2025

With the intense heat, I am out testing in the evenings and readjusting later still or early morning. Also seeking the moments when GHC is finally quiet and the bats or birds are the only ones singing.

With daily outside temperatures often +30C, inspiring support becomes essential. ThankYou Dreizehn !

And it’s fabulous to be welcomed back to Grandhotel, reconnecting with everyone and finding and meeting more participants and friends and hearing more stories and music and recording more [...]

Every Wednesday, musicians gather down in the souterrain (underground/ basement) at Grandhotel to play together. There’s a drum kit so that tends to dominate, but also a collection of percussion [...]

Café Cosmopolis, like many things here, is run by volunteers. I ran it with Salomé last week who also taught me the secrets of the perfect hafe milch cappuccino, the mysteries of a koo milch [...]

I’m hanging out with the people and the Rathausplatz on a Saturday morning. It’s busy and chatty and relaxed with the weekend and the sunshine arriving. Coffee and ice cream are consumed all [...]

I’ve cooked vegan maafe for my new GHC family, all of whom have already been in the studio for us to talk and share our heritage and stories around why/how are we in Augsburg? Everyone speaks [...]

Akbar Faizi comes to play. I’ve only ever heard this instrument on vinyl from one of my weekly selections at  Nottingham City’s wonderful library back in the 80’s, and to hear it live now is [...]

The press launch of the 375th Friedensfest (Peace festival) in Annahof, Augsburg. Excellent to be able to arrive with one of our newly donated Bike Kitchen bikes, already pimped up for [...]

BikeKitchenAugsburg is non profit organisation of cyclists who host a wide selection of donated/discarded bikes available for anyone. Their aim is to inspire all of us who can to get on two [...]