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All The Wild Young Children

Posted in Music on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I was surprised to discover this video of Sean Tyrrell singing a song I wrote when I was very young.

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The Marrakech Express – bring on the camels

Posted in Books, Music, Travel writing:, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Even writers need a holiday. With a certain regret at leaving a warm keyboard, especially at a time when my US agent is shopping my new novel (hopefully first of a series) ‘Old Habits Die Hard’ and I am getting interest from actors to come on board my proposed TV drama ‘The Forest’, I revisited [...]

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UK Songwriting contest – four songs in semi-final

Posted in Music, tagged , , , , on September 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Out of 6,200 songs entered for 10 categories in the national UK Songwriting Contest; with one final winner and three runners-up in each; four of my songs made the semi-finals and three were commended. Not bad considering I wrote those songs over 20 years ago. I was out by one point for a place in [...]

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The Animals, Maggie Bell, Zoot Money and naked real ale

Posted in Music, tagged , , , , , , , on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I used to be festival goer when festivals were not the vast, heaving mass of chanting bodies they are now. They used to be smaller and more intimate. But last weekend I popped over to the nearby village of Linton where the annual blues festival was taking place over a weekend and listened to the [...]

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Did naked Pierce Brosnan measure up to 007?

Posted in Books, Film/screenwriting, Music, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Sorry for the tease in my last post about the time when I worked with a young Pierce Brosnan on a Celtic rock musical I co-wrote for the Edinburgh Festival. I remember Pierce very well, in fact, I gave him a lift back to London from Edinburgh in my battered van with a goat [...]

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I saw Pierce Brosnan naked

Posted in Film/screenwriting, Music, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »

I went back to Edinburgh with my wife, who hadn’t been in the city since we were involved with a Celtic rock opera at the Fringe many years ago. It’s a beautiful city with normal licensing laws (unlike in the past when you couldn’t get a drink after ten o’clock). I could still remember the [...]

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My album has become a collector’s item

Posted in Music, tagged , , , on July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I was quite amazed when I found out that an album I made in 1972 has become a surprise underground rare hit and been sought after by fans and collectors all over the world. Here’s one site that people are dowloading tracks from http://www.last.fm/music/Callinan-Flynn”
They are calling it folk-psych (whatever that is). A new wave Irish [...]

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Catch a boat to England, baby or maybe to Spain

Posted in Film/screenwriting, Music, Travel writing: on February 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I made my annual pilgrimage to a blues club in the Forest of Dean to bask in the superlative skills of guitar maestro John Renbourne – ex Pentangle – and someone I used to play on the same bill with when I was working in bands many years ago. Of course, John wouldn’t remember me. [...]

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