mazda down autobahn long the hatch back tried cutting it but is left far behind? we get there in time for time is our friend we settle un ruffled we sleep sleep sincere? show us round this dist place where the language is strange where the girls look amazing where the bicycles range? we play for the children we play for the fair we play for the folks who come listen to hear? we wonder the streets the cafes and eateries the world is laid bare at our feet not discreet here we vague unexplained give our all in the name…

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England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and so forth..

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 see if Tom and/or Jesus were kicking around we headed up to Inverurie… Read more

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Tommy Emmanuel concert…

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… by the third bar of the song i realised the dude had played more notes, more cunningly and skillfully?than i usually play in the course of one whole week.. by the 5th bar i was in a blissful state of overload.. the complete mastery of his playing through out the course of the evening was interspersed with moments of pure?magic where his adept skill and musicality would combine to gift us with extended split seconds of something from somewhere else… thanks Tommy.. thanks Mazey for the invite…

?the months that have flown by since last i wrote have been of a haphazard nature… trials tribulations… the odd occasion of musical majestic mayhem.?two recent shows spring to mind as having been of note.. One was the finale of the ‘tour de Franklin’. the show at Harrington theatre Pukekohe?featured, Earthworkz, Flow, Niall Martin and myself with my merry bunch of sidekicks aka the Dave Alley Band. a ball was had by all and the ‘all on-stage’ finale of the evening was something special… yeeehaaa could be some footage coming to a website near you soon… The other show of particular note for i was a recent gig with the ‘the blue Mullets’ at the dogs bollix.. ‘the blue mullets’ is what happens when jono can’t make a mulleteer gig and we ring in blues/rock guitarist Warren Mendonsa to fill in (we also play as a designated blues band on occasion).. seeing as a local tekkie Arjan had just repaired my trusty ‘fender lead three’?guitar i had a ball jammin with the guys (and Lorina Harding made an appearance on vocals?too). keep your eys peeled those of you in Europe as a wee trip over your way is in the pipeline… onwards!

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