The next Hat Club presentation will be something special. Not only is it likely to be the only one of 2018 it is also sure to be the first...

The final  Hat Club  of 2017 is a special one. We're presenting our first songwriter's special: 'Roots in the Round'. ...

The final Hat Club of 2017 is a special one. We're presenting our first songwriter's special: 'Roots in the Round'. Hat C...

Interesting how the muddled mind works. I'm lonesome in a converted fisherman's netting shack in Walberswick (on the Suffolk coa...

"That I know nothing, that the world I live in will go on escaping me forever." Paul Auster How we miss our lives is life e...

I love this. Talk-Show is songwriter Lawrence O'Shea. The offerings are a fascinating melange of troubadour song-smithery and 70...

The new  Joe Henry  album ' Thrum'  is a beguiling mixture of obtuse lyricism and sombre, sonic beauty. T'aint 'whistle...

Mark your calendars for our next gig... Michael McDermott, Saturday 30th September 2017. Often likened to Dylan and Springsteen, 2016 wa...

Mark your calendars for our next Hat Club gig: Michael McDermott , Saturday 30th September 2017. Often likened to Dylan and Springstee...

I've just heard that one of my favourite teachers Gordon 'Delme' Thomas has died. Back in 2013. How did I miss that? I was a ...

Last night's Hat Club saw the return, two years to the day, of Adam Beattie and Brooke Sharkey. They had new albums to tout and we...

30 years ago. My oh my. 30 years ago Di and I attended our first gig together. It was at the UCL in the Aldwych. I had dragged my new...

"Imagine for a moment the true weight of what it fundamentally means to be proud of your desires  instead of shamed by them. It mean...

We all love a list; particularly at the end on the year. Here's the first of a few; this from a brother of a mate. I play squash w...

I was relatively unaffected by Elvis's death; partly because he was not of my generation and also because it was natural/self induced....

Yup, it's that time again. Everyone loves a list. Here's the first of a few. This from a firm friend of Hissyfit, Canadian T...