Where I’m going.
I’m currently working on a follow up to “Bringing it all back home”, early stages yet but I’m pleased with what’s coming out. Where the last book had a musical pulse running though it, I think this one is going to dip into folk memory and even fairy stories, a sort of modern, urban Brothers Grimm. It’s working title is “A head like a toy box.”
I want to carry on with the TV presenting, the workshopping, the talks and lectures and also move more into performing stories live. I helped to compère the Chumbawamba show at the City Varieties Theatre in Leeds earlier this year and enjoyed it a lot.
I need to move more towards music and I will continue to collaborate. I want to sing, I have a voice like a corncrake, but you know what they say about practice!
Our daughter Billie was killed in a terrible canoeing accident in 2006, Heather and me lost a beautiful and talented daughter and Edward lost his twin sister. In the immediate aftermath we set up a trust called Billie’s Violin. Billie had been a budding violinist. Our intention is for the next ten years is to buy musical instruments for local junior school children. Our Billie will never realise her ambition of playing her violin at Cambridge Folk Festival, but a kid from our neighbourhood might do it for her and that would make us proud.
If you would like to make a donation to the charity, please send cheques to Billie's Violin Trust, and post them to Route, PO Box 167, Pontefract, WF8 4WW.
