The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

"Roots" annotated OK. Let's knock this thing on the head once and for all. Here is a clip of a song by Mr Steve Knightley a...

Sunday I have done a bad thing. Last night I drunked beer, and this morning I woke up feeling distinctly woozy, and found that I had not...

Saturday Evening The regular reader of this column (I know where he lives) may remember that Clarrie and I have a long standing friendly di...

Saturday Afternoon Arrived about 12. Clarrie and Tim inform me that I have missed the first spontaneous full on standing ovation of th...

Friday Afternoon and Evening Officially, the Bristol Folk Festival started at noon on Friday, although there was no scheduled music until t...

Friday - Morning I walked out on a bright may morning, like a hero in a song Looking for a place called England, trying to find where I ...

Summary This weekend I have 1: Drunk Gem Ale 2: Worn flowers in my hair (artificial) 3: Danced (there may be photographic evidence) ...

I have not rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him Neither have I suffered my mouth to si...

and the really great news is...today is the BRISTOL FOLK FESTIVAL, so there's more of this to come. Just as well there's nothing o...

Bristol Folkhouse 23 April You remember Robin Williamson. I've mentioned him before: described by the Archbishop of Canterbury as ...

Chapel Arts Center Bath April 15th That damn woman with the nasty sister. She gets about, doesn't she? This time the bad sister throw...

Bristol Folk House April 8 Ah, yes. Eight horribly talented young people. They met at the Birmingham Conservatoire. All the boys were stud...

Wed 16th Feb Jazz@ Future Inns Don't seem to have taken any notes at this one. Steve Tilston was every bit as good as he always is, a...

Arts Theater London Not a concert, as such, but a play about the life of Woodrow Wilson Guthrie. Started life in America, but now touring...

7 April - Bath Comedy Festival Lester and Mick used to periodically played Sid Kipper on Folkwaves, back in those glorious old days when we...

Bristol Folk House March 11 I have been reading a book called Electric Eden. Apparently, Bristol Folk House was implicated in the abortiv...

Feb 9 Kings Place London On Tuesday, Chris Wood had been nonchalantly crowned "best folksinger" and owner of the "best song...

Jan 29 - Q.E.H Bristol It never stops amazing and delighting me, that performers like Steve Knightly who fill the Colston Hall and Wells Ca...

So, my extensive fanbase (Sid and Dorris Bonkers) is on tenterhooks (whatever a tenterhook is) to hear my answer to the question on everybod...

On the news yesterday, there was a vox-pop quote from an American lady, referring to the Leader of the Free World and Commander in Chief: ...

I spend a lot of time slagging off journalists and politicians for being evil lying pondscum. Because most of them are. I have really really...