Visit to the National Library of Guyana, Georgetown, 24 July 2025

The latest versions of They Gave the Crowd Plenty Fun, and 1973 and Me, will be available as book loan and reference items at the National Library of Guyana, Georgetown. Following an enjoyable tour of the library and meeting various members of the library team. Including Lesa Gilgeous (pictured), Head of Reference Department.

In 2014, during my last visit to the library, I handed over a copy of the first edition of They Gave the Crowd Plenty Fun. This book was formally received by Nadine Moore, the Deputy Chief Librarian of the National Library of Guyana and Head of the Human Resource Department.

Many thanks again to Lesa Gilgeous, and the library team, for the warm welcome and interest in my books and future projects.

Meeting DJ John Kennedy for Hansib publications book number three, 2 July 2025 

It was great to meet John Kennedy for the first time in many years. We DJ’d together at gigs and clubs in a few venues during the early to mid – 1990s.

I was a guest (once with the band, Strawberry Story!) on his Radio Thamesmead (RTM) radio show – Sharp as a Needle, and he supported the Waaaah/Bring on Bull music organisation I ran with the wonderful Richard Coulthard.

We discussed ideas around John’s contribution to my next book, currently titled Scene and Heard, for Hansib publications. Scene and Heard is scheduled to be published in 2026.

You can listen to John’s legendary X-Posure music show is on RadioX.