THE CLAY FACES

s'up dawgs? where the hell did april go anyway? got five gigs worth of re-capping to do, so here goes... first off is a regular haunt of ours, the turnpike in middlewich, town of barges and salt. we first met landlord Tony way back in the day, when we played the boat and folk festival at the cheshire cheese. since then, having upped-ship to the turnpike, Tony has always been a firm clay faces supporter and it's been our pleasure to return time and again for the lovely crowd in there, who always… Continue

well i don't know about you guys, but we had a blast down in the smoke on the 17th. really great to be a part of the show and fantastic to put faces to names at last. 'course the biggest shout of all goes to Keith, Leigh and Unleaded Clint for their sterling efforts leading up to, and on the day. Anyone who's tried to put together a multi-bill show will know what a stressful task it can be, but from where i was standing the entire thing seemed to run very smoothly. so yeah, very well done guys.… Continue

so. last thursday we piled down to the full moon in newcastle under lyme. thats about all there is to say on the matter, except for another shout to the guys from a thousand wild flowers who opened up for us and were, as ever, absolutely fantastic and destined im sure, for much bigger and better things. saturday night was a new one for us, at the queens head, situated in the sprawling derbyshire hamlet of belper. ace little venue - the pub itself seemed a cracking little boozer, but the gig its… Continue

sat 29 march - oggy's bar, hanley oggy oggy oggy let's just get one thing straight - we don't do, and never will do, the fields of athenry. ok? good. anyway, yeh, good gig. a rainy saturday night in hanley and, standing having a smoke outside the venue i was reminded of the frame of mind i was in when i wrote 'dark waltz'. yep, stoke on trent is truly one of the shittiest of shit-holes in the country. however, the craic was getting on for ninety and a fair bit of drinking was performed by al… Continue

yo. hope you all had a good easter weekend? ours was a very restful one, no gigs since thursday night at the crown near telford. ace venue. only small, but a pretty good sound, an audience who are actually there to listen to the music and the ale is probably the best for miles - at the risk of sounding stereotypically northern, a fookin crackin pint of mild! but yeh seriously, a very well kept public house, so hats off to John the gaffer and everyone there at the crown. we were joined for the la… Continue