Really looking forward to playing originals tonight with my trio Cygnus Flare at Toulouse Lautrec.. Come down if you're in the area. There will be lots of irresponsible drum solos! Since I got back to London on Monday I've been busy working on new music with Cygnus Flare and rehearsing a monster 180 tune set list with my band that are looking for cruise ship contracts - we have an audition on Thursday in Manchester. I'll rehearse with them again tomorrow then go back up to Ed

Tomorrow is my last day on the Movin' Melvin Brown show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It has been a really fun Edinburgh Festival this year, but I need to get back to London so am passing the drum chair over to my good friend, Ross MacPherson, who will join us on percussion tomorrow for my last gig. There are some gigs and a lot of rehearsals coming up in London - Cygnus Flare have been writing new music for our gig next Saturday at Toulouse Lautrec jazz bar and my cruise

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year has been amazing so far. The show Movin' Melvin Brown Presents Me and Otis is going well, it has been fun to play with Melvin and the band every day - featuring Allan Knox on bass and Dan Reitz on piano. Melvin was on Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe yesterday, and the show had a nice 4 star TV Bomb review http://www.tvbomb.co.uk/review/movin-melvin-brown-presents-otis/ - thank you Kerry Teakle My brother is also working on a food st

I really came up to Edinburgh for a little holiday to visit home, but ended up picking up a show during the Edinburgh Festival that was short of a drummer. It's called Movin' Melvin Brown Presents Me and Otis and is full of classic Otis Redding tunes - it has been nice to delve a bit deeper into this music as there's a lot that's new to me. The show is on each day at Assembly Rooms Studio 1 and there are more details here: https://www.assemblyfestival.com/event/337/