Margriet and I spent the evening trawling the Edinburgh Fringe website for Venues where our music might find an appreciative, listening audience. Sent an email to the programmer for one venue. Watch this space …
Video: “Weather well”
The environment, climate and weather inevitably have an impact on us on us all. We need each another to “weather well”.
Video: “Time out”
Inspired by a newspaper article about young men caught up in conspiracy theories and the like. From the girlfriend’s perspective.
Video: “Poor world”
This song was inspired by a photographic project with nomadic tribes. As their world gets smaller and smaller, the knowledge of how to survive often challenging terrain, passed down from generation to generation, is getting lost, making us all poorer as a result.
Video: “I met the dragon”
About my music teacher at a convent school. She was one of the nuns and the pupils had given her the nickname, “The Dragon”. She had a fierceness about her that warned everyone to keep their distance. Scary stuff. I think she was very unhappy, and not in her element teaching kids. Many years later, when I was inspired to write a song with dragon in the title, she came to mind.
At the Taxi Road Rally 2015 in LA
This is us at the head of the queue for the open mic at the Taxi Road Rally in Los Angeles on Saturday, 7 November 2015. Later that evening Jack performed a ukulele solo, Al a guitar solo with effects, Laura a song with piano accompaniment, and Margriet and I sang “This is for you”, with ukulele, recorder and vocals.
Rotown Open Mic – Wednesday, 8 July
We’ll be performing at the Rotown open mic on Wednesday, 8 July.
A follow-up to our appearance at the very first Rotown open mic at the end of May.
What a privilege!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1050221854991045/
Double concert with TeeBee Brown (30 May)
Two Doors Down will be performing in a joint concert at Werklicht in Rotterdam on Saturday 30 May.
Come and hear the guys from TeeBee Brown bring something extra to 3 of our standards (Weather well, I met the dragon and Mr Spitz), spicing up our set.
For our part, we’ll be adding sweet harmonies to a few of their standards too. For more info: https://www.facebook.com/Werklicht#!/events/786354778108056/
Ra-ra for Rotown’s new open mic
Margriet and I performed at Rotown’s first open mic last night. Thanks to an enthusiastic public, a good time was had by all. Hopefully this is the first of many more open mics in Rotown and elsewhere in the city. Rotterdam certainly deserves more live music opportunities for those just starting out, or looking for a venue to try out new material.
A special Ra-Ra for the sound guy, an essential part of the success of the evening.
Performing in the Fairest Cape and beyond
Margriet and I spent a week together in Cape Town in April, and took the opportunity to give some concerts, one in a nursing home in Hermanus where friends of mine live, and one in a guesthouse in Kommetjie. I also sang in Huis der Nederlanden in Pinelands, in St Barnabas Tamboerskloof and at a friend’s home in Plumstead. Margriet for her part sang with two groups of primary school children during her stay in Morija, Lesotho.
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