selected recent gigs:

Longfield Suite (with Lancashire Hotpots)
Bolton Octagon Theatre (Mental Health Services benefit concert)
Witchwood Ashton with Lancashire Hotpots
Inspire Manchester
Birkenhead Pacific Rd with Deaf School
Manchester Academy with Doors Alive
Audlem Oxjam 2011
New Mills Festival 2011
Hope Valley Folk Train 2011
York Peace Festival 2011
Freedom Fest 2011 West Yorkshire
Rhythm Festival 2011
Poynton Show 2011
'Something To Believe In' Festival 2011
Bury Met Theatre with The Lancashire Hotpots
Winsford 'On The Fringe' Fest 2011
Middlewich Folk'n'Boat Festival 2011 (with Los Pacaminos)
Water Festival 2011, Whaley Bridge
Glastonwick Festival 2011, nr Brighton
Evening Star, Brighton
Mental Health Services Concert, Octagon Theatre
Strummercamp 2011
Audlem Music Festival 2011
Sandbach Acoustic Affair
Manchester Academy (with The Doors Alive)
Hole Note Acoustic Club, Hebden Bridge (headline)
Witchwood, Ashton Under Lyne (with Lancashire Hotpots)
Topic Folk Club, Bradford (headline)
Winsford with Chris Difford
St Helens Citadel with Lancashire Hotpots
The Farndon Hotel Farewell Evening
The Fabulous Arty Types Show, Wigan
Robin Thornber Memorial Concert
Brewhouse Arts with Kevin Fegan
Wigan with Lancashire Hotpots
Raise Your Banners fundraiser 2010
Octagon Theatre Bolton (headliner) 2010
Oxjam Manchester 2010
Leicester (The Donkey) with The Lancashire Hotpots
Congleton Jazz'n'Blues Festival 2010
The Poynton Show 2010
Audlem Beer Festival 2010
Glaston-Bury Hopsice Festival 2010
Tame Valley Music Festival for Macmillans Nurses 2010
Evening Star, Brighton
The Secret Showcase, London
DW Stadium Wigan (for Wigan Warriors Premiership Rugby)
Audlem Festival 2010
Mowbreak Beer Festival 2010
Into The Valley Festival 2010
Acoustic Festival of Britain 2010
Edinburgh Pleasance (with Nick Harper)
Birkenhead Pacific Rd Arts Centre (with Wishbone Ash)
Morecambe Platform (with Wishbone Ash)
Manchester Academy (with Wishbone Ash)
Carlisle Brickyard (with Wishbone Ash)
Love Haiti @ The Cavern Club, Liverpool
International Guitar Festival Of Great Britain (with Nick Harper)
MhIST Mental Health Benefit Concert, Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Pathways PTSD Benefit Concert, Macclesfield
Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
Poynton with Richard Digance
In Session for Borders Books
Sheffield with The Lancashire Hotpots
Holmfirth with The Zombies
Tameside Food and Drink Festival
The Poynton Show
Mind Body Boogie (main stage)
Acoustic Eclectic (headline)
Glastonbury Festival 2009 (with Fluff on fiddle)
Lord Sutch Anniversary Gathering, Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys, Wales
Tap & Spile, Hull
Wirral Resources Toy Library Benefit Concert
Acoustic Festival Of Britain 2009
Doncaster (with The Lancashire Hotpots)
Audlem Festival 2009
Into The Valley Clitheroe Festival 2009
Mowbreak Beer Festival 2009
DeBees, Winsford with The Lancashire Hotpots
The Brickyard, Carlisle with The Lancashire Hotpots
Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield with John Cooper Clarke
Brindley Arts Centre, Runcorn with John Cooper Clarke
Mechanics Theatre Burnley with John Cooper Clarke
Holmfirth Picturedome with Hounds Of Love
Live In Session for All FM
Edinburgh with John Cooper Clarke
Glasgow with John Cooper Clarke
Preston with John Cooper Clarke
Sheffield with John Cooper Clarke
Coastival Festival 2009, Scarborough
Holmfirth and Buxton with Nerina Pallot
Sheffield with Baskery
Manchester Academy with The Lancashire Hotpots
Blackburn St Georges Hall with The Lancashire Hotpots
Holmfirth with Limehouse Lizzy
Sheffield (with Jackie Leven)
Borders Books (Birstall)
Temenos Person Centered Learning 15th Anniversary
Burnley Mechanics with The Lancashire Hotpots
Winsford and Clitheroe with Thom The World Poet
Sheffield Boardwalk with Stackridge
Mind Body Boogie Festival 2008
Witchwood 20th Anniversary Concert 2008
The Poynton Show 2008
Crewe and Nantwich Festival 2008
Sheffield Boardwalk (with The Gutter Brothers)
Grotton Hotel (headline)
Audlem Festival 2008 (with Fluff)
The Witchwood (with Daevid Allen's University Of Errors)
Clitheroe Festival 2008 (headline)
Crosby Stamps (with Attila The Stockbroker)
Wrenbury (Love Hope Strength Concert)
St Helens Citadel (with John Cooper Clarke)
Blackpool Tower with (John Cooper Clarke)
Sheffield Boardwalk (with The Nimmo Brothers)
Holmfirth Picturedrome (with The Saw Doctors)
St Helens Citadel (with Focus)
Oxjam 2008 @ DeBees
Nottingham Rescue Rooms (with Focus)
The Legendary Manchester Busker 20th Anniversary Concert 2008
Manchester Radio Online (in session)
Morecombe Platform with Wishbone Ash
Pacific Rd Arts Centre with Wishbone Ash
DeBees Winsford with Attila The Stockbroker
The Grotton Hotel with Adrian Byron Burns
Brindley Arts Centre, Runcorn (with Nick Harper)
Witchwood Ashton (with Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash)
The Legendary Manchester Busker
Bournemouth Old Fire Station (with The Men They Couldn't Hang)
Nottingham Rescue Rooms (with The Men They Couldn't Hang)
Sheffield Boardwalk (with The Men They Couldn't Hang)
Wolverhampton Robin (with The Men They Couldn't Hang)
Manchester Academy (with The Men They Couldn't Hang)
Frome Cheese n Grain (with The Men They Couldn't Hang)
Ruby Lounge Manchester (with Wallis Bird)
International Guitar Festival of Great Britain 2007 (with Nick Harper)
Stroud Subscription Rooms (with The Men They Couldn't Hang)
Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre (with The Men They Couldn't Hang)
Penzance Acorn Theatre (with The Men They Couldn't Hang)
Glasgow Arches (with The Men They Couldn't Hang)
Morecambe Platform ((with The Men They Couldn't Hang)
Newcastle Academy (with The Men They Couldn't Hang)
St Helens Citadel (with Wishbone Ash)
Huntington Hall, Worcester (with Walter Trout)
Worden Arts Centre (headline)
Kendal Brewery Arts Centre with Wishbone Ash
Liverpool Carling Academy with Wishbone Ash
Borders Books, Batley
Chris Difford Songwriting Week 2007 (Italy)
DeBees Fringe Festival
Poynton Show 2007
Chesterval Cancer Benefit Event
Nantwich Culture Festival
Holmfirth (with Toots And The Maytals)
Larmer Tree Festival (impromptu drunken fun and chaos!)
Middlewich Festival (with Nick Harper)
Bury Met Theatre (with Kris Drever)
Folks Fest, Derby
Audlem Music Festival
Boardwalk Sheffield (with The Zombies)
Folks Fest, Cardiff
Folks Fest, Shrewsbury
Leeds City Varieties (with The Zombies)
Folks Fest, Wrexham
Folks Fest, Northampton (2 shows)
Pacific Rd Arts Centre with Wishbone Ash
Blackpool Tower with Wishbone Ash
Holmfirth Picturedrome with Walter Trout
Sheffield Boardwalk with Focus
Sheffield Boardwalk with Johnny Dickinson
Manchester Academy with Hawkwind
Stoke with The Wonder Stuff
Nottingham with The Bluetones
The Station, Morecambe, with Wishbone Ash
Bolton Albert Halls with Wishbone Ash
Oxfam Fund and Awareness Raiser, Glossop
MHIST Mental Health Benefit, Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Holmfirth with Wishbone Ash
Chris Difford's Songwriters Week at Monestevole, Umbria, Italy
Sugarmill Stoke On Trent with New Model Army
Waterside Arts Centre with Bic Runga
Manchester Academy with Ozric Tentacles
Lowry Theatre Salford with John Cooper Clarke
Dukinfield Music Festival 2006
Hayseed Dixie in Holmfirth, Wigan, Kendal, Sale (Manchester)
The Alarm (Manchester)
John Cooper Clarke, Sale (Manchester)
Happy Monday Festy Ellesmere Port
Wishbone Ash in Nottingham and Burnley
Spunge at Ellesmere Port Civic Hall
Birkenhead and Crewe dates with Nazareth
Bolton Albert Halls with John Cooper-Clarke
Stoke Sugarmill with Hayseed Dixie
DaDa Fest 2005, Liverpool
Middlewich Winter Warmer 2005
The Zombies, Manchester Sale Waterside Nov 2005
The Zombies, Platform, Morecambe Nov 2005
Birkenhead Pacific Rd Arts Centre with Hazel O'Connor
Nantwich Folk & Roots festival 2005 (+ workshop)
Wigan One World Festival 2005
Scottish Mini-Tour 2005 with Rory Ellis
Manchester Academy with Michelle Shocked
Newton Music Festival 2005
Buxton Festival Fringe 2005
Aspull Music Festival 2005
Pacific Rd Arts Centre with Wishbone Ash
Chepstow / Oxford
Manchester Life Cafe (with The Zombies) 2005
Tsunami Relief: Glossop 2005 (raised £5,000)
Tsunami Relief: Wigan 2005
Inter-Action Disability Arts Cabaret 2004
Comedy Store with The Tiger Lillies 2004
Wishbone Ash Shows (Morecambe & St Helens)
In The City, Manchester (2004)
Nantwich Folk & Roots Festival 2004
Church Unplugged Festival, Uppermill
Arts For Life (Edinburgh Festival 2004 - 2 days)
Wolverhampton Civic Hall (with Glenn Tilbrook)
Glossop Folk & Blues Festival 2004
Forrest Fest, Texas 2004
Glastonwick Festival 2004
Chorlton Arts Festival 2004
Pacific Arts Centre (with Wishbone Ash)
Manchester with Josh Ritter
Albert Halls, Bolton (with Nick Harper)
Bradford with Roy Bailey
Paddington International Poetry Festival, London
North Moor Urban Art Street Festival, Manchester
'Tettstock', Wolverhampton
Loughborough Acoustic Club
World Cafe, Bradford
Glossop Beer Festival 2003
Nantwich Folk & Roots Festival 2003 (2 shows)
Wigan One World Festival 2003
Halton Show 2003
Lift Global Music Festival 2003
Haigh Hall Music Fest Wigan 2003
TEXAS USA (3 weeks) including Austin, Lamesa, Lubbock, San Antonio & Tulsa Oklahoma
Halton Show 2002, Spike Island, Widnes
Stop The War Coalition (Bradford and Glossop)
Lift Global Music Festival 2002, Glossop
Life Cafe, Manchester (Lloyd Cole support)
Wolverhampton University
Interaction @ Woughton Theatre (MIlton Keynes)
Limelight Club, Crewe
Witchwood Ashton
High Cross, Lake District
Dancehouse, Manchester
Revise Bar, Chorlton
Independence Festival, Leeds
Glossop Manor Park Festival
Glastonwick Festival (2001 & 2002)
Adur Festival
Evening Star, Brighton
Haigh Hall, Wigan
The Collective, Wigan
Witchwood Ashton (Kevin Coyne support)
The Masque (Liverpool)
Ballistic Acoustic (Widnes)
Waring Green Community Centre (opening)