Here’s a few vids taken at Live In The Vinyard.

OK I know…. Flying around the world is not the best thing for the environment and driving around in a Dodge Challenger is a twist of the knife….. but look at it, it’s got skulls on and it goes really fast and after all I’m still just a child pretending to be grown up. (skull courtesy of Jerry Garcia’s personal assistant who just happened to be having a yard sale as we drove past)

The cult movie ‘Vanishing Point’ had a fairly large impact on me as a young man. A car delivery guy named Kowalski takes a bet to deliver a Dodge Challenger in record time from Colorado to San Francisco with help from a blind radio DJ and gets into some pretty impressive high speed tussles with the law, meets a naked lady on a motorbike and some gay hitchhikers. I’m pleased to report that I haven’t received any speeding tickets during my time in the US so far and the car made it back to it’s rightful home in one piece and not in a ball of flame like Kowalski, there’s always next year I guess. It’s also too cold for naked motorcycling in California at the moment it seems.

I do however plan to take on another bicycle trip, although I might have to go round the world a few times to even start to make up for the carbon footprint. The Band are keen and we’ve certainly met a few likely candidates on our travels who are up for the challenge. (or the Challenger) Watch this space.

We have just been up in California playing a magnificent event called ‘Live in the Vineyard’, played some amazing unplugged shows in wine caves that stretch on forever under the fertile soils of the Napa Valley and seen some amazing artists. I thoroughly recommend looking up the Barr Brothers. I’ll post some footage form the show at the Miner Vineyard cellar. I hope you enjoy the slow version of honey bee which was helped along by a few nice bottles of ‘Oracle’.

The band and I are off to sunny Barbados this week for the Virgin Atlantic music festival. I know some of you guys are coming so we’ll see you there.

All the best,

Martin