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Protest Days, Rebellion Nights, October Books, Dec. 4th, 2025
Just a little over a month to go to our first Monty + The AnyWhens show on the mainland on Thursday, December 4th, 2025, October Books, Southampton (doors 7pm).
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Samhain Stories and Songs at The Star, November 1st 2025
A quarter day celebration, of Samhain, Hallowe’en, All Saints Day and All Souls Day, that time of the year when the vel between this world and the other world is at its thinnest, a time for story, and song, and beer, and pizza…
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Island Tales, Soft Launch
At my Dark Tales show at Carvel Lane Coffee House in Cowes — a great venue and one I hope to return too as soon as we can fix a date — I did a “soft (re)launch” of the first two booklets in the Island Tales storynotes series: A Legend of Godshill, and A Legend of Puckaster Cove*.
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Protest Days, Rebellion Nights, Winter 2025
They were days of direct action: the Diggers and the Levellers, the Plug Drawer rioters and the Pentrich rebels; the followers of King Ludd, and of Captain Swing; of juries, and spies; of executions, and alibis.
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Dark Tales for Dark Nights at Carvel Lane Coffee House
On Thursday, October 23rd, 2025, from 7pm, I’ll be taking some Dark Tales for Dark Nights to The Carvel Lane Coffee House, Cowes.
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Newport Minster Harvest Folk Night October 2025
On Saturday, October 4th, 2025, from 6.30pm, there’s a Harvest Folk Night at Newport Minster, featuring local folk bands (Second Time Around, Jess & Al, The AnyWhens) and yours truly taking turns tellin’ a couple of tales during band changeovers.
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Maritime Tales at the Star along with the AnyWhens
Next Thursday, September 25th, 2025, from 7pm, I’ll be back in The Star along with Glenn’n’Sue, aka The AnyWhens, for a couple of hours turn taking songs’n’stories with a maritime time.
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CANCELLED — Unforeseen Consequences at Faversham Fringe 2025...
My third and final fringe festival outing of the year for my original “Unforeseen Consequences” show (first presented as Unforeseen Consequences: Travelling the Road in 2023).
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A new beginning...
A new website for a new chapter… I gave up work at the end of July 2025, so this is my life now, a life of story, of telling tales for my supper…
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