Hi Keith and Rick,

Thanks for visiting Sheffield it was an absolute honour to have you there. Your performance is absolute perfection as always. Sorry i didn't say much as although i turned up by myself, an old friend turned up out of the blue who i needed to keep an eye on.

I Hope you had a great gig and do come by again soon. Look forward to seeing you in Tanworth again. Don't forget that i put your performance up on youtube at this years nick drake do. Please feel free to use it for anything. 
Regards,
James Newman Gray

 

Hi Keith

I am thrilled that you are performing the songs of John Martyn.

I was devastated at the news of his death in January as I have followed his music for many years (and learned to play May You Never on acoustic, amongst others).

I had the pleasure of promoting him many times in Shropshire and even shared a few beers with him one interval, to ensure he did not disappear into the night, never to return. (the advice of his then tour manager)

Best wishes

Chris

Hi Keith

I very much admire your work and was excited to see that you feature Sandy Denny in the repertoire for your small venues tour in the autumn. I'll make sure to relay that to the various Sandy online fora that I'm involved with. Are there likely to be any other dates than those listed? Moving as I do between Cambridge and London, I'm disappointed not to find a venue anywhere near me!

Best wishes

Philip Ward
www.sandydenny.blogspot.com

 

Dear Keith

You may remember me from when you were filming the Nick Drake documentary in Tanworth.

I wanted to email, as I'm afraid I was working away and missed your last gig at the Mill in Banbury recently, but will get tickets for the 7 October one.
Let us know if you'd like to stay here again, as Ros and I would be very pleased to put you up.

I'm pleased to see that you're now focusing on the John Martyn canon.  You may recall that he was a friend of old, and it felt very strange getting the news that he had died - despite his years of not doing his body any favours.
The last time I spoke with him at the hotel after the Brighton gig on his last tour, we spoke about me being an editor/researcher for the twinkle in his eye that was to be his intended autobiography (expressing his concern about the gaps in the biographies that had been written until then).  We arranged for me to visit him while I was to be in Ireland at the beginning of September, but it wasn't to be.  However, I'm going to see his partner Theresa while I'm there.

Anyway, enough of this.  I hope the tour goes well, and I look forward to seeing you at the Mill.  Don't hesitate to email if you'd like to stay here.

Regards

Herman

 

Hi Keith

Thanks for calling. If you could send me a press release and any photography available, including a hi-res version of the John Martyn pic you mentioned, that would be a good starting point.
If the gig is September 15th then I reckon we could look at running a feature circa Friday September 4th. How about we have a chat on August 27th or 28th?
My encounter with Davy Graham was a few years ago backstage at the 12 Bar Club in Denmark Place. He'd just finished a fairly shambolic set that contained a few tantalising flashes of brilliance, far outweighed by the fluffed notes and wayward vocals. I and a couple of friends milled around and then I plucked up the courage to say how much I loved Folk, Blues and Beyond and how it had influenced my own guitar playing, and then asked him if he still played the blues much. He said "no, it bores me", and a propos of nothing launched into an anecdote about his prostate troubles and how the real drag about getting old was queuing up at the post office and then having to leave the queue to go home to pee. A few drinks later I picked up his guitar (quite a few people had been playing it, it was all quite a laidback affair) and starting playing Angi on it. Quite firmly he said "Would you stop that now please". And I don't blame him at all - most embarrassing, with hindsight. And that was that.
Anyway, that is the story of when I met Davy Graham. It kind of compares with when I interviewed Bill Wyman but all he would talk about was his passion for metal detecting. Like I said, never meet your heroes - or maybe, if you do, be prepared for them being rather less exciting than you'd hoped...
Enough rambling. Look forward to speaking at the end of the month and seeing you on September 15.
All the best,
Keiron