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About Me

Flits between playing in Circulus [Medieval Psychedelic Pixie-Rock], Princes in the Tower and Tunkul [Aztec band] and Classical gigs; teaches instruments.Forthcoming gigs: Wednesday 11th. July: playing with Alquimia [see her Myspace] at The Easycome Acoustic Club, The Old nun's Head, Nunhead Green, Nunhead Lane, Nunhead; from 9pm.Thursday 12th. July: promoting a concert by Duo Trobairitz - Soprano accompanied by Vielle - who will perform Medieval songs of love and Spring in The lovekyn Chapel, london Road [opposite kingston Grammar School], Kingston at 7.45pm. See kac.org.uk for more details [or contact me].Friday 13th. July: playing with Circulus@Lounge on the Farm Festival in Canterbury [see Circulus' Myspace]; Saturday 14th. July: Circulus play at The Larmer Tree festiva, near Shaftesbury; Sunday 15th. July, between 1 and 5: Princes in the Tower play in Eden Walk, Kingston.Saturday 21st. July: playing Renaissance and Baroque music in Nanclars Church, Charente, France.Friday 27th. July: Circulus play Somewhere Near Mosely! 28th. - 29th.: Princes in The Tower play in the Secret Garden Festival, Somewhere Near Cambridge!Monday 6th. August, 7.30pm: I play with Alquimia in the Dead or Alive session, Queen's Head pub, Essex Road, Islington.Friday 10th. August: Circulus play in Inverness.Saturday 11th.: I and some of Circulus play in the Tapestry Goes West Summer Festival ['Rock and Recreation'!].Saturday 25th. August: I play Something Orchestral By Vivaldi in Suffolk.Friday 7th. September: Circulus play in the Spitz.Wednesday 19th. September, The nun's Head pub, Nunhead Green, Nunhead Lane, nunhead: Alquimia in residence at The Easycome Club.Sunday 14th. October, 6pm: the Kingston Early Music festival combines with the choir of All Saints' Church, Kingston Marketplace, to provide choral and instrumental music by Byrd, Weelkes and Gibbons as part of Evensong.Wednesday 17th. October: Alquimia in residence at The Easycome.Saturday 20th. October: Circulus plays at a Witchfest held in the Queen Mary College, Mile End.Thursday 22nd. November, 7.30pm: The Kingston Early Music Festival presents consort songs and theatre music from the Elizabethan era, performed with a 'broken consort' [mixture of instruments] in All Saints' Church, kingston Marketplace.Saturday 8th. December: Linden Baroque Orchestra perform bach's B minor Mass.

My Interests

Music; fiction; poetry; current affairs; cycling; indeterminate quantities; French; Mexico; ass-coveting;

I'd like to meet:

A large red object on the end of a stick. Alternatively, something green - open to offers; friends; people; animals and other existential entities.

Music:

Early: Bach, Handel, Purcell, Byrd, Couperin, Victoria, Dowland and loads more. Later: Britten, MacMillan, Adams, M. Summers; Aztec;

Movies:

Last Orders

Television:

Needs fixing.

Books:

'Last Orders' by Graham Swift; 'Foucault's Pendulum' by Umberto Eco; 'War Music' series by Christopher Logue [poetry]; 'The Warden' by Anthony Trollope; 'Under Western Eyes' by Conrad; various by Hesse, Camus, Sinclair, Ackroyd; 'Saturday' by Ian McEwan; 'The Sea of Faith' by Don Cupitt; 'Birdsong' by Faulks; Shakespeare; poetry from Elizabethan/Jacobean times, contemporaries of Pope and of my late grandfather Hal;

Heroes:

David Munrow; Nelson Mandela; Daniel Barenboim; Tony Benn; Jesus and most of the major prophets, a few of the minor ones as well, some of the middling sort can be pretty good at times; Tony Benn again; Peter Benenson - founder of Amnesty International; Malvolio;

My Blog

See-see, see-saw on the Lea Shores.

From metalling in Cardiff and Camden to Bach on a boat and ostentatious hat wearing...life coundn't be more fun if I weren't broke!First, I played a crumhorn at Richard of the See-Sees - named after s...
Posted by Will on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:05:00 PST

Bach to the future.

Just got back from gigging in France, gagging at a begorrah band, goggling at Scottish Baroque freeform [fast tempo], glugging the local wine and guaging the prospects of doing it all again!My French ...
Posted by Will on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:59:00 PST

Baroquery and Alquemy.

The Alquimia set in the Easycome Acoustic Club's new venue - The Old Nun's Head, Nunhead Green, Nunhead Lane, Nunhead, NunNuffinkNomoreNo-oneNot... - will be startlingly well-prepared in comparison wi...
Posted by Will on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:19:00 PST

Too early for mud.

Circulus brought back the mud and a little of the spirit of Glastonbury: no pitch invasions, but our plan to cover the tuning-versus-momentum dilemma by enforced levitation through staring obviously w...
Posted by Will on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:43:00 PST

Gnomes in the garden,

Far more ancient that The Who and Pretty Things, the relics of 70's psychedelia Circulus play tonight in the backstreets of Lambeth, peeping through into the pub where the grown-ups cuddle up to Russi...
Posted by Will on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:32:00 PST

From Mudchute to Mudfest.

Having returned from this year's Rain Capital - Leek, in the Midlands - where the combination of vegetables, water seepage and small cildren pointing at us was only marginally more disconcerting than ...
Posted by Will on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:56:00 PST

Mud, music and the Bush.

Just as the rain falls, the mud rises and camping begins to seem like a really bad idea, Mike and Will pick up their tents and head for the Midlands!Tomorrow [Saturday 16th.] we play in Leek 800: a fe...
Posted by Will on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:45:00 PST