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I'm available for bookings as a solo performer, and also as a duo - Brock and Hare - with fellow poet and songwriter/musician Andy Brown. I/we can play pubs, restaurants, weddings, festivals, book launches, parties, ends-of-piers, whatever.
We can perform sets that feature mostly covers, mostly original material, or a combination of both. Having a vast songbook between us, we can perform tracks by a wide variety of artists in the folk, rock, and country blues styles, including (but certainly not limited to)
We have our own pa equipment and can adapt to most small and medium venues. Use the CONTACT page on this website to make a booking.
(Above) Brock and Hare at Artisan Collective Gallery, Torquay (2022)
Performance History
2025 The Bay Horse Inn, Ashburton: with The Brer Rabbits and The Escapees
2025 Axe Vale Arts Centre: performing songs with Last Night's Debacle for the opening of Axe Vale Arts Centre, Axbridge 2024 Performing songs with The Escapees at Ashburton Arts Centre for the launch of Andy Brown's novel, The Midnight Mechanic (Sea Crow, 2024) 2023 Performing songs with Marc Woodward, and reading poems with Marc Woodward, Sally Flint, and Corinna Wagner for the Private View of 'Corinna Wagner: TerraOceanus', an exhibition at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon 2022 Bristol Grammar School (BGS) Library, Bristol: performing with Tom Biddle for Robert Massey's book launch 2022 Performing songs with Andy Brown, and reading poems with Andy Brown, Sally Flint, and Corinna Wagner for the Private View of 'Above and Below', an exhibition at Artisan Collective Gallery, Torquay 2022 Performing songs with Andy Brown, and reading poems with Andy Brown, Sally Flint, and Corinna Wagner for the final evening of 'Unstable Ground', an exhibition at Studio KIND, Braunton, Devon 2021 Charlton Kings, Cheltenham: for the New Bohemians Christmas Party 2020 Charlton Kings, Cheltenham: for New Bohemians: reading, and performing song-versions of poems 2019 The Cross Keys, Aldeburgh: performing song versions of poems from Cracked Skull Cinema (2019) for Poetry in Aldeburgh 2019 The Gallimaufry, Bristol: playing song versions of poems from Cracked Skull Cinema (2019) 2018 Beese's Riverside Bar, Bristol: with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe 2017 Beese's Riverside Bar, Bristol: with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe 2017 Beese's Riverside Bar, Bristol: two sixty-minute sets with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe 2016 Clevedon Pier: performing with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe as part of the grand opening of the pier's new Visitor Centre 2016 Canynyge Square, Clifton: performing with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe 2016 BGS Great Hall, Bristol: two 45-minute sets for an OB's reunion dinner 2016 Chandos Road Festival: performing with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe 2016 BGS, Bristol: two 30-minute sets with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe for a Penguin book launch 2016 Bristol Folk House: launch of Vision Helmet (Maquette Press, 2016), and performing songs with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe 2015 St James Wine Vaults, Bath: accompanying my own reading by playing new songs for the first time in a while. 2015 BGS, Bristol: two 30-minutes sets with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe to accompany a publishing event in association with Penguin Books |
The videos (below) - all rough recorded on an iPad in my garage studio - give a flavour of my solo covers set. Firstly, here's a version of Chris Izaak's 'Wicked Game', for which I've pre-recorded myself playing a simple backing track on drums, bass, and rhythm guitar ...
Here's my version of Richard Thompson's 'Beeswing' in dropped-D tuning ...
And here's a simple guitar/vox version of Nick Drake's 'Cello Song', recorded in my study ...
Featuring a pre-recorded backing track of bass and piano, here's a really-slowed-down take on Buddy Holly's 'True Love Ways' ...
And John Martyn's 'Lay It All Down', played on a DADGAD-tuned dobro
Finally, here's my attempt at 'Georgia' by Phoebe Bridgers ...
(Above) The Escapees at the Bay Horse Inn, Ashburton (2025)
(Above) Promotional flier for the splendid - but now sadly disbanded - Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe (circa 2017)
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