Live Adventurously: the noble Crow has been observing our behaviour for millenia. It is the conscience of humanity
James Patterson, Paul Carbuncle, me and Earthwoven
3 Sept 2025: Botheration @ Duffys Bar, Leicester:
Sheila Mosley… i like a huge range of music but my first loves remain folk music and the 1960’s greenwich village troubadour tradition… and Sheila sits perfectly into this area… beautiful voice and singer Sheila delivers a range of songs from those genres, ranging form the strongly political social comment… especially her rivetting performance of Peggy Seeger’s defence after an incident at Greenham Common… and the more gentle love songs and ballads. A lovely mix of high class mainly familiar material and as she did last sunday, had me groping for a tissue with her closing “Another Train”… a song that means so much…
Sheila is a no frills just top quality great performer.. totally committed and sincere in every aspect… if you dont know her work go see her when you can… superb!!
This is the first Leicester-based folk festival in years, and it is due to the energy (and bravery) of Missouri Mick, who started the Common Folk at The Regent.
Details of the festival are here: https://commonfolk.uk/common-folk-festival/
Far from the sea but resolute in our determination to make the most of singing shanties and sea songs 🙂 and have fun while we do it.
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Please excuse the self indulgence but I’ve not had a month like this one, and want to record it somewhere. I’ve had lots of fun. Many many thanks to those who make live music happen.
This month started with playing two sets each day as part of the Melton Mowbray Folk Festival on the first weekend of August.
6 August, I sang at the Hiroshima memorial event organised by CND at the Peace Tree in Victoria Park, Leicester
We went to the Saltburn Folk Festival weekend 8-10 August 2025, and joined the amazing singarounds.
15 – 17 August 2025: on the Friday I opened the festival on the Neil Dawson stage of the MoiraFurnace Folk Festival, which was amazing.
Continue reading “August 2025 has been an amazing month for me”On 19 March 2023 there was a service at Oadby Trinity Methodist Church to mark the occasion. Dad was invited to speak, and the following was filmed by my sister. He has given his permission for it to be out in the public arena.
This is what he said:
Dad’s talk has been put together with some additional content, and can be read/downloaded here which may be helpful for those who find it difficult to hear the video:
Continue reading “My Dad – 75 years a Methodist Minister”Stop the removals – see the post on the StatusNow4All website: https://statusnow4all.org/deportation-in-this-cruel-hostile-environment/:
StatusNow4All: This cruel hostile environment has given rise to yet another Home Office plan to deport people to Zimbabwe on 2 March 2022. StatusNow4All abhors this decision made in the name of the Home Secretary, Priti Patel.
IT IS IMMORAL:
These are just some of the factors of note in relation to those who are being rounded up for deportation right now:
· Some have been here a long time, as many as twenty years;
· Some will have had Refugee Leave, such was the compelling case they presented on arrival in UK, but the law allows the Home Office to strip them of this due to a conviction for particular offending behaviours [para 339 Immigration Rules].
Continue reading “Deportation in this cruel hostile environment”