Happy new year! So far, in the early weeks of 2025, I‘ve:
- Played a live solo acoustic set, at the Wairarapa Songwriters’ Group night at Carterton Club on 11 January.
The Troubled Times
- held our first two first recording sessions for the year:
- on 20th of January, an instrument-swapped session with Dave on guitar and Antony on bass this time:
- and on 26 January – music video by Antony Milton below, for a forthcoming album:
Adieu to Tweedside.
- Recorded a new version for Poems & Lyrics by John Collie (1856). It includes acoustic bass and classical guitar. It’s set to the traditional Scottish tune ‘Skye Boat Song’, and starts with almost a doo-wop feel – before taking a darker turn, as the theme of bereavement is revealed:
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