Tom Kerswill

The Guardian’s new blog reveals how Yahoo are testing a new Creative Commons search engine. Creative commons licenses allow listeners to download music for free - and modify it too, as long as they don’t then sell the music or pass it off as their own. It’s a good thing for musicians, and worth considering if you’re unsigned and want to reach a wider audience. A stark contrast to the DRM models of Microsoft and Apple Itunes, which aim to stop people listening to or sharing music unless they’ve paid for the privilege.

I’ve had quite a productive afternoon laying down some more vocals for Early Morning Blues in Exeter with Peter from Tunerise. Very soon I’ll have some new tracks up on the main page of the site… It’s all sounding quite cool!

Had a really great session with Lee (bass) and Gavin (djembe) in Plymouth on Monday. After doing an afternoon’s rehearsing, we went on the search for places to play in Plymouth. We must have toured round the city for over an hour trying to find venues… I now know my way around Plymouth much better. And I’m getting to like it too. Just as it was nearing closing time, we found the Jazz Bar near Mutley plain. It turned out to be a great venue - and the open mic only started at 11pm, so we were actually early.

We played a set of six songs. The set went down really well - lots of people came up afterwards and said they had enjoyed it. Also there were a few other good musicians, including a girl called Rose who had a fantastic voice and sang a track by Air. I had to disappear quite early get the train back to Totnes. Wished I could have stayed longer. Ended up missing the train anyway - I thought it left at 12.50am but… erm maybe I got that wrong! So I ended up staying at Lee’s spare room and getting a lift back to Totnes at 7.30am with Mel, who works in Torquay. I’m not normally up at that time

So, the reggae gig at Tramp’s café turned out to be really good, though things only got going around about midnight. Tramp’s is slightly strange venue - it’s built into the 70s monolithic bus station - prefab, but nice inside if a little brightly coloured!

This morning I got up (with a slight hangover) and took a tiny train from Plymouth Station up towards Dartmoor and a small village called Bere Alston. The journey is pretty magnificent - takes you over loads of huge viaducts and follows the water up from Plymouth as it goes from estuary to river. There are only two or three trains a day, and when it gets to certain stations, the driver has to get out of the train and change the points himself. Kind of fun!

So it’s been a nice and relaxed Sunday - this is a good thing as it’s been quite a crazy week. I haven’t had all that much time to do music and guitar playing today… and tomorrow I’m heading back into Plymouth to do more rehearsals with Lee and Gavin, and hopefully find somewhere to play in the evening.

I think I’m finally going to follow up on my article on cutting a record and err… well, cut a record. It would be pretty fun to make a 7-inch single of the collaborative production My Mind’s Eye*.

I think it was a DJ set at the Dartington student bar that made me start thinking seriously about this… there was a really talented DJ playing there on Friday evening and I thought it would be quite cool travelling to clubs with a few 7-inch singles in my pocket and slip a copy to the DJ at an opportune moment….

… Anyway, if you like the sound of the new stuff, we’re bringing out an EP which features a selection - including My Mind’s Eye - in a month’s time. I’ll keep you posted…

* Note: My Mind’s Eye, ©2005. Written by Tom Kerswill. Guitars, vocals Tom Kerswill. Keyboards / programming Tunerise. Produced by Tunerise.

I didn’t actually make it to the Exeter Phoenix gig last night unfortunately… mainly due to the challenges of public transport late at night - last train back would have been 11.08… not quite late enough to stay for the whole gig. Also quite a few of my friends are disappearing off home for Easter - so last night was kind of the last opportunity to see some of them for a while.

However…. highly recommended tonight is the Foundation Crew, playing at Tramp’s Café in Plymouth, 8pm, March 19th. I’m heading off to Dartmoor on the train now… it’s a beautiful day. Going to a small village called Bere Alston for a website meeting but also hopefully will be able to get a bit of walking on the moors in there too. Then I’ll get the train from there down to Plymouth tonight to see the gig. Before finally wending my way back to Totnes on a late-night national express coach. It does sometimes worry me how much faith I put in transportdirect.info… I can sort of imagine turning up at 11.45 at the coach station to find that the service doesn’t actually exist… hasn’t let me down yet though!

Foundation Crew are a Plymouth-based roots reggae band. It’ll be a really good evening - a chance to see the band in a small and intimate venue before they go onto bigger things.

I very almost had an evening of culture and beautiful music in Plymouth (yes, that is possible, apparently…) tonight. I was going to travel down to the Phoenix where Seth Lakeman is playing. However St. Patrick’s day in Totnes somehow sounds even more appealing… Anyway, if you are going for culture over revelling, then do head to the Phoenix - it promises to be a great gig.

Also worth checking out are some of the fantastic concerts in Exeter put on as part of the Vibraphonic festival. In particular, tomorrow (Friday) night at the Exeter Phoenix sees a concert from Nils Petter Molvær - a breathtaking blend of, well, everything really - jazz, house, breakbeat to name a few. Hopefully I’ll be there!

I did a 5-song set at Plymouth student union on Monday, accompanied by Peter Farrie on keyboards and Lee Stone on bass. It was the first time the two had met, and we had a really productive rehearsal during the day, before heading off to the union for about 9. It was really cool to be working with two great musicians, and the gig went very well. It was pretty full in there by the time we went on stage and everyone seemed to enjoy it. It makes a good change from me just doing my acoustic guitar thing - and it’s a huge amount of fun too! Looking forward to doing more gigs like this…

Glastonbury assembly rooms on Tuesday couldn’t have been more different. No microphones in sight, just a lovely cafe venue and lots of people just up for having a relaxing night of music. The idea is you just turn up, bring instruments and have a jam or play songs. I played five of my own songs, accompanied by lots of weird and wonderful instruments, including some acoustic guitars, an assortment of flutes, a triangle, and an instrument played with the thumbs that looks a little like a music box. I think from seeing one before that they’re from Zimbabwe and are called umbiras. But I might be completely wrong!

There were some amazing musicians there, and every performance was very different from the next. The umbira player also did some performance poetry, plus one of the organisers, Tim Hall, played some of his own songs which are really beautiful… I really want to see if he’s got any of them recorded as they’re the kind of songs you want to listen to again. There was also a girl called Mairead (I think) who had a lovely voice and played a really nice song on the guitar. So all-in-all a great night. It’s every Tuesday at the Glastonbury Assembly Rooms. Highly recommended to anyone who wants a relaxing night with lots of beautiful music!

I’ll be at a really relaxed acoustic night in Glastonbury Assembly Rooms on Tuesday 15th March. It basically involves assorted musicians sitting on a big sofa and playing their own songs. And a bar that sells fantastic cider if I remember rightly! So it’ll be a chance to hear lots of good acoustic stuff. More info at Glastonbury Music and Glastonbury Assembly Rooms

Catch a live performance featuring guitars, keyboards, djembe and bass on Monday at plymouth university. Should be fun..

Just done a really cool gig with Substation at the Bac Bar in Plymouth. It’s a great venue, although a little small for a 6 piece band! Really enjoyed the other bands, and the night is still going strong here with some very good dj sets. Am now very optimistic about the Plymouth music scene. There *is* a scene here outside the Phoenix, and it looks promising!

You can catch us live at the Angel, Exeter, 11.15 tonight - and live at the angel website (see news item below). By the way, this is my first "moblog " which apparently means a message posted from a mobile phone… Modern technology eh!

A chance to catch three of the new songs with TuneRise tonight (Thursday, 10th March), from 9.00pm at the Angel. If you’ve got a PC with ActiveX then apparently you can watch the whole thing live at http://www.angelexeter.co.uk … But they seem to have neglected us people who use Macs or Linux …. all I get is an empty screen. Might be worth a try though… Or come and see us there - it’s free!

There’s a chance to hear live performances of some of the new material I’ve been working on with producer TuneRise. You’ll be able to hear new version of Early Morning Blues and My Mind’s Eye, plus one more yet to be decided on - possibly my new song Amber Smile. This is at the Three Fat Fish open mic, Exeter, from 7.30 on Monday 7th March. And watch this space for more gigs coming up.Videos peeing Mädchen underware inPersisch HandjobsMinderjährige art nudehairy pics Mariamin sarees Mädchen nassenMädchen teen nackt MinderjährigeDamen asain NudeDivas Big hairy Map