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About Me

Laid back 55 year old hippy - head turned into a solar panel in the 80s! Nick-name Guts - it's a long story!! Like to play guitars - lots of them - Mrs biGGals thinks they take up a lot of room, but she does keep buying them for my birthdays! Looks like I've had too many birthdays then! Although ..... Me & Yosemite met up with Roy Wood a couple of years back in Sound Control in Birmingham and he pointed out that you can NEVER have too many guitars! What a clever chap! Favourite thing to do ..... LIVE music - also Promote gigs with Phiz at THE MADHOUSE, Rosliston, South Derbyshire / North Staffordshire area. Last few gigs - Ariel Thiermann, Kenon Chen, John Lester, Emmett Till Band, Trio Gitano, Amy Wadge, Lisa Fitzgibbon with Jane Griffits & Colin Fletcher, DaisyB, Bernard Hoskin, Chris Tye Band, Waking the Witch, Jon Amor, Jess Gardham, Under the Influence, Boo Hewardine - all these guys need to be seen to be believed - just fantastic talent! Go find them on the net!******************************************************** ****************************DID I MENTION THE NEXT GIG .....Next gig to be announced soonTHE MADHOUSE, Rosliston - Nr Swadlincote / Burton on Trent / Lichfield, Midlands DE12 8JW Cost : Â£ ************************************************************ ******************THE MADHOUSE, Rosliston, South Derbyshire / North Staffordshire area - - Tickets [email protected]
Amy Wadge - Paris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffSsSrMFRdo
Jon Amor - The Devils Back Yard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZ3jwTPeAc
The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNfWC4Sgkcs

My Interests

Listening to music. Gigging - Live music. Promoting live music. Playing guitar(s) - creating something similar to music. My family. Reading. Rugby

I'd like to meet:

Whoever stole my car in 1975 from Dale End multi-storey carpark in Birmingham and then rolled it in Bridgenorth! Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) Artist extraordinaire! And one of the most important musical talents of the 20th century! Tony McPhee - better than Hendrix, alive & over here! Franz Kafka, or Pablo Picasso, or Helen Mirren!!! If not, then Grace Slick would do nicely. Or Frank Zappa, or Michael Hedges. Oh ... & Muddy Waters! Where are they all going?! Or .... I'd just like to meet YOU down the pub .... or better still .... at THE MADHOUSE!! ************************************************************ **DID I MENTION THE NEXT GIG .....Next gig to be announced soonTHE MADHOUSE, Rosliston - Nr Swadlincote / Burton on Trent / Lichfield, Midlands DE12 8JW Cost : Â£ ************************************************************ **THE MADHOUSE, Rosliston, South Derbyshire / North Staffordshire area - - Tickets [email protected]

Music:

Captain Beefheart, Tony (TS) Mcphee, GrounDhogs, Michael Hedges, Devo, Michael Manring, John Martyn, Nick Drake, John Ottway, John Mellencamp, JJ Cale, John Cale, Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, Fleetwood Mac (Early), Duster Bennett - great blues man (RIP), Nickel Creek, Ani diFranco, Beatles, Calexico, Tom Waits, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, Frank Zappa, Santana (early), Howe Gelb, Giant Sand, Amy Wadge, Alice Peacock, Richard Shindell, Dar Williams, Kaki King. Arcade Fire, John Lester, Ariel Thiermann, Kenon Chen, Trio Gitano, Emmitt Till Band, Jim Bryson, Sean Colvin, Victorian Parents, Waking the Witch, DaisyB, Lisa Fitzgibbon, Jane Griifiths & Colin Fletcher, Christene LeDoux - sweet - sweet - SWEET! blah ........ Go find Kurt Swinghammer - brilliant!

Movies:

Alien - great suspense movie. All Quiet on the Western Front - although book's better. The Mission, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Ronin, The Ring (Japanese version), Lord of the Rings trilogy, Woodstock - not for the hippy ramblings, but for the music - Joe Cocker if I had to choose one performance. Whistle down the Wind. Makes my throat hurt! One Flew over the Cookoo's Nest - although the book's better.

Television:

Fields - Charming The Flames
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCNh4bj5Rd0

Books:

Chris Tye Electric tracks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6WTUcSYbxA

Heroes:

My Dad

My Blog

AMY WADGE @ THE MADHOUSE with Jon Amor

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Posted by bIG aL on Sun, 13 May 2007 04:41:00 PST

WAKING THE WITCH & JESS GARDHAM AT THE MADHOUSE

31st March 8.00pm Doors 7.30pm Tickets £8.00 from :- [email protected] WAKING THE WITCH exploded onto the UK acoustic music live circuit in 2004 and no-one really knew quite how to pigeon hole ...
Posted by bIG aL on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:29:00 PST

Lucky 13 Play Willam Allitt

Sophie's a bass player in a band called Lucky 13, which was spawned from her attending Rock School at William Allitt School - a performing arts school. I saw them play on stage for the first time last...
Posted by bIG aL on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:06:00 PST

HEADLINE - Christene LeDoux moves Big Al to post his first ever blog on the internet!!!

Went to see Christene LeDoux on a whim last Thursday at Loughborough Acoustic Club with Yosemite. Great voice - great songs - boy, is this girl great - really nice, happy personality too! She is ...
Posted by bIG aL on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 03:38:00 PST