16.02.10: The first batch of dates for Rod's summer and autumn tour with Rachel Harrington has been announced and more will be added shortly - keep checking the Forthcoming Dates page for the latest updates. |
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16.02.10: The first batch of dates for Rod's summer and autumn tour with Rachel Harrington has been announced and more will be added shortly - keep checking the Forthcoming Dates page for the latest updates. |
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09.02.10: Rod appears in a new video alongside Allie Fox and country songwriter Kathy Stewart, performing a new song of Allie's, entitled Last Chance Hotel. Besides being Rod's agent, Allie is a respected singer/songwriter whose Diving For Pearls CD (2000) won widespread critical acclaim and whose forthcoming collection of guitar instrumentals (entitled Wayland's Blues) also features Rod on dobro. Two other songs (including one of Rod's) were recorded at the same session as Last Chance Hotel and will be released in due course.
Read Allie's blog about the making of this song at http://www.myspace.com/alliefoxmusic.
02.02.10: Recorded live at a 1977 Nottingham gig and now available for the first time, And Then There Were Three captures the power-trio of iconoclastic guitarist Michael Chapman, Rod on bass and legendary drummer Keef Hartley at the height of their popularity and powers. Released 22nd of March on Market Square.
02.02.10: Following a short but
enthusiastically-received run of gigs last summer, Rod and Seattle-based country/soul sensation
Rachel Harrington are getting
together again to tour the UK through August, September and October 2010.
02.02.10: Rod will be conducting a full-day Slide
Guitar Workshop at the Beauchief
Hotel, Sheffield, on Wednesday, the 10th of November
2010. Further details will be announced later – in the meantime,
contact stuart.wiley@btinternet.com, tel.
(01246) 419718, for information.
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25.01.10: Rod recently travelled the length & breadth of Great Britain as special guest on all twenty-three
dates of Thea Gilmore's Wintertide Tour. Rod opened each show
with a 40-minute solo set and later joined Thea,
Nigel Stonier, Fluff (and occasional percussionist Dan Logan) for the closing
numbers of the set – That'll Be Christmas, Midwinter Toast, St Stephen's Day Murders – and
the encores, an unrehearsed performance of a 'cheesy Christmas classic' (selected by a member of
the audience throwing a dart at a dartboard bearing the titles of several all-too-familiar
Yuletide singalongs). Here's some footage of Thea's own definitely uncheesy classic
Mainstream with some fine trademark dobro support from Rod.
Thea and friends at the Bush Hall, London, 3.12.09. L to R: Nigel Stonier, Thea, Rod, Fluff. Obscured behind Thea is the Invisible Dan (Logan) on percussion.
Photo: Chris Groom
The Bert Jansch Band at the Half Moon, Putney, 11.04.88
Photo: Julia Revell
25.01.10: The Half Moon in Putney, London, is to continue as a live music venue. Following a highly vocal & well-orchestrated protest campaign, landlords Young's Brewery have bowed to popular pressure and abandoned plans to turn it into a gastropub. To celebrate this victory, here is a historic photo of Rod with the Bert Jansch Band treading the hallowed boards of the Half Moon stage in April 1988. Left to right: Rod, Jacqui McShee (vocals), Luce Langridge (drums), Bert and Nigel Portman-Smith (bass). (If it had been Gerry Conway playing drums instead of Luce Langridge, it would have been Pentangle, but it wasn't.)
Older news items, together with various other retrospective bits and pieces, can be found in the Archive section.
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