T is for Tribute Acts, an integral part of the concept of Dead Man Singing. I have a confession to make: I have never seen an actual tribute act live. I’ve never quite got over the idea that a tribute act is a pale imitation of the real thing, a facsimile rather than the original, a lesser ent...

The ‘Your memories’ feature on Facebook reminded me of a post I made a few years ago, responding to a challenge to list one album from each decade from the 1960s through to 2010s – not necessarily the best album of the decade, just a personal favourite. My selection (made in 2020) ...

S is for Stirling University, which crops up in Dead Man Singing as part of the Dave ReMastered Band’s string of Scottish dates. I was a student at Stirling in the period covered by the book, and went to numerous gigs at the on-campus McRobert Theatre (the ‘McBob’), as well as othe...

Good things come in threes, and this week I had three musical outings. First off was my regular Monday trip to Conrad Barr’s Solid Air night at Chaplin’s in Boscombe. Two of the three acts were people I’ve seen before and enjoyed – Louis Massey, going from strength to strengt...

R is for the Road. Tour bus conversations between Dave and his band-mates play a big part in Dead Man Singing. They offered the opportunity to shoe-horn in additional musical references which, as I’ve said before, were always carefully and deliberately chosen. Some of them – mostly Dink&...