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 stresses endured by he...

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 for Music at the Po...

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. More photos of me ...

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 some of it soon so sta...

September seems to have crashed October which is already nearly November. Tinsel festoons the local garden centre and I'm doing my best not to notice. I'm n...

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 organise the family so...

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, updates as usual fr...

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 we are and it's near...

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 both rare and conveni...

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. Simple and obvious ...

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 can't ask for more. I...

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 generate a sales pitch from...

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 what I mean, anyway ...

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 radio script that the ...

Jules Charlie’s unquestioning belief in his pop star potential was never dented by the eternally silent response from record companies. His campaign of demo-...

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 about people. We te...

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. Not that there ever w...

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

I’m standing on the terrace of this fabulous house overlooking the ocean, the sun sinking into the blue horizon on a perfect Spring evening. I’m playing my g...