THE GRASMERE GUZZLER PART ONE TRACK LIST As usual a click onto the highlighted names will take you to the websites of the featured artistes, apologies for a missing title or two where this occurs it’s because there was no accompanying information with the CDs that I was most generously given. Wizardmarra – Angus’ Boogie Jack Broadbent – Unknown title but a damn fine piece of playing Rob Heron and The Teapad Orchestra – Rich Man Now Sad Eyed Puffins – Space Case Chuck Fish – Indian Joe Molly Warburton and The Shady Days – Unknown title Olivia Fern – Continue reading The Grasmere Guzzler→

Track List Sean Taylor – London Stuart Forester – Bramble Foot Hot Feet – Wood House MuHa – Let’s Talk About The Weather Strangeworld – Green Loch-Bouree De Aurora Sands Wizardmarra – Song Of The Ganges 5 Days Of November – Breaking In The Middle The Fallows – Cast The First Stone Two Man Ting – African Gospel The Po Boys – (couldn’t quite catch the title) Wizardmarra – Sailing In The Mellow Fruitfulness Of Autumn Some festivals need to keep a constant process of re invention on a yearly basis, most need to have regular change to keep things Continue reading Totally OTT→

Life has just been so bloody complicated recently. this has resulted in my having to put what should ideally be at least two blog posts into one. Hopefully the skill and quality of the writing will easily brush over any cracks that the hastiness of this verbal cobbling caused. First of all the podcast and it’s all important track listing. Derek Ashong and Soulfege – Another Day Stuart Forrester – Gitonyosse Biggles Wartime Band – And Then She Kicked Me Your Average Savages – Feeling Bad Blue Wallpaper Inc – Funky Patch Kelly – St James Infirmary Calum Read – Continue reading NOT The Drystone Stage 2013→

A taster of what’s to come at Stainsby Festival 2013 Jack Payne and Leslie Sarony – Mucking About In The Garden FOS Brothers – Tipping It Up To Nancy Merry Hell – Crooked Man Jack Hodges – Everything Is Fresh Today Wizardmarra – Periwig The Hut People Jiggery Pipery Elbow Jane – The Devils Hand Tim O’Connor – Following Swans Chas Ambler – My City Home First off apologies for the quality on one or two tracks they are YouTube conversions and not studio quality, though the music is good. I’ll not say much about the acts that will be Continue reading The Pint In The Sky, Stainsby Festival Taster→

Here we are just a little later than intended, but I held fire on so I could combine acts from Off The Tracks with those from The Dock of the Bay minifest (the second smallest festival in the world, I have no idea which one is the smallest) and that Laurence my esteemed webmaster and I have been uploading all my podcast from past years since I started putting them together in 2008 (I’ve also enjoyed listening to them again myself, there is a hell of a lot of good stuff on there) you can find them all here. On Continue reading Who Needs A Pyramid!!? (when you have a Melodrome or a Barn)→

WIZARDMARRAS WIRELESS SHOW KING REAL AND THE HOODLUMS 30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL Intro – Marcel Steiner King Real Chant – Pete Moser & Cast Orchestre DC Dansette – Dancing Royal Property – Julie Clark & Marcel Steiner Blind As A Blizzard – Julie Lloyd Kafusalem/Smiffys Glass Eye – WSI/Dan Fox Dos Bauls – Aramenco Maximum Security Girls – Julie Lloyd/David Marcus/Alan Whittaker & Tom Lawrence Gaz Bridgens – The Bones Of Lady Thatcher Nothing – Tom Lawrence Camel March – WSI Bedlam Boys – Julie Clark & Cast Vision 2 – Kevin Wilkins Fire Music – Pez? Winster Gallop – WSI Continue reading Where it all began for me→

I decided it was time for a small change and so the podcast is no longer Wizardmarras Drystone Wireless Show merely Wizardmarras Wireless Show. I thought it was high time I ditched the Drystone altogether, no use hanging on to past glories that no longer have any relevance to the here and now. This also marks the first podcast episode and the first blog that can be accessed directly from wizardmarra.com, they’ll still be available from podmatic and blogger for the time being but in a month or two when any bugs that may surface have been ironed by my Continue reading All things must pass… Introducing Wizardmarras Wireless Show→

The majority of these acts appeared an the inaugural weekend of The Black Barn Stage at OFF THE TRACKS musical festival in September. Usual links to be found on my blog access it via my website www.wizardmarra.com BIGGLES WARTIME BAND – MIDNIGHT SPECIAL WIZARDMARRA – FORECAST ROUGHNECK RIOT – THIS IS OUR DAY THE BEEKEEPERS – DO YOU BEHAVE LIKE THIS AT HOME THE HANG PROJECT R CAJUN & THE ZYDECO BROTHERS – LA CREME DE FAIM. DREAM CIRCUIT – SOUL PLANTATION EARTHLING SOCIETY – THE GREEN MANALISHI FLORA GOLDEN – FLAMES YLEM LARSA WILLE & THE BANDITS – CHILLOUT Continue reading OTT BLACK BARN SPECIAL→

That’s what some would say as I sit here on my own while my good Ladymarra is partying on down at Solfest. Perhaps it is, but I don’t think so and I’m not entirely on my own as my good friend Jose is by my side and Snr Cuervo is such good fun, I may get philosophical or have a rant later, but for now it’s time for the annual fun that is Podcast…… ……and here it is! I had a LOT of fun putting it together and it enabled me to play some tracks by good people who I’ve Continue reading THE JOURNAL OF BILLY NO MATES→

OK, Here it is the first NUTS IN MAY SPECIAL podcast. Not every track on it is by someone appearing at the festival but I’ll tell you here who they are and in every subsequent podcast there will be more as they are announced. By the time the next one goes up the website for the festival will be fully up and running and not the “holding page” that you’ll see at present. Anyhow, here’s the running order for the current podcast… THE BOAT BAND – CUMBERLAND REEL THE POLYJESTERS – THOMAS BUILDER MISHAPED PEARLS – ODI EL AMO ACHISA Continue reading SQUIRRELKICKER→