Live streaming on Facebook is quite the thing these days. I've been ignoring it as vigorously as I can but it seems there's no avoiding i...

About a year ago I met a lovely guy called Stuart Brayson. He approached me to record some songs for his new musical theatre project one ...

I've blogged about this before but my mate Peter Buckle wrote a song lyric a couple of years ago called How Strong which was about the st...

As you may have noticed the world has more or less abandoned business as usual and live gigs in particular. We've cancelled all our dates...

It's worth mentioning the glorious paparazzi who turn up at gigs and blast away with their cameras for little or no recognition or reward...

I guess this is more or less it for 2019. Lots of fun gigs, lots of writing with lots of different people. I'm going to have to record so...

September seems to have crashed October which is already nearly November. Tinsel festoons the local garden centre and I'm doing my best ...

As you'll have gathered I do one or maybe two gigs a week on average. Not too strenuous and happily within the tolerance of those who or...

I'm enjoying gigs with the trio. I've been trying to think of a name; JC and The Sunshine Band? Maybe not. Coming up Here's the snapshot,...

I don't know what happened to July, it just seemed to whizz right by. I'm sure there was something I should have told you about but here w...

About 90% of my gigs are solo so an opportunity to get the whole band together is a rare and beautiful thing. Two in the same month is b...

I've just stepped out of my tiny studio after several hours trying to decide on one chord. Major or relative minor; that is the question....

Thank you to everyone who showed up at the book launch events. Wine was consumed, nibbles were nibbled and all the books were sold! You c...

I'm rubbish at self promotion. It's not humility, it's laziness. I've messed around with Facebook but whatever I do only seems to generat...

Reading out loud is not as easy as it sounds. My lovely publisher has indicated, more than indicated really, if you know her you’ll know w...

Once upon a long time ago I wrote a novel. It started as a rant about the state of the music business and sort of grew. It grew into a ra...

Jules Charlie’s unquestioning belief in his pop star potential was never dented by the eternally silent response from record companies. H...

A few years ago I wrote this song with my good friend Gavin Thomas. We were trying to capture what's best about Christmas and what's best...

I love co-writing songs. This is new for me, for most of my life I was that lonely geezer writing sad songs in an attic by candle light. ...

Guildford has an incredibly vibrant contemporary music culture. I'm not talking about the touring bands that drop in at G-Live but the mu...