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Busy… Full band is confirmed for Carter USM’s aftershow at Brixton Jamm. I did a nice interview for Dirty Sexy Music mag, wrote a short bit in The Guardian about the plinth, wrote a Morning Star column about the Mercury Prize and loved Thirty Pounds Of Bone singing ‘Ankles’ at a Brighton gig.

Full-length solo headline at intimate new one-day festival Folk Off To The Park, at the lovely Park Hotel in Bletchley. Make a Milton Keynes weekend of it.

Check back for lineup and ticket details.

The Park Hotel on Smoothhound.co.uk

Thank you everyone at Folk Off in Bletchley Park, lovely little festival. Looking forward to Beautiful Days this weekend, if you’re going we’re onstage Sunday 3pm in the Big Top. Nice review in last week’s NME for the plinth set as well, as it goes. Here’s some pootubes:

Frank sings ‘M1 Song’ at Kendal Calling

‘This Gun’ from the plinth set

Funny anonymous ‘Eminem’ slideshow vid

Chris and the Hoodrats will play on the second stage of Beautiful Days 2009, on the Sunday. Can’t wait!

Details to follow.

October tour dates piling up on the Gigs page. Fuck Oasis, the truly sad news is that The Broken Family Band are calling it a day. I’m supporting them on their October UK tour, which will be some of their last shows, so worth grabbing tickets. We’ll add ticket details during the week.

This week I’m also heading out with Jim Bob to play piano for him on his short Goffam tour, hitting Glasgow, Norwich and Brighton amongst other places. Support is Tim Ten Yen and in Brighton we’re joined by the unspeakably awesome Thirty Pounds Of Bone.