happy christmas

happy christmas. 

here is a christmas album free to download freely recorded from my reunited first band dih with an ever increasing number of friends.

http://archive.org/details/DihAndFriendsChristmas2012

Christmas Present thank you letter from Snow White

Dear Dopey and the rest

of my six, lovely little friends

this is just a tiny note

just to let you know

while i was here

and you were gone,

I just wanted to thank you

for your Christmas Present,  

but while I was here

and you were gone

I just wanted

to let you know

you had left the price tag on,

nobody had replaced

the burnt out old fuse

nor the plug which looked like

if it had been left there

much longercould have melted

the wrapping paper.

I am a little stunned

it looked likesomebody had already used it

and worse still

didn't bothered cleaning it

when they had finished

with it

or bothered drying out

the instructions. 

I cannot believe

another name is quite visible

underneath my name

and my address is nothing

like Snow White's Pleasure doTN22 3NJ. 

I am blazingthe wrapping paper

looked like it had being

half ripped open

which made me think

somebody messed

around with it

last christmas

and thought to themselves

there is no f**king way

I am keeping that

and I'll recycle it

to some other sod

the following year. 

So while this is just a note

while I was here

and you were gone,

I would like to say thank you

for your gift

of a hedge trimmer, 

and would just let know

in addition

that the used blow up reindeer doll

you also sent

has being returned

to Santa Claus

and he's coming

round to yours

to kick the Sh*t out of you later 

Love Snow White 

Dockyard Prayer Part II (New Poem)

Dear all;

Here is Part 2 of Dockyard Prayer, the new sequence me and Jeff Dawson (aka Jeffarama!)
have been writing.

It can be read here 

Enjoy!

Andy N

If the art galleries shut (new poem published)

Dear all;

As some of you may know, I have been going to Write Out Loud - Stockport for a bit now and have been concerned about the possible closure to this (or the shortening of hours).

As a member of Stockport, we got together to produce a ebook to send round to a number of the local press to highlight this.

My Poem can for this be can read here

A Dockyard Prayer Part 1 (New Poem)

Me and Jeff Dawson (aka Jeffarama!) have released the first part of a new sequence
of poetry 'A Dockyard Prayer' Part 1.

It can be read here

Hope you enjoy!

latest news and views 21st November 2012

Hi all;

Hope you are all enjoying this sink into Winter.

Not a great deal going for me at the moment as most of my spare time outside work is getting ready for Christmas really with Cathy and my family, but some little bits of news in bite sized chunks:

1)     At the end of October @ Acoustic Wednesdays in Manchester. Me, Jeff and Petrova aka A Means to an End played our last gig for the foreseeable future there, debuting two new songs ‘Dead to me’ and ‘Return to Kemptown’ and loads of our old classics (Links to follow) and had a great time in a respectful, quiet night. Will defo want to play there again in the new year. A new gig is pencilled in for March 2013 at Open Mind and I guess we’ll squeeze something else before that too.

2)     I did Guitar and verse in November replaying a old poem ‘Ghosts of Manchester Victoria’ and with pre programmed musical backing ‘Kemptown’ (2012 Mix) (Links to follow also) and also debuted again ‘Migration’ to Write Out Loud, Stockport a few weeks later again.

3)     I have also carried (sadly without Amanda this month) at my writing workshop ‘Writers of the third kind’ and am making plans for that as I type also for next year. (Watch this space).

4)     Sadly as some of you already now, my charity book I am going to run with my partner, Cathy ‘Unique, Driven and Determined’ has hit big problems with one of the charities we were going to support has now finished off and the other is up in the air too. Cathy is going to think over Christmas about what to do and hopefully after Christmas, maybe February time we can start planning for what we can do next.

5)     My next poetry collection ‘The End of Summer’ (and maybe last full length) is coming together slowly. I currently have I think 43 or so possible poems towards it. When I have a few more, I can then getting the best of them together for it.

live pictures solo and with a means to an end october / november 2012

A Means to an End - live acoustic wednesdays, manchester october 2012

Andy N live at guitar and verse, november 2012