VanJamboree to Carry on Dubbin and all in between.

Yo Dudes!

Hope your all had a wicked cool Bank holiday weekend.
I'm currently having a chill at Grand Chapel studios http://www.grandchapelstudios.co.uk after a pretty hectic couple of weeks festivaling, #pickledownunder planning, and chugging up, down, and round the country.

While I'm stationary for a bit I figured I'd better do a blog out before I leave it too long and can't remember whats gone down yesterday let alone a week or so ago.
So with the help of Zebby #studiodog here's whats gone on.

Zebby

Since T.O.M.I.E Ive been a bit all over the joint.
After dropping the boys back home to nurse their post VW festival heads, I made my way for a meet with the guys at Grand Chapel about doing some recording in June, to get a load more tunes down for you guys, a one day a month live session, and a fund raising gig in August for #apickledownunder.

Check out Abi's video of her One day a month session filmed by our friend Nick Kent of http://nickkentphotography.com

https://www.facebook.com/abimusicuk?ref=br_rs

This wonderful place has become some what of a haven for me in recent weeks and I have made a couple of outstanding friends.

There will be a very limited number of tickets for the fundraiser gig at Grand Chapel 'Prayers for a Pickle down under' but I'll keep you posted on all that Jazz.

The weekend commencing the 8th was a bit different for this time of year, gig packed but all in pubs dotted about.

For the last few months I've been hosting a night on the final Friday of every month at The Crown and Anchor in Chiswick http://www.crownandanchorchiswick.co.uk called #originalacoustics.

Its a night where myself and a few of my friends come down and share our original tunes with the good people of Chiswick, with a few covers thrown in there for good form, then the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Friday will be me or another artist all night.

This will be happening Friday coming so be sure to get involved!

Any way, plug done, thats where I was Friday May 8th.

Saturday took me to play in Watford for the first time at a joint called the Prince George.

Sunday was a real chilled one in West Ealing at the Duke of Kent, bang tidy roast, food generally served up here with a lot of the produce coming straight from the pub garden.

We like that!

#apickledownunder 1st fundraiser:

Wednesday Luke and I rocked up to the Insomnia warehouse to do the first fundraiser for the Oz project. A live streamed gig from the van to you cats at home, powered by stageit.com

I'd like to thank all of you that logged in to watch or listen for your support and I hope you enjoyed the experience of seeing me behave uncomfortably in front of a camera.

I believe we raised around £85 this time round, thats a good 300 odd miles down, We are certainly chipping away! 

The next Stageit gig is going down on September 16th so get your tickets now and tell all ya chums.

https://www.stageit.com/stage/46082

Vanjamboree to Dubs at the Park:

The weekend of the 15th of May means Vanjamboree, still one of my firm favourite veedub shows to play, although one of the most challenging as the party always seems to go on well in to the morning and the ale flows freely whether you want it or not.

We didn't roll up till gone dark and Vision Tech Beats were in full swing. With little point in attempting to set up in the black of night trying to find a power supply, we opted for parking Pickle in the middle of the field and having a play through the busking amp before people headed back to their vans.

In the Morning we got our spot and got ourselves set up leaving Luke to cook breakfast, maybe not the best idea.

 Give Luke a knife, he plays pirate.

 Drew, meaning business

 Luke shut it, I'm trying to sing.

Spence Gilroy, too cool for school.

It was a super chilled Saturday and big thanks to Jack (Spencers lad) for running round with the camera and grabbing the shots.

Night snuck in and after Vision tech had succeeded in making everyone bounce we got stuck in and it was fuuuun!

Here are a few shots from before and after the madness.

 Drew and Joe (Spencers other lad, and one of the coolest little dudes I've come across)

Jack's the guy with the board.

A clip of Drew playing fleetwood macs 'Landslide' 

The whole jolly continued through till about 5am, at which point it only seemed wise to get as packed down and loaded up as possible before grabbing a couple of hours and hitting the road down to Bracknell for Dubs at the Park.

Pete and all the gang at Vanjamboree, legends as always. sorry we couldn't stick around for the Sunday as well.

Now this when I realised for that attempting two festivals in one weekend is some what optimistic. especially when they're opposite ends of the country and you have a set at 13:00

Needless to say I was a tad late (not helped by running out of fuel on the M25)

This was my first year at Dubs at the Park and its a really cool vibe. Its a one dayer set at Easthampstead Park, put on by the London Thames Valley Volkswagen club with a big BBQ  traders, Live music, and plenty of tasty dubs to check out.

Although I was meant to be on their acoustic stage at 13:00 it turned out a little more like 14:15 and I must thank Wayne and the guys for switching sets round.

After the palaver of getting there It was just the right show to chill me out and continue to have an awesome day.

Back on the road:

Next show was due to be Carry on Dubbin up Wigan, Manchester way so I took to the road again and started making my way north.

I made a plan to call in on Mario and the guys at MV Engineering https://www.facebook.com/mvengineering in Telford, The team are going to be helping me get the van ready for 'A Pickle Down Under', and then I'd check out some places in the Shropshire area over the next couple of days.

By the time I got to Telford MV had already closed, but I though not to worry I find a quiet spot for tonight and swing by in the morning.

I'd noticed signs for a place called 'Ironbridge Gorge' and thought well that sounds pretty fantastic, must be worth a look, and it was only down the road.

Yea turned out it was well worth a look, a really beautiful little town just outside Telford built on the river Severn that is recognised as the birthplace of the industrial revolution.

Originally known as the Severn Gorge, it now takes it name from its amazing Iron bridge constructed in 1779 to connect the towns of Broseley and Madeley.

The town boomed during the Industrial period as the raw materials used to make Iron, Porcelain, and tiles were easily mined and then transported with ease given the width of the Severn. Its Iron Bridge was the first like it in the world and a monument to the Industry that began there.

Bit of history for ya, and if your in the area definitely go and visit.

After pottering about Ironbridge for the morning I left for MV. 
Mario and I spent a lot of the afternoon putting together a list of parts to get across to VW Heritage and an action plan to get Pickle ready for the trip in between the festivals.

So I've now purchased a new sliding door to replace the piece of crap thats currently on her, made up mostly of filler, we've booked in for a couple of intensive weeks in July for the Body work and I'm gonna get started on the suspension and lifting with my man Felix at Essex Park Motors.

After topping up the coolant and gear box oil I set of again to visit Shrewsbury.

Shrewsbury's a great town with a really vibing little music scene, there's something on somewhere every night and there's a pub on every corner, we like this.

Its a historic market town on the river severn with over 660 listed buildings and much of its medieval street plan unaltered.

I Parked just out of town, 10+ hours for £2.80 also very pleasing, and took a short walk in to see what the crack was with open mic and shiz.

I found a little pub called the Wheat Sheaf that coincidently had an open mic on that eve and they very kindly gave me a leaflet advertising everything that was going down over the next month.

I ended up playing there and then heading to the other side of town to a place called The Waterfront Bar with an open mic hosted by an artist called Andy O'Brien, an awesome friendly bloke, check his page out here https://www.facebook.com/pages/ANDY-OBRIEN-LIVE-AND-ACOUSTIC/222428009444 it was a quiet one but a lovely bunch down there.

I ended up having such a cool night that I stayed another day to do some busking and visit another open mic in the evening just outside town at a pub called the Old Dolphin.

The nights hosted by a lovely dude, Richard Benjamin and is a night of all kinds of performers and a really supportive audience that love to sing along, great place.

I also met a gent called Paul Henshaw https://www.facebook.com/pages/Paul-Henshaw-Music/132359153479559?fref=ts told me of a friend, a shrewsbury busker, songwriter, and poet, Ben Bebbington who was viciously attacked and died as a result in September 2012.

His Sisters have started a campaign to change the way people think about the homeless and as part of this campaign released one of Bens songs 'Alone in the crowd, my mate and me'

The following link is an itv news report on the campaign.

http://www.itv.com/news/central/update/2015-05-25/campaign-to-change-attitudes-towards-the-homeless-ben-bebbington-shrewsbury-ark-shropshire/

Please support #BensSong

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/alone-in-crowd-my-mate-me/id986783728

Carry on Dubbin:

After a grand couple of days exploring Shrewsbury it was off on the road again to get to Wigan for Carry on Dubbin, a new show for me.

Originally I was due to be playing Volkswagger show this weekend but after that cancelling I was stoked to be asked by Cathrin and the Carry on Dubbin team to come play.

I rolled in pretty early on the Friday to get set up and settled, and was allocated a nice little spot between some rugby posts, staging us nicely.

It took a while for the festival ground to get buzzing as it was very overcast and the air full of constant drizzle, not Ideal, luckily I had a tarp Spence had given me and the carry on team helped me erect a shelter using Pickles rack and the rugby poles.

When the rain finally subsided I thought I'll do a few tunes to let people know I'm here and that I'll be playing again later... a few tunes turned in to quite a lot of tunes. Always the way play a few, people come over at the last song, play a few more, more people come over for the last song, and the next thing you know you've been playing an hour or so.

As the eve drew in it dried up and the festival buzzed. I played through the evening on and off and Drew and his band mate Ben rocked up impressively late but we kept the night going with unplugged sing songs round the fire fuelled predominately by my new mate Martin 'Houseless, not Homeless' https://www.youtube.com/user/mooey65

 

Saturday was roasting hot so I thought we'll ditch the tarp and take to the roof.

We were joined by Owen Bolton, a young singer songwriter from the Wigan area in a great place and only 14.

Check out Owens Facebook Page here https://www.facebook.com/owenboltonuk/timeline  

Thanks for playing Bro!

We were also joined by Charlie Sherliker, a super talented dude that jumped in with guitar on a bunch of songs he's never heard before and added a very tidy flavour.

 Charlie Jamming on the rack with Drew.

Hope to see him popping up for a mesh at some more shows later in the season. Follow him on twitter here https://twitter.com/chazterdog

Peace Charlie!

A snippet of Drew and Ben doing Green eyes.

And thats how Carry on Dubbin Panned out for the rest of the Saturday, late in to the night until I took myself off to bed leaving Drew and the gang to entertain.

I did learn that morning in the pissing rain that no matter how goolooed I am, I must pack down and cover up my gear so it as speakers and heavy rain don't get on.

And now?

No festivals this weekend so knuckling down with #apickledownunder stuff.

Got my passport back from renewal so time to look at visa applications. 

I swung by to see Nick earlier to check in on how the Pickle Down Under Advert for the website is coming on and we're looking good.

Gotta go pick up the new sliding door from Essex in the next few days.

Drew, Luke, Josh and I will be sharing some tunes down at The Crown and Anchor in Chiswick again on Friday eve for the #originalacoustics night so please come along for the jolly.
http://www.crownandanchorchiswick.co.uk

My next VW festival is Dubs Mania, Weston Park so I hope to see some of you there. Just ordered some cool new baseball shirts, and posters that should all hopefully be ready for the show too.

Dudes, cheers very much for reading and all your support so far.

Oh and here's the second of my Infuse Insession at Grand Chapel Studios 'Silver Linining' Hope you like.

One Love x

SPRING WHAAAAAY!

Yo Dudes!
Long time again, I know, I'm sorry, I've been busy, and drunk a fair amount over the past grey months.
To pick up from Christmas, I finished up the rest of the Caffe Nero tour in Abi's little Corsa, not really my vibe but it got me to Norfolk and back and probably saved me a shed load in fuel. Cheers "Connie"

You will be pleased to know that  by about two thirds of the way through January I had received and fitted a new water pump on pickle and become mobile once again. A MASSIVE THANK YOU! to Abi's folks John and Chris for having me for the best part of a month, and to their friend Malcolm for the lone of his tools, assistance and guidance in the whole operation, couldn't have done it with out you.

Right Finley Quaye support gig at the Brixton Jamm.
AWESOME!
Solid blessings to all of you that made it down, I sincerely hope you had a blast cos I did. For all you who didn't it was packed out and vibe was great. 

Here's a few shots of the show:

 I got handed a rose, I was well flattered, then forgot I'd left it attached to the mic stand. Boo!

Oscar Golding (aka goatsy) real treat to play with this dude again, he was with me at the start of this whole adventure.

 Josh Roberts (The Sass) god knows what he'd seen in in that corner but there's loads of shots of him starring at it.

Mamma Dibb having a sing along. Good girl!

                           Luke Beirne, first show with us and what a ledge. well tasty guitarist.

 Yes I am the Goatsy!

In my last post I put in a link to a Balcony tv session I did with Janet, I have since kept in touch with the guys from the show and been back to record my own session with The Sass, and Luke Beirne accompanying me on a tune called "Haunted Minds" and here it is:

 


Hope you digged the new tune and I'd recommend subscribing to the balcony tv channel cos there's loads of cool new music going through there.
http://www.youtube.com/user/StephenORegan 
http://www.balconytv.com/ 
And of course my youtube channel if you've not already :D
www.youtube.com/tomdibbmusic

KEEP STREETS LIVE:
Keep streets live is an Organisation headed by a gent called Johnny Walker, campaigning against new busking laws in Camden criminalising street performance with out strict license and enforcing hefty fines of up to £1000 or confiscation of instruments.
http://keepstreetslive.com/
Believing in a lot of Johnny's argument and be it that street performing is what keeps me alive and on the road, Oscar and I went along one Sunday to get involved and show support.

Photos by Derreck Wess 
https://www.facebook.com/DJMWphotography

Since the fund raising busk keep streets live has taken Camden council to the high court but was unsuccessful in over throwing the new laws. None the less an appeal has been applied for and The Keep Streets Live army will continue fighting to keep life in our streets.

Bits n bobs:
Since then I've pretty much been pottering about making a nuisance of my self!
I have become fairly handy with a paint brush mind as I've been helping a friend up in Biggleswade get her shop looking fancy to open potentially next week. Here's the face book page for all you need to know about Adapt Design https://www.facebook.com/ADaptDesignLtd

With the new "Boy From Slough" EP releasing coming very soon I've visited a couple of radio studio's to have a chat and a play about what's gwannin.
On the 15th went for quick hang with Gareth Lloyd https://twitter.com/TheGarethLloyd at BBC3 counties on the BBC introducing show. Don't think the show is still available on iplayer but you may be able to have a gander at the live tracks http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01sjq3d

Also called in to see the team at Radio Lab again https://twitter.com/RadioLaB971fm and had a chill with Eleanor https://twitter.com/umbrellanor If you missed this no worries as It is my understanding it was all filmed and will be available to check out online in the not so distant future, and I will let you know when.

CALL TO ACTION:
 Now Then! Its Monday and I know you all got a full on working week a head but chin up kid the sun is bright and yep there's a frickinother EP out on the 31st March "BOY FROM SLOUGH". So in tradition of all EP releases so far we're gonna have a bit of a jolly at the end of the week to celebrate this new piece of recorded audio and the fact that is friday and you made it through another relentless week!
Here's the do! https://www.facebook.com/events/276440875852416/

Friday eve My self and the team will be at the O2 Academy Islington having our "Boy from Slough" launch gig. The night starts at 7pm with music from Bruges www.facebook.com/brugesband, Steve Violaris www.facebook.com/steveviolarismusic, Emmet Scanlan and what the good thought www.facebook.com/EmmetScanlanMusic, Sharks don't Swim www.facebook.com/SharksDontSwim, and Me and the boys will be on 9:30 pm.
Funny thing I realised after chatting to my buddy Pip, who was the bass player in the first band I joined "Kipdenooi" was that Islington academy was one of the first London venues we played almost 10 years ago in the front bar.
So I'm stoked to be returning and would really love you all to come get involved on the night.
Tickets are available through this link http://www.musicglue.com/tom-dibb/events/28-mar-14-o2-academy-islington-o2-academy-islington/ and I'm doing a ticket/ Signed Boy from slough CD bundle on there for £14. The EP is being released on Monday 31st on itunes, and Spotify but will not be released as a hard copy so the 28th is your only opportunity to grab a limited addition "Boy From Slough" CD!

TO COME: 
Got some sick dates in the pipe line set for this summer and I cant wait to get out and about in the sun doing some fresh camper van sessions and a whole new load of camper van recipes.
If your not going to be able to make Friday my next show is the 15th April at O2 Academy Oxford and looks like I may be heading out on a bit of a tour with a friend in June but will firm that up with you soon.
Keep up with tour dates at http://tomdibb.com/singer-songwriter.htm and I'm also hitting up a bunch of private shows this season so if you'd like me to come have a play in your garden or living room give me a holler on any of the following and we'll have a bit of a do.
https://www.facebook.com/TomDibbMusic 
http://tomdibb.fanbridge.com/ 
https://twitter.com/tomdibb 

Solid Blessings and hope to see you soon down the line.

Peace x

Tom 
 





  

Festivities!

Wow!
Bloody interesting old time this last month or so, up's, down's, and all rounds.
Where'd we leave off?

"My Inspiration" Video is out! Had a cool little sesh down at the Dog and Whistle in Hertford (http://www.dogandwhistlepub.co.uk) on the 15th December to screen it. I felt like crap and could barely growl a note, neither of the artists that were due to play rocked up and we had a right old time trying to set up the projector. None the less ABI (http://www.abiofficial.com) stepped up and played a last minute set for us, saving the eve, Janet (http://www.janetdevlin.com) jumped up and sang a track for us to, the video was well received, and I managed to grunt out a few tunes before totally loosing all vocal ability. It turned out to be a well cool jaunt and thanks to all who made it down and if you've not caught "My Inspiration" yet here it is, share about!

Shortly after I headed of to do The Winter Inspiration Tour and this was when it got real fruity.

On the eve of the 17th I busted one across to Abbergavenny so I'd be there in plenty of time for the show at Caffe Nero in the morning. Took a good 3 and a half hours as pickle was running like a buggered badger, but got there and got settled in what was a quiet lay bye at midnight, proved not so quiet at the crack of dawn when the vans shaking with all the heavy duty traffic storming passed.
I chugged my way in to town and parked up to load in.
It started to piss it down (I later established it does this an awful lot in the valleys)
There was a nice festive vibe in the Caffe and the staff were cool, it wasn't the busiest store in britain but the tunes were well received and Steve from BRFM had come down to say hi as after the show I was heading up to his studios to have a chat and a play.
Caffe Nero Abbergavenny, Taa very much for having me!

Next stop was BRfm Studios, I loaded up the old banger and slowly, really slowly climbed in to the valley's whilst being blown left right and centre by gales and wipers on full blast desperately attempting to regain some visibility through a waterfall of a windscreen.

I eventually I arrived at BRfm lakeside studio's and the best way to describe it is The Boat that Rocked, minus the boat. A really awesome bunch of guys all having a jolly and running a station for the love of it, I felt well at home and would highly recommend any artists, bands to call in if your ever that way, you'll be greeted with a brew and a smile.

http://www.brfm.co.uk/ 

Here's the pod cast of my chat with Stephen http://podcast.canstream.co.uk/brfm/audio/brfm_18-12-13_3-17_1387386001.mp3

I was gonna be crashing in the studio car park that night but as the wind and rain was relentless Angel, another DJ at BRfm invited me to come back to his mrs place and have a feed, a warm bed for the night and a shower in the morn which I gladly accepted and off we went to chill and drink whiskey till the early hours. This was to be my first experience of the legendary Welsh hospitality!

  Me and Angel, thanks for every thing man!

The view in the morning

After Angel dropping me back at Pickle I got going on day 2 of the tour, next stop Cardiff. Or not!

I got about 15 mins in to my journey and hit a pretty long hill, the heating light came on, Pickle was pissing out coolant all over the road.

I called the AA of which after this year they probably all know me by name and visa versa, made a sandwich and waited.

Derrick came to the rescue, wicked cool gent but unfortunately couldn't assist at road side but tightened my fan belt as it was whistling and towed me to Pontypridd to the nearest Halfords repair centre.

The guys faces sunk when Pickle arrived to be saved and I'm not surprised, how ever they said that they would have a look asap and figure out what we could do but I wasn't going any where fast. I called the next couple of Caffe's to make my apologies and Derrick asked if I needed a lift any where, As I had no where to go we bundled my busking gear in to his van and he dropped me in town to make my self useful.

A couple of hours and a few quid later Julian (halfords manager) gave me a holler to head back and see what's what.

what's what, was the bloody coolant flange had shat its self and this is a part that cant be sourced by any of halfords contractors. Balls!

Julian then goes and finds the part number, says that if I order the part they'll fit it, and He'll put my number plate on their car park register and I can stay there till we get it sorted (welsh hospitality). I went to the local Pub, Bunch Of Grapes, http://www.bunchofgrapes.org.uk/ just on the other side of my car park, to use the internet and have a jar, and what a local I had acquired.

8 or more local real ales, log burner, awesome staff, and patrons. 

It wasn't long before I'd got chatting away to Gareth at the bar and landed a gig for the following evening for the satisfying fee of beer and food.

The next day I ordered the part I needed from Just Kampers www.justkampers.com, thanks again dudes you've not let me down yet, then headed in to town again for a bit of a busk before the gig.

If your unfamiliar with Ponty its not a big town but is full of generosity, history, and character. The people are real friendly, often stopping for a chat, and there's a wicked indoor market with all kinds of jazz going.

I rocked up to the Bunch Of Grapes around 8 to set up and then played from 9 through the evening. The tunes were well recieved by a merry bunch of locals warming up for the fast approaching festivities, especially by a young student teacher who had some wonderful moves with my mic stand, Ha! she was funny.

I was fed a massive lamb burger and watered with jug upon jug of Otley ales only to then be handed a small brown envelope with a nifty inside. That night I met John and Julie who had recently moved in to the cottage down by the old Glamorganshire canal. During my set I'd been explaining why I was there and what had been going down so John and Julie have cone over after the show and offered up a proper roof over my head and a shower in the morning even though they had a house full already for the Christmas period and didn't know me from Adam (welsh hospitality).

I took them up on the shower alone as I was happy enough in the van overnight, I'd had more than a skin full and was well equipped with a top of the range booze blanket.

The next day I popped over to Johns for a shower and a coffee, and was then invited for Christmas day in the event I couldn't get the van sorted. A truly wonderful family! Thank you so much.
As I didn't make it to the Cardiff Nero's I thought I'd grab the busking bag hop on a train and go check out what goes down in Cardiff and try do a bit of christmas shopping.
Cardiff is awesome!
You've got old and new, its not too big nor too small and I made £120 in just over an hour so I will definitely be heading back that way.
After playing the rain set in and it really set in.
I headed back to the van and attempted to dry off and warm up when Rhodri came knocking. Rhodri is one of the guys that works at The Bunch, and had come by to see if I fancied going for a jar or 10.
Through out the night I discovered Rhodri is an independent film maker and is due to be releasing "The Valley of the Demon"later this year, so keep an eye out. Here's links to the trailer and the face book page.
https://www.facebook.com/ValleyofTheDemon?fref=ts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiXrNt4Y1dw
We had a cracking night discussing Ponty's history, film making and potential new productions before heading back out in to the storms and heading our separate ways with a belly full of beer providing disillusioned comfort in the cold wet early hours. 

The rain kept coming and the gales blowing, I found my self not only stranded in Wales but confined to a leaky van as well. It just wouldn't let up and I was getting fed up.
Every one had been awesome and I'd been able to keep busy but the weather was getting progressively more violent, I could see power cuts occurring and was really starting to question whether my part would arrive at all.
Sunday became Monday but fuck knows when as it barely got brighter and there was still no sign of  my delivery.
I spent most the day sat in the Halfords reception room drinking coffee and chatting to Julian about the hopes for the New year and future in general, waiting for the part to arrive and to see if there was a chance the guys may get Pickle up on the ramp that day.
The parcel came, it had been delivered to the Halfords store on the other side of the building, never the less it seemed everyone wanted their vehicles sorting before Christmas and the boys were to busy to sort the van.
I went to The Bunch for what was potentially my last night in Pontypridd to try and dry some of my gear by the fire.

This turned in to another Jolly!
It only seemed appropriate as it was with a bit of luck my last eve, rude not to right?
Then the power went... in the whole valley. It was off for about a half hour and the remaining three of us in the pub were starting to make ourselves comfortable with the acceptance that we may as well ride it through there as it may not be resolved before Christmas in which case I was gonna be taking John and Julie up on their invite.
The power came back on after an hour or so, still hope.

First thing Carl came to put the van on the ramp and away he went,with in a bout 40 minutes he'd demolished the old flange, as it and all the bolts were so corroded, and got the new one in and all hosed up.
He bled the cooling system, checked tyre pressure, and made sure all was cool to hit the road. It appeared we had won!
I went to see Julian to sort out paperwork and see what I owed and whether any of it could be covered by the AA repair cover. Julian presented me with an invoice totalling a whopping £0 with a message from him and the boys wishing me a Merry Christmas and all success with my music in the future.
Bugger almost had me in tears!

Carl, Julian, me, Mike, and Alan

Dudes I can not thank you enough!

The bad news is that some little fucker nicked my skate board from under the van on the Sunday and when I got to Harpenden the heating light came on again, Pickle sounds like a whining tractor and I need a new water pump.

 

I would like to state this had nothing what so ever to do with Halfords, just a fan belt that was too tight.

The good news is that I made it to Abi's https://www.facebook.com/abimusicuk for Christmas and met some of the most genuinely good, generous, and hospitable people I have ever come across!

Happy New Year every one! I've got some great stuff to come this year and I'm really stoked!
Firstly me and the band have got our first London gig on the 31st January at The Brixton Jamm supporting the awesome Finley Quay! Get your tickets soon cos its gonna be a sick night.
Heres the facebook event share it about.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1405720716339920/

Here' a couple of other things to check out:
My new online shop  http://www.musicglue.com/tom-dibb/shop/
Me accompanying Janet Devlin singing "Delicate" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJrQMXheAyo

A massive thank you to all for your support in 2013, it was a big jump for me and could have been a lot more difficult if I'd not had the help I have from the people I've met.
Solid blessings x

Special thanks to Derrick from the AA, Gareth and the team at The Bunch Of Grapes, John and Julie, Rhodri, Steve, Angel and all at BRfm, and Julian, Carl, Mike, and Alan at Pontypridd Halfords.

Peace x