We’ve got a few gigs coming up, sort of a mini tour and our last gigs of the year…

Sat 20th Nov: House gig along with Carrie Tree. See www.wupadupa.com for more details. It starts at around 8pm, is in SW London (zone 6) and if you want to come along then you’ll need to send an email to the Wupadupa crew organising it at …. or just let us know via the contact page.

Sun 21st Nov: Up and Comin’ Variety Show at The Comedy Pub, 7 Oxendon Street in Leicester Sq. Doors at 7pm, starts at 7.30pm, £3 to get in. They have a website at http://upandcomin3.weebly.com/

Fri 26th Nov: Acoustic Haven, Bowden House in Totnes, Devon. A beautiful old house in Totnes run by a group of lovely people. Also playing are Faye Houston and Billy Bottle. Tickets avail in advance from Drift records in Totnes or just turn up on the night but best to reserve tickets if you can in case they sell out.

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So, whilst driving through Cheddar Gorge one of us suggested to stop and do a guerilla gig. A quick park of the car, and a short climb later saw us sitting towards the top of a grass bank, that looked much less steeper from the ground

The view from where we played at Cheddar Gorge

Looking down from our guerilla gig at Cheddar Gorge

We perfomed one song there to a group of ramblers far down below, then moved to a slightly less steep incline to do a few more songs. Twas lovely to be playing outside in the open air again.

A slightly less steep place to perform

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Thank you to all the people who stopped to listen to us at the many guerilla gigs we did around this years End of the Road festival and for all the wonderful feedback we received from people afterwards.

I think my two favourite gigs were on the top deck of the doubledecker bus that served tea and cake and the last gig we did in the woods on Sunday night, to a small crowd of appreciative listeners.

Hopefully we’ll manage to sort things out in time to get to also play on one of the main stages at next years festival.

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Big thanks to Glastonbury Podcasting who recently played a recording of our song “Motorway Song” on the September Edition of their show.

You can find out more about them and listen to the show at www.glastonburypodcasting.com

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Sugardrum - Where once were Roads. Now available on CD.

oooh look… it’s the new Sugardrum EP, now available in CD format as well as a download from iTunes, Amazon mp3 and numerous other online stores. Hurrah!

The CD version will be available to buy at the gig tomorrow in Brighton and at the Small World Festival at the weekend if there are any left by then.

Sugardrum recently had a song played on the Quentin Woolf Arts show… and you can now download the full version of the show, complete with the song, “Where Once were Roads” in the middle of it.

http://www.blog.nquentinwoolf.com/?p=924

Be sure to check out the full show as there’s lots of interesting musical info in there!

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Thank you to all those who came to see me and Matt play at Glastonbury last weekend. I had a great time and ended up doing around 7 gigs altogether, a couple on my own but mostly with the amazing Matt Kelly.

Thank you also to the equally  amazing Matt Tweed who did some great bazouki playing with me at my 4.30am gig on Wednesday night/Thursday morning and did sterling work getting the cafe to keep us fuelled with Brandy Hot Chocolates

sunset... or sunrise... in the Greenfields at Glastonbury 2010

All the free promo CDs went within the first 2 days… must take more next time.

The BBC decided to film me whilst sitting in the permaculture garden in the Greenfields eating my breakfast which was a bit strange. I’m not sure they’ll use the footage as I had a rather puzzled look on my face at the time whilst questioning the vegetarian status of the sausage from said breakfast

For those wondering, it was vegetarian.

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For those going to Glastonbury Festival next week, here the times and places I’ll be performing, all in the Green Futures Field area…

• Wednesday 6pm Tadpole Stage
• Friday 3pm Mandala Stage
• Sunday 6pm Mandala Stage

Although, these may change to the nature of things at a festival.

I’ll also have a free CD to give away with a song from each sugardrum EP, shown below being given the once over by our quality control officer

sugardrum - 3 for free

Yay, the new sugardrum EP, Where Once Were Roads, is now available to purchase and download from itunes and amazon for the bargain price of around £3.

Just follow one of the links below to go to either store.

Buy now on itunes. OR  Buy now on amazon.co.uk

It has the following tracks on it…

1. Bubbleclouds
2. Dancers in a Painting
3. School Friends
4. Where Once Were Roads

Recorded at the Thursday Club, produced by Nigel and Matt and featuring Nigel on vocals, guitar, piano, organ and percussion, Beth on cello, vocals and flute, Sara on percussion and vocals, Danielle on vocals and Matt on bass and tambourine (not bass tambourine, although thinking about it that would be kinda cool if such an instrument existed…).

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