One of the main points of this blog is to examine and in time develop the intersections between music and Parkinson's. Last night Lynne and I attended Springfest at Blackpool, Waterloo venue - familiar territory for us both, having worked there at various times over several years as

First a quick update as prompted by my 'No Place to Run' blog. The truth is despite a promising start, my weight has fluctuated and if you're anything like me weight-loss is as much to do with state of mind as anything else. Moods have been

Several months ago I stumbled across a youtube site operated by a guy called Rick Beato. He has around 5.5 million subscribers. I assume that any of you that are guitar enthusiasts will already know of him but for me it was a revelation. As well as being an

Good question! The main reason is my personal perception that awareness of Parkinson's is not as high as it should be. Although (again perception) other degenerative diseases such as MS and MND are in the main a bit more brutal, I still feel Parkinson's tends to

I think about this quite a lot from time-to-time. Wasn’t it Gene Simmons of Kiss who last used this phrase and I guess it stirs up the ‘old guard’ into action. It gets debated for a while and then we return to our former state and the debate edges

A few weeks back my wife Lynne (LA) went to see Lynne Jackaman (LJ) live in concert, accompanied by our friend Shane Mckie, a big LJ fan. Many of you will know Shane as a keen supporter of bands from various UK locations including Manchester. Also his son Freddie is

As planned Lynne & I went to KK's Steel Mill, Wolverhampton last night which has been a frequent excellent venue for us with Blaze Bayley, Absolva & others. The journey to Wolverhampton was difficult - wind & rain of almost biblical proportions (OK, OK slight exaggeration), yet eased

Day one yesterday on a new regime, down to 113.6kg so that's a loss of 0.4kg. Lynne & I are out to see Primal Fear & Ronnie Romero at KK's Steel Mill in Wolverhampton this evening, hoping I can handle walking around the big

I'm currently reading Steven Bartlett‘s book 'The Diary of a CEO: the 33 laws of business and life" (thanks for this Christmas present from my youngest son Luke). One approach that Bartlett talks about is the Feynman Technique which is basically this... "If you

Awakened today at 3 am, having rested my head on the pillow from 9:45 pm. Five hours of relatively undisturbed sleep is pretty good for me as I’ve been going through insomnia problems which, together with a persistent ankle/achilles problem, means this has been a difficult period

It's time to get a little serious. I guess many of you will know what's going wrong in the brain of a Parkinson's sufferer but many of you will not. Until I started googling my symptoms prior to diagnosis, I had very little clue