If you missed my interview with Judith Woods in the Daily Telegraph today, read it by clicking here.
It’s all about digital, parenting and The Good Life Experience, the festival of music, food and the great outdoors that I’ve a co-founder of it. It takes place in September this year in Hawarden, North Wales. I’d love you to join me. You can buy tickets at www.thegoodlifeexperience.co.uk
At this year’s Good Life Experience festival, we’ve found the perfect place for campers to clean up in The Great Outdoors. Just a short walk from the campsite, Charlie and Caroline Gladstone, my festival co-founders who own Hawarden Estate are opening up The Ladies’ Fall, a lovely stream where campers will be able to wash over the weekend.
Despite the name, it will be open to everyone, not just ladies, just don’t forget your trunks and swimsuits! The Ladies’ Fall is in a lovely wooded part of the river and we’ll provide you with 100% natural and organic soap, so you don’t need to worry about polluting the river.
We’re building a small platform so that there’ll be easy access to the water, too. There will of course be showers in the campsite but if you want to escape the steamy festival showers, we think you should head to The Ladies’ Fall – that’s where we’ll be.
Click if you haven’t got your tickets to The Good Life Experience yet.
In April this year, Ireland’s Ambassador to Great Britain, Daniel Mulhall (pictured!) came onto my 6 Music show to share his life-long love of the poet’s work and why he is considered one of history’s greats as part of the 150th year celebrations of the poet’s birth. He joined me on air in reciting some of Yeats’ much-loved poems. And the celebrations continue tomorrow, when I’m heading to the Irish embassy to sing Sally Gardens.
And the WB Yeats celebrations don’t stop there! Tomorrow night, more artists will throng atNell’s Jazz and Blues bar in Kensington in honour of this great poets legacy, including the Chieftains, Cathy Jordan, Christy Moore and many, many more. Follow my twitter for live updates!
I’m currently working on composing the music for a new National Theatre production of Our Country’s Good, the first time I’ve composed for the stage.
This is a 1988 play by British playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, More
Part of preparing this new website has involved getting together a load of photos, and I thought I’d share these with you.
That little girl is me when, for my first brush of fame, I was photographed on the street by the local paper at the age of three. And I found a few photos from the very early days of Catatonia too.
