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NEXT SESSION: Saturday 19 June 2010 and every second Saturday thereafter…

Banjo Nick at the Inn on the Green, Ladbrooke Grove, every second Saturday (bring an instrument, bring a tune). First session 5pm. http://www.innonthegreen.org/

Saturday 2nd January 2010 (my happy birthday):

The view from Sylvie’s place by Sylvie.

Added 6th November

In the mood to jam…see you later

Added 25th October.

Life is indeed full of suprises: I was not expecting Pauline Neville Jones to drop in on the balcony session. Thanks for showing Pauline, I thought you looked crisp and thoughtful in Cambridge blue cashmir. Did I even detect the tapping of a foot to Milo and me getting off?

Pauline Neville Jones, arms trader, former BBC Governor, former Chair Joint Intelligence Committe and chief persecutor of David Kelly is 3rd on the left. She speaks for the Tory Party. She looks like a sweet little grannie but she is a ruthless conscience-free arms-length killer with a very considerable fortune built from undercover destruction. She even gives seminars on the ‘glass ceiling’ to fake feminist businesswomen bullies and no doubt makes lovely home-made jam. Come on, Pauline, debate with me– and bring your bank statements. You have some tax to pay. Oxford academic too. We simply must nail the arms traders, like Trinity College, Cambridge and All Souls, Oxford or there is no future for this tiny world. It’s cruch time.

You should have hung around. I’m going to be well prepared for our head-to-head because you are no push-over.

And who else was there? Lovely Persian man who has built Macca a beautiful six string semi-accoustic bass with fret board of record-breaking length, Rasta dudes, plenty girls, black predominately… and the femme-fatale! Sylvie knows I’m the rambling type who ALWAYS comes back… so Banjo Nick ended the evening where he most likes to be.

Added 8th October: Should be a good one this coming Saturday, Milo on his beat-box.

Jamming today came up with this sweet marraige of J J Cale and Bob Dylan, in F sharp, goes something like this:http://nickwardscenarios.wordpress.com/jj-cale-meets-bob-dylan/

Added July 2 August:

Having met Adam I have every confidence that The Present revived by the Cock Tavern Theatre (which Adam set up in true go-getting Aussie style) is going to be full of excitement.

Adam Spreadbury-Maher, theatre director, with Tickets, a man’s best friend (1.08.09), photo Sylvie

http://nickwardscenarios.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/the-present-1995-revived-at-the-cock-tavern-theatre/

http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/shenton/2009/07/a-name-from-the-past-back-in-the-present/index.html

Great to meet you, Adam – have fun with it, mate – I was serious when I suggested that the best way forward for the theatre would be to scrap the ‘subsidy is an entirely good thing’ argument. At least while ‘managers’ get 80 % of it. High time we proved a point. Riverside? Riverside has the technical kit for ‘theatre -to-film’ – would be the perfect place for an expolration of this new form of delivery… perhaps hosting a few late Peter Gill productions along the way. Just like the old days, Peter. Peter can read the reviews and tell us what they say.

‘Feigning madness is no joke’ (1.8.09), painted by Nick, photo Luisa

Luisa playing guitar on Nick’s back (2.8.09), photo Sylvie

Another great evening on July 17th. Thanks for showing, Ben. Splendid Isolation is a grotesque play – not easy to see how it works from the page. I wrote most of it when I was 24 – my ‘Kurtz’ piece. I am astonished by the way I was playing with conventions.

‘morning after’: Nick by Luisa (18.7.09)

‘River’ (2009) photo by Sylvie

‘om’ (2008) by Nick and Luisa, photo Luisa

Added 6 July: Thanks to everyone who took part in the balcony session on the 4th – it was storming good jamming – and thanks to everyone who came along. That’s my idea of a good night out.

Here I am cooking for the femme fatale and Luisa on the morning after. Go olive oil!

Nick in Sylvie’s kitchen, photo: Luisa

Luisa’s eye by Luisa

20th June balcony session produced this:

photo: Nick by Sylvie (20.6.2009)

http://nickwardscenarios.wordpress.com/what-about-tom-waits-2009/

photo: Sylvie by Nick (20.6.2009)

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photo: Luisa by Sylvie (21.6.2009)

Sing your song (2009)

You can’t build a house on the river, you can’t build a house on the river

The water will rise

Like the tears in your eyes

You can’t build a house on the river

Sing your song

Sing your song

You’re gonna need a boat for the river

You’re gonna need a boat for the river

On the ebbing tide

You’re going to take a ride

In the boat of the man of the river

Sing your song

Sing your song

(Add some verses if you like, obviously)

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