All for show on ‘It’s a Frog’s Life’ acoustic podcast

A big thankyou to Graham Holland at ‘It’s a Frog’s Life’ acoustic podcast for playing ‘All for Show’ on the latest episode (118)

Here’s a link to the site where you can listen/download the episode:

It’s A Frog’s Life Acoustic Podcast

http://www.archive.org/download/ItsAFrogsLifeAcousticPodcast/itsafrogslife118.mp3

url update

Graham Holland from It’s A Frog’s Life Acoustic Podcast has done some digging around and got in touch to tell me that I’ll be able to re-register the domain name after 24th July 2012. So not too long before normal service can be resumed.

A massive massive thankyou to Graham for his investigations. It’s well worth checking out his podcast which you can find here: It’s A Frog’s Life Acoustic Podcast

new elephant friendly url: http://sideshowmanny.wordpress.com

I’m not much of an activist, I don’t think it’s always a good idea for musicians to get too preachy, it’s the thin end of the Bono wedge…
I had the sideshowmanny.com url registered through Go Daddy, however, after reading this article – bob-parsons-godaddy-ceo-elephant-hunt, I decided not to renew it with Go Daddy when the time came.
So I let it expire but Go Daddy still own the url (there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to register it through another company at the moment).
Which means for the time being at least, the url for the site is: http://sideshowmanny.wordpress.com

It’s more to type but at least no elephants will die in the process.

The Comeback Tour

Next Saturday night (the 18th) I will be coming back out of hiding and playing a set in Fubar in Clausen (It’s between the Pyg and Maybe Not Bobs).

I will be playing a set and also Ross Steele (a fellow Scottish crooner) will be playing a set, both will be assisted by the able lead guitar skills of Eddie “Skippy (he’s the best)” Leonard.

And that’s not all! There will also be an open mic slot where local talents are invited to get up, sing a song, tell a joke, juggle flaming daggers or tame lions, whatever your talent may be!

So a full nights entertainment, which will kick off at 9pm. Feel free to spread the word, the more the merrier!

“Writing a New Score” on Dalecast #783

Back from holiday again to find that Steve’s played another song, “Writing a New Score” on the show – merci buckets mon ami!

The site – http://www.dalecast.co.uk/
The feed –

The show – http://www.stevenwheatley.co.uk/dalecast/episodes/dalecast783.mp3

Writing a New Score

My friend, Richie Babel, seems to be well and truly back to being his cocky little frontman self again but that’s not the Richie that inspired this song.
This song was written from the perspective of the more pessimistic, downbeat Richie, when his band wouldn’t let him sing or use his songs and he would say things like -

The other side of this though is that I now fing that when I’m writing something, I’m more likely to abandon it and discard it as another cliché, i.e. “you’ve been there and done that a thousand times …”.

And I find myself playing the chord that sounds best, looking for the next part of the progression and thinking “well, yeah, that’s OK, but it’s a bit obvious isn’t it”

And my personal favourite –

…you’re mostly left with 1-4-5 and sometimes the minor second and a bloke that can’t sing to save his life.
The same certainly goes for the entire album I wrote.

So here it is, “Writing a New Score”, the first recording of the new guitar as well. hope you enjoy!

Holy Mojo Photo’s

I got round to taking some snaps of the holy mojo on my new guitar.

Do you?

Cos you gotta have…

In…

Gimme 5000 of those -

Holy mojo!

I treated myself to a new guitar recently. Well, I say new, it’s 21 years old but it’s new to me! I’m the guitars 3rd owner, the 1st owner was a preacher in the States who had adorned the guitar with some stickers (Shouldn’t a preacher know better than to commit sacrilege?!). The second owner removed the stickers but in the 20 years they’d been on there, they’d left a bit of a ‘T’ shirt tan…
So now on the guitar you can see, in glorious T shirt tan, the words “Jesus”, “Believe” and “Faith” plus the outline of a small Christian fish symbol…
So the guitar has some holy mojo, don’t know how it’ll feel about my songs of drunken one night stands and general debauchery but it’s a dream to play and I absolutely love it.
I’m nearly finished recording the first song with it, “Writing a New Score”, I just need to do a few finishing touches and I’ll have it here for you in the next few days.

Here’s a picture of the guitar, for the guitar geeks out there it’s a Larrivée LV-03E. The picture is just the eBay picture from the seller, I’ll get some better ones done at some point with some close ups of the holy mojo T shirt tans

A couple of podcast plays

Howdy folks,

another couple of podcast plays:

The SmorgShowPodcast #031
The site – http://www.chickentongue.com/
The feed –

The show – http://traffic.libsyn.com/smorgshow/SmorgShow_Podcast_031.mp3

Filmed but not Forgotten #144
The site – http://www.lugashi.com/
The feed –

The show – http://traffic.libsyn.com/filmedbutnotforgotten/fbnf144fullshow.mp3

“In The Pygmalion Bar” on show #773 of Dalecast

I just got back from holiday to find that Steve’s played “In The Pygmalion Bar” on last weeks show – good man!

The site – http://www.dalecast.co.uk/
The feed –

The show – http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Dalecast/~5/Vu7Jtj3Tfj4/dalecast773.mp3