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Oh yes I am. BJ Cole just called and he has done my music and might send it tomorrow before he goes to Ireland.

Ah- turn on your radio, Gina Birch has just called and she's on Radio 4 Woman's Hour this morning talking about the punky time... I ...

I got up at 5.30 a.m on Saturday to go to Paris by Eurostar. Up the Sacre Coeur by funicular, photographing the graveyard with all its littl...

Yesterday evening I interviewed Ari in the 12 Bar. What a firework! She absolutely fizzes with energy and she got very angry with stuff that...

Well I was in the studio last night (cool baby, huh?) and finished mixing a track called Colour My Day which I'll upload on to Myspace i...

This joke will make a horse laugh, but nobody else. Try it! Q: What do you call a pony's toenail? A: A poenail!

Woke up this morning and it seemed as though all the bones had left my body and gone on holiday without me. A body without bones is very com...

Had a good rehearsal last night for our gig at the Harrison Bar tomorrow. Lots of blowing and yelling. We are doing Britannia Great, Temptat...

This old interview made me laugh, and gives a clue as to why we never got famous! http://www.noclass.co.uk/Chefs.html

It has been interesting. I am writing a book called The Lost Women of Rock, about female players of rock instruments in the late 1970s and e...

What do you call a stampede of pigs? A hampede. and What do you call a cat that kills loads of birds? A burderer.

We're playing a shortish set at Songbird, onstage at 10.30. Coma along early to see some great poets and singers, in a really good venue...

We are going to start Song Club again in March. Me and my songwriting friend Dan work with children in a tiny school in Barnet on Wednesday...

Yesterday I met Johny Brown who used to be in the Band of Holy Joy. He comes from the north-east too and we are going to write a duet about...

Last night I went to the Resonance Benefit at the Conway Hall- there were some great DJs and I took the opportunity to dance myself stupid. ...