In days of old when dentists lacked medical qualifications - violins and pliers came in handy. The tale of Yiannis Pipis a Cyprus Legend and World Record Breaker

A long rant at SNWMF

Jan 19th, 2021 5m 59s

Touring the USA in 2004 and playing at The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival - a long rant means a short set...

'Strange' Foods

Sep 28th, 2020 4m 28s

The things that make you go...yuuuuck....

Pieris Pierettis legend of Cyprus

Sep 6th, 2020 5m 10s

When Pierettis met The Vragaman by the beach.

From Eve to Gus

Aug 26th, 2020 4m 32s

How a kitten changes names following revelations by modern veterinary science.

Centurian Chiofta

Aug 11th, 2020 6m 56s

A reflection on The Daily Chiofta journey and spontaneity - the rat, the cat and the dog...go to the good...

Politics - the open sewer

Aug 10th, 2020 6m 21s

Politics with a big p is like an open sewer.

Monoux - High School

Aug 9th, 2020 5m 46s

Memories of an oppressive school going through its own schizophrenic identity phase.

MIDEM late 1990s

Aug 8th, 2020 5m 40s

I went to MIDEM once in the late 1990s. This is the annual music gathering in Cannes, France and was full of coincidences for me.

Nana & Kojak

Aug 7th, 2020 5m 33s

2 important parts of our ethnic 60s and 70s TV diet...

Bitter Durrell

Aug 6th, 2020 5m 42s

A few thoughts on the most famous book on Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell.

A Diblokambino called Sotiroulla

Aug 5th, 2020 4m 56s

My truck Sotiroulla is a double cabin and a saviour.

Reggae...

Aug 4th, 2020 6m 51s

My life long love for a worldwide music that started in Jamaica...

Xaratsi

Aug 3rd, 2020 4m 56s

A place deep in the heart of Nicosia old that I love to play at and some thoughts on people and places that just don't understand Reggae.

Radio...

Aug 2nd, 2020 7m 53s

One of my life long passions...Radio...

Val's Place

Aug 1st, 2020 4m 46s

A very special place in Gialia. A musician's utopia.

The day Bob Marley died...

Jul 31st, 2020 5m 17s

11th May 1981 is a sad day for music worldwide. The day Bob Marley died, I heard the news on a sound system at Essex University.

To Skodomeno - a first encounter with a Skoda Coupe

Jul 30th, 2020 6m 8s

Around 1975 my brother George got a Skoda Coupe. Taking it for a first spin, excuse the pun, the rest as they say is history...

Chippy Riot in Liverpool

Jul 29th, 2020 6m 35s

Living through a riot in a chippy, Liverpool 1981.

Jeff Trump and Riders

Jul 28th, 2020 5m 37s

Riders are those things bands get before gigs. The more famous a band is the more elaborate the rider. Jeff Trump my drummer brother from San Francisco is an imaginative rider architect!