I usually perform mostly my own Andy Roberts music but last night I felt like doing a short tribute to Roy Harper at the Havering folk club, where I do my thing on Wednesdays.  "I'll see you again"  went down well I think, but I was surprised that there was such little  recognition of the name Roy Harper, even though this  is an audience mostly of my own generation and slightly older.  One person knew him well and asked me if I knew the one that goes &q

I've been toddling along to Havering Folk Club in Romford, Essex since July this year when I discovered the place upstairs in a 14th century pub right in the centre of Romford. 

The Golden Lion,   2 High St., Romford, RM1 1HR

So now I have a date for my own 'featured members night'  which will be on

Very old song of mine blogged at  Hold On Below

Having just written about this new google mp3 service for downloading free mp3 files, searching and uploading, I'd suggest making use of the service while it lasts.

http://www.myspace.com/theandyroberts

I was never really happy with the idea of splitting up a song into two parts just to meet the upload restrictions of MySPace so I've taken down "Gernika part 1" and "Gernika part 2".  Of course the whole song is still downloadable from here on Splinters and on DARnet

I've made one blog entry here and will write again but I already have a number of blog sites so I'll use this space to point to external articles from time to time as well.

I just wrote about the problems of performing an 8 minute song as a floor spot in folk clubs over on DARnet

I'm a long time ( 35 yrs) fan of  Loudon Wainwright and I went to a concert last night at the Barbican, London.

It was the first time I've been to a gig in the full concert hall there, it's a great venue and the gig went very well with Loudon on form, not forgetting the words even once and joined on stage for a couple of duets with 2nd daughter Lucy Wainwright Roche who has a lovely clear Kate Rusby type of voice.