Train going south |
While riding on train going south... The Bad Pennies are all back home, after a long week's travel, hindered by vehicles breaking down, but some great gigs. A different set of songs every night ...
Posted by Jez Lowe on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:40:00 PST |
A Song For Geordie |
We are currently preparing for a set of gigs in the North of England, and into Scotland, that we've labelled A Song For Geordie. I did a series for the BBC under the same title about five years a...
Posted by Jez Lowe on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:38:00 PST |
Cats and dogs |
My friend Bob and I sat last Tuesday night and saw some horrific stuff on the TV news here in the UK. In between the horrors of Iraq and Afganistan, street murders and child abuse, there was an i...
Posted by Jez Lowe on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:59:00 PST |
Almost the end of this tour... |
The last month has seen me in British Columbia, Australia, back to Canada, across America, and now with one more gig to go, in Sacramento tomorrow night, it's time to think of heading back to the UK. ...
Posted by Jez Lowe on Tue, 01 May 2007 03:05:00 PST |
Bass Penny |
There has been a change in line-up in The Bad Pennies, my long-suffering backing band. Sean told us last April that he would have to leave by the end of the year, and he has worked very hard since th...
Posted by Jez Lowe on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:15:00 PST |
A turn up for the tapes |
I was playing a strange gig last week, not a regular sort of place for me, verging on the corporate... played a few songs that I hadn't done for a while, things like San Francisco Bay Blues, Deliah's ...
Posted by Jez Lowe on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:31:00 PST |
Radio Ballads Demos |
We've been putting some demo recordings from the BBC Radio Ballads on the My Space site over the last few months, as a lot of the songs were only used in part in the programmes themselves. I hope you ...
Posted by Jez Lowe on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:00:00 PST |
Visa Las Vegas |
With all our global wanderings finally over for this year, plans are in hand for another jaunt around the world, including gigs in the USA next April. As we do this, news reaches us that some friends ...
Posted by Jez Lowe on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:08:00 PST |
Zummer iz gawn |
I finally made it to a couple of English folk festivals over the last couple of weeks. Firstly, the whole lot of us went down to Swanage in Dorset, easily one of my favourite towns in the UK, where w...
Posted by Jez Lowe on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:53:00 PST |
The man whose name they don't give |
Just before we left Canada, I got news from my friend Ken back in England that John Alderson had died. Both Ken and I, and a lot of kids of our generation, had grown up with John lurking as a kind of...
Posted by Jez Lowe on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:41:00 PST |
