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I have set up a website on bandcamp.com where you can listen to, download and buy my songs (set your own price).

Available now is the album by my last band, ‘Say What?’, which can be downloaded as a complete 11-track album or as individual songs.

I will be adding new songs as I complete them.

It’s all original material, sung and written or co-written by me, and the music is a mixture of jazzy soul, funky and Latin influences.

If…

Listen Now! ...new cd ...I'm A Bluesman

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/billyjonesbluez2

"This guy has what it takes ...the music oozes sexuality ...he is totally his own man with a show-stopping style!"…

As you may have already heard in the press, the Bull & Gate pub in Kentish Town in north London has lost its music venue. It's being sold and turned into a restaurant.

Love it or hate it,…

As of Jan.1,2013 we are now Verminlord! Stay tuned for more info and pics/music!

Yep, you heard right, 'the 4th suit' are no more, it has been a blast over the last few years.

Sometimes you have to move on for the sake of creativity and to avoid the descent into stagnation!



I have posted the live recording of our support gig to The Vibrators (way) back in March of this year, enjoy it, though be warned there is the use of a particular choice and some might say offensive word!!!

The gig lasts about 30 minutes!!



The link is below:…

Having just shared a bill with Hard-Fi, Tymon Dogg and one of my teenage heroes, Bobby Valentino, I now find myself on a bill with 'that Francis Wheen off the radio'. What a strange world.



Anyway, just a reminder of a couple of dates, starting this Tuesday:



Tuesday 27th November: Klub Katz N Dogz, The Royal Sovereign, 64 Northwold…

PHD, best known for their 1982 UK #3 megahit, "I Won't Let You Down", will be playing at 606 Club in Chelsea this Monday 29 October. The band were also big on MTV with the video of their song, "Little Suzi's on the Up" which received heavy rotation and was one of the…

I have been advertising for some time in my locality for musicians to collaborate with, and nearly always get asked how old I am?...hhhmm bad move apparently, in particular saying more recently that I was 102 years old in this particular incarnation, which evidently aint entirely true...but one becomes a little flippant when faced with such a loaded question! It would seem that ageing female vocalists are not very popular in Bristol at least, once I stated my age, I rarely heard back, which…

The old line-up just ran out of steam, but Duncan Wallis (vocals/ guitar) and Mark Deacon (bass) couldn't leave the Moths music alone, and thankfully, now they are back.

They have a new drummer in Geoff Pearce, and some new material which they plan to record very soon. The new material and band sound has a jazzier feel than before, but it still carries the punchy old three piece sound that those familiar…

The founding members of Kent-based 80s heavy rock band Sacrilege are back writing and playing again with three new band members. In the 80s, Sacrilege played the old Marquee Club in Wardour St. in London, and appeared on the David Jensen Show along with likes of U2 and the Stranglers.

The band have just announced that they are playing their first gig in 25 years at the Red Lion in…

Dear friends,

As the nights are starting to draw in I thought I'd send out a quick missive with some info of what your favourite song and dance man THE LONE GROOVER, is up to over the next few months. It'd be great if you could make one or two. As ever, I'll be near the bar.

Sept 24th - The Unity Folk Club at the Torriano, Kentish Town,…

These are the upcoming dates for September at the moment:

Friday 21st September: Waltham Forest Social Club (in the Walthamstow Town Hall…

I've been nearly completely inactive in my social networks since mid-July or so. Not that I wouldn't have liked to participate, but I have been engrossed in the redaction of the above essay.

When I tackled the project, I thought it would take a few weeks at most, and that I would be able…

(« Confrontation » by cordalth)

« Polygraph » is intended as a portrait of human relationships turning to the sour, hinting at the necessity of constant kindness and genuineness. The suite lasts about ten minutes and is composed of the following four sections : « Exposition, » «…

(« Multiac Nylon » by poligraf)

« Sooner Or Later » does not comes from Poligraf's catalogue as such. Rather, it is a piece for solo guitar that I intend to publish on an album of about…

(« Morpho emerging from its chrysalis » by Thomas Bresson)

That which you can't abide

Embrace as if a friend

Once you two have allied

No thing will make you bend



That which you can't escape

Welcome as a teacher

You will never espouse

More talented…

Richard Ramsay is the star of the eighteenth episode of The Threshold Series, the concluding chapter of « 2206 : Window Onto A New World. »

We find the veteran politician staring outwards from a window of the sky lounge of his private yacht, musing about the weather, while on a visit…

(« The Miraculous Draft of Fishes » - Artist Unknown - photography by TTaylor)

« Asking For A Miracle » is a short instrumental arranged for acoustic instruments, and written in a time of…

What is 'Ageism'? Recently I had a reply to one of the intermittant adds I place on Gumtree, where in my middle-aged angst I still search for the John to my Paul. A man rang and sounded perfect. I mentioned ,rather guiltily, that I was in my early fifties', he replied airily, "oh that's fine, I'm seventy".  Seventy! I instantly recoiled from that staggering fact, rather like a seventeen year old, I presume, would recoil from me. Why? The generation that bore us, Oh my Brothers and Sisters,…