Dr. Folkenstein is here!
Last summer, I found a diary I’d written in the heady days of 1992! Around about that time, I started to write these songs and […]
Citizen Smith album livestream – 7/5/21
This was the last in my series of four livestreams that happened over the winter of 2021 – and a right party was had too! […]
Vote Nobody Album Livestream 2/4/21
Here’s the video for the livestream I did for my album “Vote Nobody” on 2nd April 2021. It happened slap-bang in the middle of demonstrations […]
Hiraeth – the livestream
Six years ago, I was reeling from a lot of bad dreams and broken promises. I had a collection of songs that I had been writing and […]
Picket Line Party – ten years on
Ten years ago, I was in the middle of recording the album Picket Line Party. As the Tory/LibDem coalition unleashed a wave of austerity on the UK, […]
Eruptions – what’s going down in Cardiff right now is a microcosm of what’s rocking the country…
CW: mentions of rape, sexual assault “I’m ashamed to say this, but I used to go out with one of you lot.” The crowd of […]
General Election Ranting…
(This is basically a composite rant that I sent out around the UK General Election in December 2019) I did something naughty for Labour… …but […]
Ble Mae Ellie Mai?
Everyone seems to have a story about Ellie. She was one of those people you could meet only a few times and she’d still make […]
Anti-fascist ranting…
My relationship with fascism is lifelong and till now nothing to do with milkshakes. My father came of age in Hungary during the Second World […]
As Water turns to Beer, the case for #VogonBrexit becomes irresistible…..
On the way to a gig in south London, a guy comes up to me twice and asks me for change. The first time, I’m […]