13 November 2006
Third gig added to rock and roll tour of Christmas, in Manchester. Lots of fun last week playing live on Sure Radio. Alan Buckley back at Blundell Park. Weird times!

22 October 2006
Super standing-up fun at Sheffield's Bar Matrix the other night! My polka dot guitar strap from Sparklecraft finally arrived last week and so in supporting Screaming Mimi, Repomen and Ormondroyd (all of whom were bloody ace) I had a first ever not-sitting-down solo gig. It was easier to play some stuff (like the twock-out double solos in 'Fragile, Fragile') but nearly bloody impossible to play barre chords, so some work will be needed there, but it was a good gig to a big crowd in a venue that wasn't quite as awful as I expected (though it did, as I had anticipated with a heavy heart, have a bloke standing in the toilets who you were supposed to give money to for a squirt of a sweet-smelling thing from a bottle), and I finally debuted 'Take Your Time', and I think I went down quite well. Hooray!

The two gigs the other week were a lot of fun as well, with the splendid Horowitz being splendid and giving me crashspace in Stoke, and then I had to wait around in the city centre for ages the next day because the first train to Derby wasn't until the middle of the afternoon, but I sat in the station and read the paper, then went to a pub and did a sudoku and had a Sudden Moment of Extreme Bliss, as I do from time to time when sitting in pubs on my own with no particular place to go. So I finally went to Derby and the ace Lardpony people looked after me handsomely and took my stuff to the venue and took me to the pub to watch Town beat Hereford on the telly before I played the stuff. Skill! It was a great gig to be at as well, with the 'Pony playing a gorgeous acoustic set and Frankie Machine being heart-stoppingly wonderful and everyone else being brilliant as well. I like Derby!

Anyway, shut up, right, cos I am gonna release a single! On a new label called Atomic Beat Records! It's going to be 'Everything I Do is Gonna be Sparkly' and last weekend I went to Birmingham to record drums for it with my brother. He can play a bit too. I'm hoping to get the rest recorded over the next couple of weeks, and you never know, we might get the thing out by Christmas. Ace, eh?

Speaking of Christmas, I am trying to put together a rock and roll tour of Christmas. There are two dates so far! Have a look on the gigs page and you will see. Bye!

26 September 2006
Just a quickie to let you know that I'm playing Bar Matrix in Sheffield on 20 October. The venue looks kind of alarming – I'm not going to give you a link to the website because I would actually quite like you to come to the gig – but Elie asked very nicely and it's a single launch for the lovely Screaming Mimi, who very kindly gave me a lift home from Derby during my rock and roll tour of rock in June.

Oh, and more photos from London. Look, I'm gorgeous! Mmmm, pizza.

5 September 2006
Life-changing multiple thankyous to all who watched my recentmost sets at the Grapes in Sheffo or the Buffalo Bar in bloody that London. I had a blast! Photos from the London gig have found their way onto the excellent Underexposed site and also the Flickr site where my friend Kristin posts her bloody fantastic pics, so look ye thence, everyone!

That MJ Hibbett bloke told me I should get a guitar strap and play standing up, so that people don't think I'm a massive wimp and they can just talk through my set. So I thought I'd give it a try, once I realised I could get a bloody brilliant polka dot strap! Actually, that'll probably still make people think I'm a massive wimp, won't it. Wonder if it's too late to cancel the order?

If it's not, then you will see the aforesaid shoulder/guitar interface device in operation at one of my four forthcoming autumnal gigs! More about these can be found in the forthcoming events section, better and more commonly known as the gigs page.

6 August 2006
Nottingham the other week was bloody fantastic: possibly the most fun I have had on my own. During my solo musical career, I mean. If you were there and listening, a huge ta!

Badges! I have loads of Pete Green badges to give away, and shall be doing so at next week's Sheffield gig. Hee! If you want one and can't get to the gig, drop me an email and we'll sort it out some other way.

Town came back from 2-0 down against Boston yesterday to win 3-2! It was all because of an 18-year-old kid called Peter Bore, who made his debut as a substitute and scored two goals. And he went to school down the end of the road where I grew up! Football can still be amazing sometimes.

Oh right... music. Yeah. The Leeds gig will be in October now. I'm also playing an acoustic all-dayer in Derby with a bloody great line-up! Hit the gigs page for enlightenment.

23 July 2006
Five more gigs coming up! Well, four and a bit – I'm still waiting to hear back about the Leeds one. "Leeds one?" you say. "Yes," I reply, for the line-up of destinations this time round is not exactly the same as it was for the rock and roll tour of rock earlier this summer! Nottingham, Sheffield, Derby and London are all present and arguably correct, but I'm not playing Birmingham this time because the promoter got sacked for not making enough money. Sounds about right. But this time, like I say, I should be playing Leeds, and with any luck there won't be too much in the way of random shouting men there for once!

Anyway, yes... the place to go to find out more about these gigs is, as ever, the gigs page.

I think I'll do an EP before the album now. I figured the only way I'd ever get my shit together enough to actually release something before George Bush blows the world up is by breaking the task down into bite-sized chunks – like you have to do for little children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Well, it works for them. If you give them drugs as well. Oooh, a butterfly. Is it a red admiral or a small tortoiseshell? I can't tell from here. Hang on a minute.

Er... oh, yeah. I got a lovely email today from somebody in Australia who was spending the morning listening to 'Everything's Dead Pretty When it Snows'. Hello, Ashley! I'll email you back when I get a minute. Life never stands still for us acoustic indie pop rock and roll stars of acoustic indie pop, you know. Oh, I love the internet.