Hi everyone. I hope you're well. The last song on the album is an old one - Grandma Butterfly. It had to go on the album as she's my strongest connection to Guyana. A slightly different story here - not exactly the background of how I wrote the
I don't know if rambling when writing is right or wrong, but I do know that at night there's a song in your heart, and like it or not, in your bed, a fart. What a way to start! We had a concert today in the
I'm not in the mood for writing really but i rambled for 12 minutes about the last few weeks on tour and a few thoughts here and there with a croaky voice
Today I would like to share the backstory of track 8 from the new album - Riverside to Pray. I'm also going to share another song and three connected stories and I'll just give a warning that I'll be talking about death and the afterlife.
It's just another 23 minute ramble about my first week on tour with Madalitso Band. I enjoy doing the podcast. I hope you enjoy listening...
Hello friends I hope you're well. I'm writing from the airport at Addis Ababa as I head to Europe again to be on tour with Madalitso Band for three months. Leaving my 10-year-old son at the airport was certainly the hardest part. I hope
I decided to go for a solo travel over the long weekend. I took a shared taxi from Lilongwe to Zomba and then on to Phalombe in a 7 seater Sienta with 16 people packed into it...
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Another writing from the vault. Here it's a reflection on funerals in Malawi. I wish I could say there are less these days, but sadly there have been even more since I wrote this. The theme of today's story, let me lay it out at the
So amazing to read this after all these years. It was a blog entry I wrote in 2017 just as my life was about to change is such a way as I had no inkling back then. This journey was the first with Madalitso Band - our first show together. I
A moment from the late part of the tour where I found myself in my Mum's kitchen in Dorset. Shimmers of autumn in the trees. Feeling a little nostalgic. A very reflective moment on destiny and the way things unfold on tour.
Here's a reflection I wrote back in 2022. As I read it now, I'm glad I wrote it, if just for how much it connects to the song 'Indentured Wayfarer' and the album I'm about to release - Songs from Pandama. This little
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It was 21 May 2025, and I was just about to go on tour for three months with Madalitso Band. I decided I wanted to start sharing some thoughts. As the first episode it's very much an overview, but I thought it would be a good one to