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Belfast Nashville Festival March 10th 2019

Band performance to launch the brand new album “HANK” as part of the Belfast Nashville festival. Show starts really early. Doors are at 5.30pm   For tickets please click here https://panarts.charitycheckout.co.uk/purchase#!/   What the critics are saying about “Hank” ‘Imagine what Elvis, Scotty and Bill would have sounded like playing Hank Williams songs at Sun in […]

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Groucho’s On the Hill Thursday January 10th 2019

Solo performance in this wonderfully intimate venue where you can order fabulous food (We know because we tried it) before the show and then relax in the relaxing atmosphere of the venue upstairs. Last time Brian played here it sold out in days so please buy your tickets early here info@grouchosonthesquare.com or call 07926552869 See you there!!!

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Everything is a blessing.

My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. It was the maximum aggressiveness and three inches in size. It was a big scary tumour that threatened to take her life did not look good. It was probably the bleakest, darkest days of our life up to that point. When through mercy she at last […]

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Think Like A Cree?

Recently I was on the northern frontier of Canada. It was a small village of Cree speaking people. I was there to contribute to the music. Morning meetings could last up to four and a half hours and evening meetings as long as six. From Wednesday to Sunday night that was our schedule. One evening […]

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Victory?

So the Ashers won their case. Horray!!   Is Mr Lee humiliated in his defeat? Probably not because his goal was possibly to highlight the discrimination against gay people and all people whose beliefs do not correspond to the mainstream conservative centre.   And in this Mr Lee has entirely succeeded. Every angry, triumphant vice […]

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Out There!

I was invited recently for a meeting. I wasn’t really sure what the purpose was before I got there and I’m not even that sure the person who called it knew. At one point they also asked me this question “ Do you realise how far “Out There” you are?” Now I guess if I […]

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Be Not Afraid.

Last year I was in Jerusalem. We toured the city and saw the “Holy” places, stood in long lines and bought Shofars. It was brilliant. Then they took us to see mount Zion. I’m sure you’ve all heard songs and stories that talk about going “up” to Zion? And that’s probably because the crusaders didn’t […]

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It’s time to be brave

On the side of a spacecraft speeding thru the cosmos is a recording of “Dark was the night, cold was the ground” by Blind Willie Johnson. If it should be encountered by other life forms one of the first things they’ll know about humanity is an instrumental track recorded in 1927 by a blind black […]

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