成人快手

I thought I better write something before a year elapses! I promise I'll try harder this time...

So what's been happening? The gap is too big to fill so I'll just start afresh.

Well the have three reasonably important gigs next week at the Edinburgh Festival. I hope the fact that there are more critics than artists in Edinburgh doesn't make me nervous. If you're in Edinburgh we're playing at the Speigel Tent on 25th, 26th and 27th at 6pm.

I've just landed my strangest job yet... as a stone skimming double! I got a phone call from Granada television looking for someone to skim stones for a television drama called Distant Shores. The character that is a great stone skimmer is played by an actor who isn't, so they contacted the organisers of the World Stone Skimming Championships here on Easdale and for some strange reason they were given my name. I get a free trip to Northumberland and a few bob in my pocket!

Easdale is hosting conference today.. so I'm off to hobnob with folk from all over the Hebrides!

Cheerie

I managed to survive the marauding hoardes of leaflet distributers on the High Street, but Sandy Bell's house gin took a much greater toll!

In all my years visiting Embra, this is my first time during the festival, and I can understand why some of my friends vacate the city for most of August. There's certainly plenty going on, but you need more then the second sight to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Our gigs went pretty well, and we got a good review in Saturday's Herald. It was quite a buzz to play in a 'tent' built in the 1920's, and to follow in the footsteps of other West Highland folk singers like Marlene MacDietrich!

My highlight of the festival? Luckily it's there all year round... Ann Purna Vegetarian Indian Restaurant. Excellent food, good prices, nae fag smoke and very friendly service.