She Is Rain

A simple love song - elemental affirmations - a soul mate - an anchor.
When joy can become tears - tears can become joy.
At the point of bursting when you can't quite believe your luck.
So you whisper it quietly when you really want to shout it out loud, for fear of someone tapping you on the shoulder and saying 'nah, it ain't for you mate'.

Live In Session on Radio Tircoed

I will be playinjg live in session on Radio Tircoed's the Acoustic Programme this Friday evening - 20th January 2012.
The show is presented by Stu Loosemoore and Andy Boyt and will be on 8pm-10pm UK time.
You can listen on-line:
Radio Tircoed
Just go to the site and click the 'Listen Live' tab.

Beautiful comment from Cheryl Beer

This is what the most wonderful Cheryl Beer had to say about my performance at the Cellar Bar open mic night on Thursday.
I am conpletely humbled.
"Saw Steve playing live with just his acoustic guitar at an Open Mic night at the Cellar Bar in Cardigan last thursday night and the hairs stood up on the back of my neck ... so moving to watch such a beautifully quiet and unassuming man fill the room with his innermost soul :)"

Here is Cheryl's webpage:
Cheryl Beer

And her page on Facebook:
Cheryl Beer on Facebook

Live at The Cellar Bar, Cardigan

Shock, horror !
I played five songs at the Cellar Bar, Cardigan last night:
Sights & Sounds, Four Horsemen, On Your Own, Suburban Villa and Ne Plus Ultra.
Listen to On Your Own below - although it is not 'live' as advertised. Hmmmm

A Walk Through The Paris Metro

From my friend, the wonderful French singer Emma Mory - the video features Emma with her daughter Camille-Molly on a journey through the Paris Metro. The accordion music is by Patrick Houdusse.

Listen to the songs of Emma Mory:
Emma's songs on YouTube

Enjoy !!!

Just imagine

The people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

Occupy Wall Street

It's the economy stupid !

Cameron was it again yesterday.

Blaming the country's present economic problems on profligate spending by the previous government. 

No, no, no. A thousand times no.

Spending under the previous government was neither spectacularly high nor spectacularly low - broadly it was on a par with Lady Thatcher's Conservative administrations. In short it was affordable and when he was in opposition Cameron pledged to match the spending until 2010.

No, our present difficulties were caused primarily by the recklessness of the banks and other financial markets and institutions.

We now suffering cuts because the country bailed out the banks. That is why we have such a large deficit - and to address another lie - it is not at an historic high, even for peace time.

The problem is that Cameron has reversed the growth policies of the previous government with the result that growth has flat lined, inflation is rising and so is unemployment.

In the first few days of its administration the coalition scared the living daylights out of consumers by raising the prospect that we could end up as another Greece - not only did this destroy consumer confidence it was also utter twaddle. 

Greek debt, as a perecentage of GDP, is over twice the size of ours - and Greek borrowing is through high interest, short term, loans whilst ours has always been at lower rates over much longer periods. There was never the remotest possibility that we would go the same way as Greece.

However, we now have the worst of all worlds - a stagnating domestic economy, a European financial crisis and a struggling economy in the States.

Where, pray, is the growth supposed to come from ?

Yet the British public, in its infinite stupidity, still thinks that Cameron is the best person to deal with our economic situation.

Pah, let's see if that holds when the cuts really start to bite next April.

Steve Kelly 6th October 2011.
Review of the speech in The Guardian