James Walsh

Hi Folks,

First of all consider my wrists slapped for not writing a blog in such a long time!

I’m currently in the middle of the Hard Rock Cafe ‘Simply Acoustic’ tour with my good friend Ben Montague.

So far its been great. There’s been a good mix of our existing fans and also a few who have come away as fans having popped in for a burger which is what its all about really. The UK gigs in London,Manchester and Edinburgh were great. Edinburgh was a nice intimate Thursday night show. Manchester was more of a friday night party vibe with a few choice covers coming out.(Ben got the crowd going with ‘Use Somebody’ and ‘Summer of 69′).
Then it was off into Europe. I watched the film ‘Anvil’ about a long forgotten but influential Heavy Rock band on their calamitous comeback tour. It felt a bit like that when we arrived at the Brussels cafe to find there was no sound engineer and we had to work out the gear for ourselves. Took us both back to our days playing pubs and we still had a great gig in the end. Ben flew back to do a gig and I carried onto Amsterdam.

We had already ear marked Amsterdam as the night to ‘let our hair down’ with just a travel day to Berlin lined up for the next day. I think Ben would agree Amsterdam was the best show of the tour so far and we celebrated long into the night finally finding ourselves at a blues bar with the guitarist on a long lead weaving through the crowd during a solo! Thanks to Clare and her team at HRC Amsterdam for looking after us so well. So here we are in Berlin getting an early night in preparation for the show tomorrow the hangovers finally starting to ease.

Special thanks to Solo Agency and Hard Rock Cafe for organising the tour

See You Soon
James W