Small eruption doesn't bother Dan

When Dan Magnusson, along with his assistant - Cato aka Fat Bull, were on their way to England for the upcoming gigs with Seasick Steve a lot of flights were cancelled. Swedish television, SVT, made a good story about flying or not, and the reporter got some good comments about the danger of the vulcanic ashes. Whom? You know who... Follow this link: SVT News Report

Three old bums at Jools

Last week Seasick Steve, myself and John Paul Jones took part in Jools Hollands fantastic music show on BBC. It was a tremendous experience and we all had a great time. Here's one of the two songs we played on the show. I'll hope you like it. Click on this link: http://youtu.be/HM1UVwITWvw

Seasick Steve US tour spring 2011

Earlier this spring me and Seasick Steve made our first US-tour together. Steve, as the american he is, has done this many times before, but this was my first journey to the states, and I was fascinated over the nature, all the nice people, the appreciative audiences and the fine venues we played at.
We started out by driving north on the Pacific Highway. It took some time (days) but it was well worth it. We stayed overnight in some great places like Laguna Beach, Moro Bay, Carmel (hometown of Clint Eastwood), Muir Beach and Mendocino and some more places.
Our first official gig was at the Wonder Ballroom in Portland, Oregon thursday march 31st. It’s a wonderful venue with a lot of history dating back to the autumn of 1914.
Nowadays The Wonder Ballroom is a beautifully restored historic building with a wide variety of performances and events.
The audience was top of the line, as it was on all our gigs.
Our next gig was on monday april 4th at Slim’s in San Francisco. On sunday we sat down on the pavement in Haigh Street and played a couple of songs as people walked by, that was an interresting experience. Boz Scaggs established this place in 1988. Slim’s is a live music club dedicated to providing good food and drinks as well as the finest of American roots music such as blues, r&b, cajun/zydeco, jazz amongst others.
And as I said earlier, the crowd was awsome on all the venues.
The next day we went to San José for a gig at the Blank Club. This is the number one club in San José according to the locals we spoke with. Everyone who is someone has played here, or at least that is what they said. And it’s easy to believe since the club really had that genuine rock’n roll club feeling.
Two days later we had our last gig at this mini tour of the american west coast. In an old warehouse from the 1930’s the Los Angeles artists in music, theater, dance and film has found it’s center stage.
After a good gig with yet another great audience our mini tour was at it’s end. After spending a couple of lazy days on the Californian west coast I boarded the plane for the long flight home.
We had some nice weeks driving up and down the Pacific Highway, playing some gigs and having a lot of laughs, as we always do when we’re on the road. Now it’s back to working at my and Jeanettes coffee shop until june when the summer season kicks off.