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I'm not moving the wrestling

Welcome to my blog. It is I guess, a memoir of sorts, notes from a life at the bottom of the musicians food chain. Most of my life I've been an amateur musician, by which I mean I've had a day job, and I've never made enough money from music to live on. I've barely made enough to starve on. Life at the top of course, is well documented, there are any number of biographies and autobiographies of the famous and the successful, sometimes well written and interesting, sometimes not. (Mainly not). This is the inverse. The butter side down if you will. Some names have been changed, locations disguised and I hope my friends, acquaintances, fellow semi-pros won't take umbrage. if you are offended then let me apologise in advance you po-faced humourless bastard. (No offence). And why on earth "I'm not moving the wrestling"? well, no doubt that will emerge eventually. As this blog is vaguely, and I do mean vaguely chronological, it helps to start on Blog 1. Other unrelated jottings are to be found on a different page, called, cleverly, 'unrelated jottings'.

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Blog 2 The wasp

It is 2002, or thereabouts, and The Hearts are grooving nicely thank you very much. The Watson (Frontman, great guitar player) has just...

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Some footage

The Cheating Hearts. Somewhere in Burnley, a regular, kind of quarterly gig, Sunday afternoons, which is a civilised time to play. here are plenty of videos to be found of myself and the Cheating Hearts on Youtube, should you be desperate for something to do. In which case, of course, you have my heartfelt sympathy.

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Some video links. See the groovy Cheating Hearts in action. As you can tell we take a pride in our appearance. The hall mark of the professional class. we mange this by abstemiousness, dedication and a punishing moisturising regime. Our bodies are our temples, although admittedly ancient ruined ones. Also some of my songs, which ocassionally get shoed in by the simple resort of telling the band they are someone else's. It took ten years for a disgruntled James to discover one of our set openers was actually written by myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKxFDGNx7f0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w91CyNK8VpU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_3IxsLnGaA

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