We had a good blether about making the new Shooglenifty album Acid Croft Volume 9 with our producer Andy Bell, who has put it on his...

During the last few months, Dawn and I have spent time on daily walks and an idea began to take hold. Could we create an online...

I recorded a soundtrack for a short film that my wife Dawn Hartley created for her Dancebase R&D residency. She asked all of the dancers...

Shooglenifty have been busy videoing ourselves again here there and everywhere. In other words we are all making our own individual...

I’ve learned new things about communicating and using new technology while working online since the lockdown started. In the past, I’ve...

I am in full support of the black lives matter movement. I can only hope that the protests over the murder of George Floyd will lead to...

I have been doing a bit of recording and have actually tidied up my studio which is the brown shed in the photo. It looks quite good on...

Dawn and I have been going out for a walk every day since the social distancing rules came in. We usually try and go for a walk anyway,...

Space Time is the residency run by Magnetic North Theatre that I attended last week. I was back in Findhorn again where I took this photo...

It was a snowy drive up the A9 to Forres and then on to the Universal Hall near Findhorn. Shooglenifty's last gig here was four years ago...

There is actually another sign just out of shot telling all visitors to John O Groats that they are compelled to take a photo like this...

My friend Hazel Terry https://www.hazelterry.com/ sent me some treasure she found on the beach to inspire me. She has done this for 50...

Some extraordinary things happened in 2019 for me. In early May I walked from Lochinver to Clachtoll with Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach....

The obvious resolution for 2020 is to actually write stuff in my blog. A lot of things happened at the end of 2019 and Shooglenifty...

The light woke me up very early today. I am looking out across the Tay from Newburgh. The river is blue and gold from the reflections in...