Folky folky

I seem to be overdosing a bit on folk at the moment. Went to see Pierre Bensusan last week at The Half Moon in Putney and was pretty impressed. He does some crazily skilled stuff in DADGAD tuning and somehow manages to be quite free flowing and loose in his playing style without being sloppy. Anyway I could have listened to him for hours, and he's amusing in between songs which is always a bonus! *Strong French accent* "All your politicians are leaving, I wish ours would do the same".

As if that wasn't enough I was at a barn dance on Saturday with a good local band called The Green Band, unfortunately it may have been the last time they play together. I get the impression folk bands may die out a little bit unless there are more young people into the music than I realise. I mean how many people start a folk band at uni? Rock/pop bands yes, jazz bands yes and a fair few string quartets etc. but no ukelele band. Well I need to get some rock gigs sorted before I become too obsessed with folk. In the meantime here's a picture of the man himself with his new Irish made guitar (courtesy of Markus due to the fact I was still learning how to use my new camera phone and consequently taking crap photos)...