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As the music industry changes, it seems the rule book on venues has gone out the window. Everything and anything is a potential venue these days and I've played in front rooms, chapels and churches, a few intimate fireside gigs under the stars, a raw food festival, a sauna to a completely naked audience and an ex-nun's convent, to name a few. The thirst for live music is alive and well! 

I'm currently on the road, travelling through England, playing some of my favourite festivals and shows. Having not owned a car for 10 years, I'm now driving around in a giant Renault Espace. I've taken all the seats out the back, added a double futon mattress, bedding and lighting... very cosy indeed. It's an experiment in living from a vehicle and living simply. So far, so good.

Glastonbury still has a magical energy...even the mud couldn't take that away. There are some amazing spectacles to behold on a huge scale. Fireworks from the hill, a sea of mobile phone lights at a night-time concert, the pure thrill of seeing a much loved artist walk out on a stage right in front of you to start a set. There are small oases of calm in the healing fields, tibetan monks on an afternoon stroll, sea buckthorn served with apple juice, street performers and buskers, choirs of voices by the stone circles and fields of medieval crafts...the potters and the blacksmiths tinkering away. There was definitely something very primal, creative and communal, still in the air…

Many people have been asking how the 'Nameless' video was made.

It was shot in some woods near Lenwade in Norfolk. The land is owned by a friend of mine, Kathy, and I have visited many times to camp, canoe and explore the paraphernalia that rests there in strange old wooden shacks and barns. In that sense, we didn't have to 'dress' the scenes at all...it's all as you see it on the video.