This Sunday sees the full band, original-songs incarnation of Kindred Spirit play Richmond’s On the Edge music festival. It’s our highest-profile gig for a while (though not a very long set – be punctual if you want to see us, at 1pm!) and should be a great event in general (fingers crossed for no rain).

It will also be the gig debut of my new electric violin, which I’m tremendously excited about (get behind me, feedback! I have a super-rock-looking shiny black instrument that kills you stone dead).

And it will be the Kindred Spirit gig debut of Stevie Mitchell on flute, saxophone and backing vocals, whom some of you know as my girlfriend (and many more people in the world know as a superb musician in her own right, I hasten to emphatically add!).

Several new chapters open … be there to witness it at the start …