Our collaborative venture is shaping up. Please bookmark or favourite our website theuntangledknot.com to stay in touch with what we're up to. Thanks to generous funding from #createberwick, our album will be our November 21st live and live streamed performance here in Berwick.

We were doing some odd jobs in the garden this afternoon and this young #robin, still in its juvinal plumage was following us around. It let me get close enough to get these photos on my phone.

Last month we took a cruse along the rivers Main and Rhine from Nuremberg to Basel. Day 9 Basel I had been to Basel several times in the 1980s when I spent a lot of time in Switzerland but I did not know it as well as many of the other cities. There is a lot to see!

Last month we took a cruse along the rivers Main and Rhine from Nuremberg to Basel. A second post for Day 8. Our ship was docked in Breisach and we had the opportunity to explore the town at leisure in the afternoon.

Last month we took a cruse along the rivers Main and Rhine from Nuremberg to Basel. Day 8 Freiburg Im Breisgau. We are in the foot hills of the Black Forest.

Last month we took a cruse along the rivers Main and Rhine from Nuremberg to Basel. Day 7 Strasburg. With the Rhine now running along the German - French border we visited Strasburg. Its a city I would be very keen to visit for a longer time.

Last month we took a cruse along the rivers Main and Rhine from Nuremberg to Basel. Day 6 Baden Baden We docked in the industrial port area of Karlsruhe but did not visit the city, instead we took a coach trip to the genteel spa town of Baden Baden.

Last month we took a cruse along the rivers Main and Rhine from Nuremberg to Basel. Day 5 Frankfurt. Another city risen from the ashes with two contrasting goals. The ultra modern and the historical reconstruction.

This Sunday at The 1865, Southampton. Doors 19:00..... ZIO Featuring members and ex-members of Carl Palmer's ELP legacy, Franck Carducci's band, Karnataka, The Hayley Griffiths band, Landmarq and Riverdance. I hope to see you there. geoffreytucker42.wixsite.com/solentareapr...

Last month we took a cruse along the rivers Main and Rhine from Nuremberg to Basel. Day 4 Lohr am Main a delightful town of half timbered buildings which seems intent on expanding its tourism by pushing it as the source of the folk tale that became Snow White.

Last month we took a cruse along the rivers Main and Rhine from Nuremberg to Basel. Day 3 - Würzburg. A city mostly destroyed in WW2 but lovingly restored. the highlight is the Residence, former home of the Prince Bishops, that curious rank of the Holy Roman Empire,

Last month we took a cruse along the rivers Main and Rhine from Nuremberg to Basel. Day two was in #Bamberg, a city which largely escaped destruction in WW2.

Last month we took a cruse along the rivers Main and Rhine from Nuremberg to Basel. Day one was in #Nuremberg. A delightful city with a dark history!

I have been editing my holiday photos. Some photos taken on a canal boat tour in Strasburg were shot through the glass on the boat an had horrendous reflections in them. I was impressed by the way Adobe Lightroom removed the reflections. OK its AI but..

This arrived while I was on holiday. Five CD and one Blueray box sets of the #Strawbs BBC Radio and TV recordings 1966 1984.

See you next Sunday!

Fire brigade, Swiss style. 🇨🇭 🇨🇭

My last evening on the Rhine, moon on the water and the hills of the Black Forest on the horizon.

If you haven't yet followed my collaboration with @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social @shirley-sings.bsky.social and #bethporter please give us a follow here: @theuntangledknot.bsky.social Things are beginning to take shape 😎

Sunset over France tonight looking from the Rhine towards the Voges mountains.

Dusk on the Rhine this evening.

A nice lineup for this festival.

Alan Reed @3hobbits.bsky.social will be at The 1865 on 1st September.

Marienkapelle (St Mary's Chapel) in Wurzburg.

A glorious day on the River Main.

Beautiful Blue Tit feeding in the spring buds. 😍 Taken this weekend at RSPB Ham Wall in. 😊🐦 #birds 🪶

Settling down for an evening of Franconian music and Gypsy jazz. Somthing a bit different!

Spotted this shop in Nürnberg and thought @closetotheedge.bsky.social could easily go bankrupt there 😁

The Dart Music festival runs from 15-17 May this year with events in venues all over Dartmouth. Free entry funded by program sales and donations. A wide range of artist, folk, classical, jazz, rock, soul and pop all get a look in. www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk @singingconductor.bsky.social

-> forward to playing #CaryfordCommunityHall #CastleCary #Somerset TONIGHT, #TheatrauSirgar #Ffwrnes #StiwdioStepni #Llanelli Weds, #AlbanyTheatre Studio #Coventry next Sun, & the #tour continues through 6 June, with more summer dates to follow. See ->

When you improve the conditions around touring, everything changes. Better accommodation means artists can stay on the road longer. It reduces costs that were making shows unworkable. It improves wellbeing. It raises the standard of performances night after night.

Another day and more railway issues. Many cancellations and delays coming out of Paddington. So I have jumped on a delayed service that quite a bit earlier than the one I planned on the principal it better to be on the move.

Well that was excellent, Solstice at the Water Rats in King's Cross tonight. Hot, crowded and sweaty venue, I really enjoyed it but my legs are telling me I am getting a bit old for this type of gig.

And now round the corner to the Water Rats for Solstice, the main event. Pre gig photo. Small venue sold out.

The trains did not foil me. I am here in the basement of the Harrison pub in King's Cross waiting for the Franck Carducci listeng party. Franck and Mary greeting the punters.

On a trip to London to see Solstice this evening. Off to a good start with my train being cancelled! I should still get in in plenty of time to catch the Franck Carccudi listeng party at 5.

The Chartroom cafe in #Brixham has many interesting nautical exhibits and ship models. (And decent coffee too.) These are in the restroom.

Now playing. "Clan" by Solstice. I am off to see them in London on Thursday after being impressed by their support set for BBT in Southampton recently. By good fortune I should be able to catch Franck Carducci doing a free listening party in a nearby venue prior to the concert.

Now playing. The new Magenta album "Tarot" delivered by the postie this morning. First impression is it's excellent.

The Newburn Smugglers EP is now available here: johnreed.bandcamp.com/album/the-ne... Please take a listen, share it, comment on it, like it, or whatever floats your boat...ooh, a pun!

Great gig at the #Exeter cavern last night - three fantastic bands (Mustelids, Mt Onsra and Abrasive Trees) for £8 🖤 Here's a short burst of @abrasivetrees.bsky.social making a glorious noise #LiveMusic

Here’s Sandy Denny’s own illustration to announce her debut solo album

Not obligatory because it's not a real gig, but pre the Abba Voyage show tonight. 'Tis a different world!

The town crier is found strapped to an enormous cheese wheel. Suspicion falls on Ferne Basset’s P&C association, confused that shady goings on in condiments factories might threaten to disrupt pagan customs during the forthcoming Autumn equinox.

I have obtained myself an Omnichord as a treat, and I am about to make it my entire personality.

It was very cold in London today, but bright and clear so its was an ideal time to visit the top of Shard.

We are in "The Smoke" for my wife's birthday treat. Tonight we are going to the "Abba Voyage" hologram thingy. I fear an over exuberant audience, wish me luck.

A rare trip into Torquay on the bus for me. Its the first time I have been on one of the new fleet of electric busses they have just introduced.

There are little corners of Exeter that people visiting for shopping or business often miss.

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