Here’s a fun cover of the classic Paint It Black in a bluegrass style from Sid Griffin’s The Coal Porters…

https://youtu.be/w9TnyotblDM

Sid will be our guest at #thedefiningten at the Cellar Arts Club on Thursday 26th January discussing the 10 songs that have made him who he is followed by a special acoustic performance.

Tickets are available now over at www.musicsaves.co.uk

It’s that time of year when people have hopes, expectations and plans for the year ahead…so here’s the fabulous Long Ryders with their song I Had A Dream…

https://youtu.be/MJOs54E9hZ4

Tickets are still available for our #thedefiningten event with Sid Griffin on 26th January in #worthing over at https://musicsaves.co.uk/product/the-defining-ten-with-sid-griffin/

#americana #paisleyunderground #country #bluegrass #thecoalporters #thelongryders

Ho ho ho! Ahead of our #thedefiningten event in January #SidGriffin is getting all festive 🙂 And also to get you in the mood here’s the Long Ryder’s long distance relationship Christmas track “Christmas In New Zealand”, a favourite of John Peel who played it every Christmas!

https://youtu.be/-C18iyHd5Dw

And a reminder tickets for #thedefiningten event on the 26th January at the Cellar Arts Club in #Worthing (which make a lovely Christmas gift 😉 ) are available now over at www.musicsaves.co.uk!

Asked these people to spread the word about our next #thedefiningten event, instead they’ve decided to tell the artist about the event instead (if they see him) Tch, can’t get the staff etc…

Anyway, announcement and on sale THIS FRIDAY for our Thursday 26th January event at the @cellarartsclub in #worthing

Our #2022 year in review…and what a year! When I started #thedefiningten night I gave myself a personal challenge of doing 6 events in the format to give it chance to bed down and see how people responded to it. I’m so pleased to see the response from the audience and especially the artists who have enjoyed themselves so much. We’ve heard some amazing stories, listened to some fabulous songs we knew and didn’t know, watched some amazing stripped back performances and danced to some glorious DJ sets.

I’ve built up a lovely core audience of regulars who seem to come to it regardless of the artist because they enjoy the night so much which was always something I had hoped would happen.

We’ve also planted 165 trees as a result of the events which I know is small fry in the scheme of things but which means a lot to me.

Thanks to the amazing artists for coming to #worthing and sharing everything with us.

Thanks to all at the Cellar Arts Club for giving me a chance to do the night and then embracing what I’m doing.

Thanks to those regulars (you know who you are 😉)

Thanks to my friends Jim and Sara for spinning the songs and having my back on the night.

Thanks to the lovely Ed Kilroy at Coastal Events for all his priceless advice and encouragement as I got the night off of the ground.

And thanks to my lovely wife Minda and my family for supporting me with my next hair brained plan 🙂

(Although sadly the Tom Hingley event didn’t happen, it’s all been part of my learning curve this year…so included as a what could have been as much as a what I learnt from it…)

And maybe I make this an issue by mentioning it (and before someone highlights this and says “THIS IS WHATS WRONG WITH THE MUSIC INDUSTRY”) I’m fully aware this line up is 100% testosterone which was never my intention, I had always hoped it would be an even split between male and female guests, but the sad reality is that due to various reasons, be they logistics, unavailable, unwilling, unresponsive to requests I haven’t managed to bring a female guest down yet. Hoping 2023 changes that.

Our next #thedefiningten event is on Thursday 26th January and hopefully announcing end of next week - “cryptic” clue roll out to start soon!