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Update April 2026

This year is getting a little busier with regular dates at Castle Park in Frodsham - a simply lovely arts centre with cafe and gallery - and a few folk club dates rolling in.....and a new band! or, at least, a new name for my duo with old comrade in arms Adrian Dear. We are now called The Latest Flames - perhaps a nod to Ade's long service as Elvis' guitarist on the tribute band circuit, or maybe to a repressed urge on my part to be an arsonist. (Or maybe someone singing 'and Marie's the name of his latest flame.' and we thought 'That'll do....').

 

Update, 2025

I'm enjoying taking things a little more gently and playing only the gigs I really enjoy. Always happy to be asked to play at clubs and special events and my regular coffee time gigs at Frodsham's Castle Park Arts Centre which are always a pleasure. Still working with The Deacons as we warily approach our fiftieth anniversary in a couple of years time, and delighting in an occasional and rewarding partnership with Adrian Dear. Onwards and gently upwards!

 

Update, 2024

I'm pleased to say I appear to be fully restored to what passes for normality. 

So I'm able to be out and about playing and singing once again, though i intend to take things rather more gently than my live dates archive suggests  I used to do!

 

November 2022

 

 More surgery on the way - a hip replacement this time - so I'll be off the stage for a few more weeks. But I'll be back soon!

 

Update, August 2022

 

Hurrah! After three years missing in action due to major surgery followed by Covid restrictions, Graham is up and running again. 

 

I'm no longer playing with The Deportees, though they continue to flourish without me, but I am once again playing solo gigs and with The Deacons.

I'm not doing as many gigs as I used to, so check out the Live Dates page to see what I'm up to. 

 

t’s a song that keeps me holding on When everything round me is going wrong It’s a song that helps to clear my mind When I can’t tell the reason from the rhyme What is it that makes us strong

It’s a song that keeps me holding on

When everything round me is going wrong 

It’s a song that helps to clear my mind 

When I can’t tell the reason from the rhyme 

                   What is it that makes us strong 

                   Lets us know where we belong 

                   What is it can set us free 

  •                    Voices raised in harmony

 

 

 

Song sample clips

When people ask me 'What kind of music do you play?' I reply with this.......

You can click the pause button to stop it!

 

 

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