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5th February 2008

Britpop interview transcript

29th January 2008

Only in rock-n-roll do you break an arm jumping off a stage ;) Six weeks passed since I broke it and the bone is all mended... hoorah. It will take awhile to get the muscles working again and mobility back, so lots of physio needed (even second gear quite an operation!)  but managing to play my guitar and piano without  problems... so all systems go for the upcoming European Tour as I'd hoped and expected. 

11th January 2008

Just back from two relaxing weeks in Cuba.

Guitar Magazine did a video interview with me which they've just posted for February 2008

http://www.guitarheroes.com.au/ag_0108/cd_0108.htm

19th December 2007

Long overdue update time: Harry and I had a wonderful time touring Australia last month. Everyone was extremely helpful and positive and my thanks goes out to each and everyone we met and worked with, for helping to make a success of the shows. There are simply too many names for individual credits. We plan to revisit before long. What a fantastic level of positivism and “can do” mentality. Lots of red letter memories.

Nearer to home and more recently, in a moment, for which I can only plead temporary insanity, I managed to break my shoulder at The Blues Garage in Hannove, which doesn't have a back stage area behind he stage, and only one small set of steps on one side. I was on stage with my acoustic guitar, doing sound-check with a 10 piece jam band, but no crew nor indeed a guitar stand and I was positioned furthest away from the stairs. The stage was packed with amps and musicians. I had just put in ear plugs for the first time ever in my life,  because the stage volume was high. I'd neglected to consider that wearing ear plugs would affect my balance! --plus because I couldn't put my guitar down, or easily get past all the other players, I decided to jump off the stage holding my Taylor (another absolute no no)... stumbled, predictably enough and to save my guitar, didn't put my hands out, et voila, one fractured shoulder. Crazy judgment call on my part but it's a "good break" in as much as it should heal without needing a operation and steel pins, assuming nothing moves in the next couple of days. So I’m reliably told I should, all being well, be strumming again in 6 weeks. No doubt the morals will be absorbed in the coming weeks.

From the people I was working with, through to the ambulance staff, through to all the hospital staff, I experienced a measure of care that ranged from saintly to angelic. It’s extremely life affirming to discover that when you are forced into a condition of dependency, (something that doesn’t come naturally to me), that so many fine people stepped up to the plate over and beyond just the call of duty. Even the crew on the BA flight home, fussed over me! As someone who lives without any kind of meds or medical intervention from decade to decade, the experience of needing, and being able to have, vast quantities of pain killers is novel. I can only say, as a convert, thank God I live in a place where they are plentiful and what a fantastic invention they are!

Seasons greets to one and all

DK

14th November 2007

Retail outlets in Australia, where I'm touring  for Ship of Dreams include

Real World Music Pty Ltd T/A Fish
JB HiFi Chatswood
Fantasy Sight and Sound
Beaumont Street Beat
Readers Companion
Leading Edge Music Taree
Just Funkin Music
All Music & Vision - Byron
Don Tuckwells Audio
Explore Music
Rockaway Records
Jungle Music Harbour Town
Cosmic Music
Muses Rundle Mall
Dillons Music NORWOOD
Carrig Music

5th/6th November 2007

Australian Tour: 

Many thanks to all the wonderful people Harry and I are meeting on our Australian tour and especially for their "nothing is a problem"  help and  generosity of spirit. 

I've been enjoying my night off in Sydney tonight, ordering room service, snoozing and watching TV... luxury!  Batteries recharged for the next leg  - Heading off for the Blue Mountains later today after doing Channel 9 Breakfast show live in a few hours  - luv DK x

European dates for February/March 2008 now up

10thOctober2007.

Australian Tour dates - Oct/Nov 2007

News of TV appearance on Today Breakfast Show and press interviews to follow Media seeking interviews in Australia please contact Anouk Van Meeuwen Publicity

17th September 2007

This is a snap taken by Tim Lewis at The Stables Milton Keynes a few nights ago, when I guested at the launch of Stage Two, their new performance space.

Still a few t's to cross and i's to dot, but it looks like it's all steam ahead for the Australian dates - Oct/Nov 2007 - which I'll be posting in the touring section of the site.

Germany and Europe looking likely for 2008.