Photo by Barbara Marciniak. In the early days of my relationship with Jodi, who I would later marry, we were so caught up in each other...

In the couple of years prior to my adventures with The Jesus and Mary Chain, I’d set myself up as booking agent and promoter. This came...

The Mary Chain was booked to play a show in Rome last week. I was excited to see the city for the first time. I’d visited the north of...

The first Mary Chain performance of 2018 was to be on a late night chat show in Moscow-the Russian equivalent of The Late Show with...

It’s summer 2006 and I’m about to set off on tour with a Canadian band named Controller.Controller. They’re a five piece from Ontario and...

It’s exactly one week since the blowout on the road to Prague which resulted in my car being towed off into the hinterland never to be...

The path takes us on a long, uphill journey to a sleepy commuter town where we discover that every shop, cafe and restaurant is closed...

It’s the middle of June, 2005. I’m currently playing bass on tour with Ox, an indie band from Sudbury, Ontario. We’ve played twenty-five...

January, 2007 I’m in London to play a solo acoustic set at a pub not far from Notting Hill Gate. It’s a damp, chilly night and the...