25 years ago on an outing in London with mates we did the classic Eros statue shot. A right dodgy crew we were I reckon looking at us. Are you working tonight ladies? No we weren’t honestly. But so long ago. I would have been about 43 in that picture I guess. Time’s winged chariot seem to have been travelling at something close to light speed I feel on some days.

Well, right now I feel as if we have hit peak nothing makes sense any more. I have had a few better nights sleep recently in terms of not waking up to much which is good. I do feel in a very odd mood. Not depressed but puzzled rather. That’s life I guess. I think I still need to try and find a really local music buddie for open mics and stuff, but I can’t get my head in the right place for it to be honest at present.

Grace Will Lead Me Home

Sunday was a little different doing sound for ‘Grace Will Lead Me Home’ at St Saviours in St Albans. It’s been years since I have done live sound for another act. Think I got away with it.
I also recorded the gig on multitrack too. I haven’t checked that out yet though. Its a project that Jon Bickley is part off.

Angeline, Cohen and Jon

The heart of the project is the creation of new music. Angeline Morrison, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne and Jon Bickley got together in Dartmouth House in Olney to research and respond to the writing of Amazing Grace, Newton’s life and times. It was a time when slavery was an accepted part of the trading economy of the world. Earlier in his life Newton had been the captain of a slave trading ship and then later he was an abolitionist.  

The house was once owned by the Earl of Dartmouth and he gave John Newton his first clerical posting as Curate in Charge at St.Peter and St.Paul’s in Olney.

The Cowper and Newton Museum showed us where Newton preached and where he wrote, we played Cowper’s harpsichord  and we saw the manacles that kept kidnapped Africans incarcerated in the cargo hold of British trading ships.

Read more here

https://invisiblefolk.com/grace-will-lead-me-home