In days of old when dentists lacked medical qualifications - violins and pliers came in handy. The tale of Yiannis Pipis a Cyprus Legend and World Record Breaker

Touring the USA in 2004 and playing at The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival - a long rant means a short set...

The things that make you go...yuuuuck....

When Pierettis met The Vragaman by the beach.

How a kitten changes names following revelations by modern veterinary science.

A reflection on The Daily Chiofta journey and spontaneity - the rat, the cat and the dog...go to the good...

Politics with a big p is like an open sewer.

Memories of an oppressive school going through its own schizophrenic identity phase.

I went to MIDEM once in the late 1990s. This is the annual music gathering in Cannes, France and was full of coincidences for me.

2 important parts of our ethnic 60s and 70s TV diet...

A few thoughts on the most famous book on Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell.

My truck Sotiroulla is a double cabin and a saviour.

My life long love for a worldwide music that started in Jamaica...

A place deep in the heart of Nicosia old that I love to play at and some thoughts on people and places that just don't understand Reggae.

One of my life long passions...Radio...

A very special place in Gialia. A musician's utopia.

11th May 1981 is a sad day for music worldwide. The day Bob Marley died, I heard the news on a sound system at Essex University.

Around 1975 my brother George got a Skoda Coupe. Taking it for a first spin, excuse the pun, the rest as they say is history...

Living through a riot in a chippy, Liverpool 1981.

Riders are those things bands get before gigs. The more famous a band is the more elaborate the rider. Jeff Trump my drummer brother from San Francisco is an imaginative rider architect!