I’m looking forward with nervous anticipation to being back on stage at the Swansea Grand Theatre on Monday evening. I know I’ll be there with a room full of friends and I don’t just mean the musicians and singers who will be joining me on stage.
Maybe instead of bobbing for apples or going trick or treating I might pop down to Moriah Chapel and think once again of the visionary boy who really did light a fire that went all around the world.
A week spent with Saints David, Peter and Paul. It seems we will do everything to mark this time of year but not actually talk about the central issue that one day we will be gone
Swansea city centre is going through lots of changes. Swansea Minster, or St Mary’s has always had a role to play never more so than now. This month the whole world comes to Our Town.
‘Not every lion that chases an antelope catches an antelope,
but you can guarantee every lion that catches an antelope was chasing an antelope.’
Sometimes people who read musical notation can make those of us who don’t feel a little inadequate. It’s as if we are not proper musicians after all. John Davies was a master craftsman. He could sight read anything and everything. He was also just a lovely man. Not only was he understanding he was encouraging and life affirming
There is now a Television Aladdin’s Cave available to search right on your doorstep.
On 911 we were recording an album. We knew that day had changed the world. Every year on the anniversary, wherever we were in the world, we would check in with each other and remember. This year there was no phone call…
We go into tonight’s game against Wrexham with the whole world watching. This is a worldwide sporting event. I’ve had 2 very special rides to the top with Swansea City. It couldn’t happen 3 times in my lifetime…could it?
It won’t be long until we notice the nights drawing in and the shops will be full of tinsel and sleigh bells. Human beings have an extraordinary ability to forget some of the bad bits of the past and only remember the good times. Before long the struggles we faced with extreme heat will start to disappear and what will be left is the warm glowing memory of the summer of 26.
