John Burke's a-Musings

I've been looking for a chance to take this photograph for a while. This is Debenhams in Blackpool on the corner of Albert Road and C...

On Friday we played at the Elgin Hotel, Blackpool for a luncheon gathering of ex British Gas staff. This was the third time we have playe...

Friday 5 April 2013. We were booked to play at a surprise birthday party. Surprise birthday parties can be a risky thing to accept booki...

A set of photographs from Saturday 30 March of the current construction on and adjacent to Talbot Road. This is the area being described as...

Saturday 23 March 2013. Friday was just a warm up, a chance for a bit of a jam session. Tonight we had a few more acts and a tight and fix...

Saturday 23 March 2013. I wasn't due to touch the guitar for a few hours yet, but as we left the hotel bedroom to go for breakfast I ga...

Friday 22 March 2013. The Billy Fury weekend has moved from the Sunnyside in Northampton to the Hind Hotel in Wellingborough and is a quiet...

A few slightly surreal conversations over the past few months where people have come up to either David or myself and said, " We saw yo...

I found a little time on Saturday morning to run round Blackpool with a camera. The construction work on the new Gateway site (why do I w...

A lovely afternoon yesterday, sitting in Waterstones Blackpool, chatting to people and signing copies of my book, Blackpool Then and Now . ...

I know I've been a bit scarce here recently. I'm sorry folks, things have been a bit hectic! Work has been busy, but for a change,...

A new guitar made its way into my possession recently after much drooling and looking pleadingly at Miss Franny. So when I popped a couple ...