I’m sitting in a hotel in Essen Germany. I should be getting ready to go to Iraq for Play for Progresses pilot program in Erbil. After keeping a close eye on the current events out there it became obvious that now wasn’t the time to go. Mosul is less than…
The record of five hours sitting in traffic to get to a gig was spectacularly broken yesterday by the eight hours it took us to get to Manchester. This is the kind of thing that could easily put a damper on a gig. Arriving tired, stiff and low in energy.…
Let me sum it up for you in one word- awesome! We arrived to play our first gig in the Imp to find my cousin , Anna and a whole posse of her friends already waiting for us. We had an amazing gig with Mike neatly being kidnapped for his…
Last night was the launch of the Working Out Of Town tour- #WOOT. In the Torriano bar hosted by the fabulous Lost Horizons we opened to a great crowd of people who welcomed all our music from Gaelic love songs to personal dedications to pop rock health stories……. https://twitter.com/RosieBans/status/470019029181431808/photo/1 Today…
hello hello, I am delighted to be able to finally share with you all the new initiative that will taking me back to Kurdistan in June. Play for Progress This is a music program for the children in the Erbil orphanage in Kurdistan. Alyson Frazier and myself have been working…
The holidays came and went in a blur of family, food and traveling. A brilliant time was had by all including of course a wee song on Hogmanay. I spent January gearing up for my first trip to the middle east- Iraq to be precise. I had been asked to…
