On Tuesday I had the joy of being filmed and interviewed on my boat for a documentary about gentrification by French-German cultural TV channel ARTE.
They had stumbled across my Hackney Gentrification Song and wanted to find out the story.
songs from the shed
Whilst down in Somerset, Basia, Candy, Caitlin and I popped by to visit Jon, AKA Songs From The Shed (http://www.songsfromtheshed.com/)
He has had all manner of brilliant musicians come and perform for him over the years – do check out his site or youtube channel to see more.
Here is our performance of ‘The Finchley Waltz’ – enjoy…
mariam’s cake video production stills
A few shots of Ronnie Le Drew, Lucy Pawlak and Mike, taken by Basia Bartz on my boat during the film shoot for the forthcoming Mariam’s Cake music video.
photo taken at the russet, amhurst terrace
The Russet is a wonderful new restaurant/cafe/venue on the edge of Hackney Downs run by the brilliant Steve Wilson, the man behind the People’s Kitchen at Passing Cloud.
I will be singing a few songs at the launch party sometime in February. As you can see from the photo below, it is a lovely space.
Photo taken by Basia Bartz
RHS harvest festival
We had a lovely show last wednesday at the RHS Harvest Festival surrounded by some of the largest and most impressive fruit and veg I have ever seen.
To the left of me above is Caitlin my new accordion player, on the right is Basia and then Helen Babbs with a copy of her delighful book ‘My Garden, The City and Me‘ which I have read and love. Find out more about it here – http://helenbabbs.wordpress.com/book/
edinburgh fringe festival adventures
Wow – an epic week up at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in which Basia, Jane and I managed to clock up over twelve shows in a week!
Click on the above image to hear us play ‘The Suitors Ballyhoo’ on the last Pleasance podcast of the festival.
Highlights included an amazing show at the last Golden Hour for The Forest Cafe and a lovely moment when we got to serenade a group of Maths academics in The Pleasance Courtyard who got another group of friends to watch us play via skype on their laptop.
Podcast recording and filming … L-R: Paul on camera, Robin on guitar, Basia on violin, Jane on accordion and Al on microphones.
A slightly tired Basia and Jane having a nap on the train heading north to Edinburgh.