From recording to rehearsals!

Stinky and me at Rickety Wireless towers.

With some two hour shows coming up in Easter with both my original band The Blue Yellows and cover-pop trio Rickety Wireless, it's been time to get down to some serious rehearsals. In fact, with the BYs, we've been so pre-occupied with arranging and recording two new songs (see recent posts) that we were a bit 'all over the place' when rehearsing a new, long set for coming show, but we'll get there!

Doggie Day Afternoon!

All sorts of fun going on, with pooches as the main stars of course.
Photo by Tim Lee.

I was delighted to be guest of the lovely people at Redshift Radio to play at definitely cutest gig I've done so far, at the annual Doggie Day Out! 

I failed to win in any of the categories, not even best behaved boy, scruffiest animal (I was robbed) or best biscuit catcher, but had a good time nonetheless.

Other music on hand came from the super-songwriting talent of Tim Lee, and the gorgeous voice of Lucy Ollier, do make sure you check their music out wherever you can.

Thanks to Paul, Liz and most of all Redshift-Pooch Jasper plus it was great to get some audience reaction from one of the cutest dogs there, Wilson (Tim's owner).

Thanks to @RedShiftRadioUK for inviting me to play at their 'Doggy Day Out' event. I had a really fun day! pic.twitter.com/OmDWSV785d

— Tim Lee - Songwriter (@timleesongs) May 22, 2016

Enjoyed @RedShiftRadioUK's #DoggieDayOut Top music @timleesongs & @OllierrrLucyyy & cute pooches everywhere! More at https://t.co/fNGJMR6Prl

— Jonathan Tarplee (@JonnieGitAhhr) May 22, 2016

Spring/Summer live dates confirmed so far (& more to come)...

The Easter Weekend Nantwich Jazz Festival alone will be pretty full-on!