An important element of the Ash Mandrake Package is the visual studio work. Many people who see him live don’t know about this. In 2013, Ash teamed up with the portrait artist Krystyna Fitzgerald Morris. Some of the results chosen … Continue reading
Double necked ukulele The double necked uke is a piece of mischief wrought for the character Magpie The Jesterly Corvid. it consists of a piccolo ukulele attatched to a baritone ukulele – The little and large of the uke family. … Continue reading
Some people say don’t have your engine and living space in the same vehicle – i.e. have a trailer instead, so if your engine goes down, you’ve still got a home. I tried a camper in 2013. I’m going to … Continue reading
Wow ! the big show is over. The last two and a half months have been pretty non-stop. The results of all the hard work are a new double EP (5 music tracks +3 weighty stories) 5 new characters spanning … Continue reading
Gone are the days when one could call on “Ifty Kanifty” (the god of double back somersaults) to get yourself out of bother. Have just been knobbled by a local council for stopping in a red zone. Did I stall … Continue reading
The first review out of the hat is by Dave Franklin of Green man Music. I’d say it’s mostly descriptive and is favourable. Here are the first two paragraphs: Having seen Ash Mandrake play as a solo act a couple … Continue reading
Couple of days ago, I had my new collection of hats photographed in Blackburn by Matt Ainsworth. It was a massive job. We didn’t manage to work with all the new ones. There are some that I haven’t used on … Continue reading
Work on the double neck guitar In a couple of days, I’m going to be installing a single coil pickup along side the humbucking Dimarzios on my top guitar for some harsher edge, but also for a split signal and … Continue reading
January is a cliff face for gigs. Really relieved not to have to live in my Citroen Berlingo this winter. It would have been a really tough first winter out of bricks and mortar. Think the Berlingo would have been … Continue reading
CMA = Constant Movable Abode A mate recently commented that I am now with “No Fixed Abode”. That term has many negative associations for me, especially because I have on quite a few occasions (sometimes planned, sometimes unplanned) been with … Continue reading