In days of old when dentists lacked medical qualifications - violins and pliers came in handy. The tale of Yiannis Pipis a Cyprus Legend and World Record Breaker
Touring the USA in 2004 and playing at The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival - a long rant means a short set...
The things that make you go...yuuuuck....
When Pierettis met The Vragaman by the beach.
How a kitten changes names following revelations by modern veterinary science.
A reflection on The Daily Chiofta journey and spontaneity - the rat, the cat and the dog...go to the good...
Politics with a big p is like an open sewer.
Memories of an oppressive school going through its own schizophrenic identity phase.
I went to MIDEM once in the late 1990s. This is the annual music gathering in Cannes, France and was full of coincidences for me.
2 important parts of our ethnic 60s and 70s TV diet...
A few thoughts on the most famous book on Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell.
My truck Sotiroulla is a double cabin and a saviour.
My life long love for a worldwide music that started in Jamaica...
A place deep in the heart of Nicosia old that I love to play at and some thoughts on people and places that just don't understand Reggae.
One of my life long passions...Radio...
A very special place in Gialia. A musician's utopia.
11th May 1981 is a sad day for music worldwide. The day Bob Marley died, I heard the news on a sound system at Essex University.
Around 1975 my brother George got a Skoda Coupe. Taking it for a first spin, excuse the pun, the rest as they say is history...
Living through a riot in a chippy, Liverpool 1981.
Riders are those things bands get before gigs. The more famous a band is the more elaborate the rider. Jeff Trump my drummer brother from San Francisco is an imaginative rider architect!
Names mean so much to us...we carry them for life...
Early 90s I interviewed Shaggy 3 times. Entertaining, clever and a total prankster!
Collecting records from age 14 I encountered a man in a shop who constantly called me John.
A powerful drink from Greece once taught me a simple lesson in life...Don't DJ when drunk!
My take on gigs that might go wrong...
My Saturdays....Greek School
Teaching Ithaka by Kavafy as told by Sean Connery...
The sirens wail again...
A collection of mini chioftes on things that happened during gigs in Cyprus.
The illegal industry in Cyprus that affected many musical careers.
