Last year I teamed up with longstanding collaborator and amazing artist Rosi Golan to write two songs - 'Seeing Ghosts' and 'A Lot Of Things'. Both are on Rosi's brilliant new album 'Lead Balloon'.

Then last week the folks behind US TV show Private Practise took a shine to 'A Lot Of Things' having it appear at a well chosen moment.

Rosi and I have some new songs together in the proverbial pipeline - I also worked with her on a song called 'Hazy' from her first record 'The Drifter and the Gypsy' which has an incredible amount of industrious young people covering it on Youtube.

www.rosigolan.com

Here is Miriam and my 'Lil Drummer Boy' if you're in the Christmas state of mind, recorded in the Blackforest with the wood cracklin and the wood walls glowin. Miriam played the old harmonium and me the guitar. Happy Christmas wherever ye be...

Lil Drummer Boy mp3

Check out http://yhoo.it/vqy3HL to hear 'Remain' by Tyrone Wells featured on a video of www.yahoo.com's most inspiring moments of 2011. I co-wrote this song with Tyrone a couple of years ago. Little did we know it would soundtrack the times.

If you're in the area, or wanna travel, I'm playing a gig on a boat in the very charming city of Durham this sunday 4th Dec. I'll also be captain of the boat and will take everyone on a grand voyage to the edge of the earth and back. All of this is true apart from that last bit.

Checkout datesfor more details.

I collaborated with lead singer of German band Reaman, Rea Garvey, back in 2010. Our song 'Sorry Days' is the 3rd track on his album 'Can't Stand The Silence' which went in at No 4 last week in the German album charts.

I'm currently holed up in the Blackforest quite coincidentally - no better place to celebrate!