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  • 16 Tambourines: All Men Are Fools Single Release

    We’ve made the title track of the album available as a single and made a video for it. It’s available as a free download at Bandcamp here, until 9th December when the album is released. Head over there for your copy now. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Here’s the video

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  • All Men Are Fools

    I hope all is well with you and yours, I have some madly exciting news, that you might well guess from the headline. I’m really happy to announce that 16 Tambourines are releasing a second album, ALL MEN ARE FOOLS, on 9th December 2022, via 9×9 Records. It will be available in Vinyl, CD and streaming formats. The vinyl…

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  • Dirk Wears White Socks

    I’ve been looking at the stats for the number of plays my music gets on Spotify, and I don’t get loads. It’s in the thousands rather than tens of thousands, but that’s ok, it’s still interesting. Who would know there are people in Finland or Brazil who, on quite a regular basis, choose to open…

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  • Sunday 14th November 2021 gig in Glossop

    I’m playing at Harvey Leonard’s in Glossop. It’s free entry and the venue is directly opposite the train station. Great little line up. 2-5 14/11/21

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  • Livestream New Years Eve 31/12/20 7pm

    In a fit of desperation/defiance/delusion, I’ve decided to say good riddance to 2020 by playing an hour or so of songs from 7pm NYE over on my Facebook page. If you fancy joining me please do and follow this link. I hope you have a happy and healthy 2021, it’s something we all deserve.

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  • 16 Tambourines New Recording

    Just as it looked like I hadn’t done anything for months, along comes news of another recording and it’s also about England but this is the first one I wrote, 30 years ago, with England in the title – indeed, as it’s title. 16 Tambourines had been hoping to play some gigs and do some…

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  • The Legend of England

    A couple of years ago I thought it might be interesting to record an album of songs themed around England and Englishness and I set to writing, researching and staring into the distance. After I had 5 or 6 songs I realised, unhappily, that I wasn’t enjoying it; the disconnect between me and the country…

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  • Life of Books Radio Premiere

    The Life of Books receives its premiere on Radio Free Matlock on Sunday 14th June 2020. It’s been a long haul but it’s finally done and dusted and ready for you to hear and I hope enjoy. To listen go to www.radiofreematlock.co.uk or add it to your Alexa device or search on your internet radio.…

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  • Free Isolation Album

    I recorded a new song We Will Go dancing Again (see video on previous post) and a number of cover versions during those heady early lockdown days and I’ve now made it available as a free download on my Bandcamp site. Feel free to grab them and share widely. Strange days and as a lefty,…

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  • We Will Go Dancing Again

    A ‘lockdown’ song. I read a tweet where someone wrote, almost sighed, ‘will we ever go dancing again?’ That set me off and I wrote this, changed the key and recorded it as is. I’m pondering doing a fuller version as, simple though it is, I quite like it. I haven’t been writing other than…

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