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Dentistry and the violin - Yiannis Pipis - A Cyprus Legend and World Record Breaker

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

Published 02/05/21

Daily Chiofta

Published 02/05/21

A long rant at SNWMF

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

Published 01/19/21

'Strange' Foods

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

Published 09/28/20

Pieris Pierettis legend of Cyprus

When Pierettis met The Vragaman by the beach.

Published 09/06/20

From Eve to Gus

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

Published 08/26/20

Centurian Chiofta

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

Published 08/11/20

Politics - the open sewer

Politics with a big p is like an open sewer.

Published 08/10/20

Monoux - High School

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

Published 08/09/20

MIDEM late 1990s

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.

Published 08/08/20

Nana & Kojak

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

Published 08/07/20

Bitter Durrell

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

Published 08/06/20

A Diblokambino called Sotiroulla

My truck Sotiroulla is a double cabin and a saviour.

Published 08/05/20

Reggae...

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

Published 08/04/20

Xaratsi

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.

Published 08/03/20

Radio...

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

Published 08/02/20

Val's Place

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

Published 08/01/20

The day Bob Marley died...

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.

Published 07/31/20

To Skodomeno - a first encounter with a Skoda Coupe

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...

Published 07/30/20

Chippy Riot in Liverpool

Living through a riot in a chippy, Liverpool 1981.

Published 07/29/20

Jeff Trump and Riders

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!

Published 07/28/20

Names...such important things...

Names mean so much to us...we carry them for life...

Published 07/27/20

Interviewing Shaggy

Early 90s I interviewed Shaggy 3 times. Entertaining, clever and a total prankster!

Published 07/26/20

The man who called me John...

Collecting records from age 14 I encountered a man in a shop who constantly called me John.

Published 07/25/20

Don't DJ when intoxicated on Tsipouro

A powerful drink from Greece once taught me a simple lesson in life...Don't DJ when drunk!

Published 07/24/20