Hello and happy new year from a blustery stretch of the Southwest Coastline. A couple of weeks in and we’ve had a rather violent storm turn our local BBC introducing show into weather watchers, one of my favourite music venues has sadly closed for good (shout out Coast Beach Bar Bude, it was one hell of a view) and a rather pesky sore throat had left me unable to sing comfortably. In my line of work that is rather problematic but despite this I managed to fulfil my gigging co