May 28th HMV Forum, London, UK


June 11th Festival "Toto n'aime pas la soupe, Saint Etienne, France


Sept 23rd, Montreal, Canada



I will put Ticket, Address & other details up shortly, along with other shows. At the moment I am mesmerized by learning how to buy a house in the UK. I believe I have just done so.

Only some rats leave sinking ships, it seems,. Some obtain their boarding credentials In the dire belief that if one clings to any wreckage long enough something delightful will float to the surface.

Thanks so much to those who wrote. It was, I'm afraid, my fault; having not understood the intricacies of domain registration versus website domain space, which is a different thing (and company), entirely apparently.

I may not know how to do anything on it, but, as is typical with humans, I missed it enormously once it was gone. Anyway, it is back. May 2010 have as good a result for us all.

The Colchester Arts Centre is everything anyone could hope for in a venue; exquisite physically, both inside and out, and filled with both competence and kindness. Thank you Staff from all of us for the invitation.
Nancy, I love your voice! Thank you so much for being kind enough to play.
To everyone there, love and thanks from Joolie, Maja, and myself.

Colchester Arts Centre Thur. 26th Nov
Tickets: www.colchesterartscentre.com
Tel: 01206 500900

The Marseille show has now been confirmed and will be at:

Le Poste à Galène - Friday, December 11 2009 -
103, rue Ferrari - 13005 Marseille

Téléphones
SALLE : 0491 47 57 99

A very big thank you to all who made the Paris and Lille shows and CD launching as wonderful an experience as they were.

The danger in saying thank yous is that one always forgets someone - I will try not to.

Bernard & Theo for being kind enough to open up your exceptional record store for the evening for the launch of Rats Laugh Mice Sing.

To Jacques for inviting me to play in his very beautiful Cinema, Jean-Vigo.

To Didier for taking me to his favorite museum, Gustave Moreau - and being so very kind about the music.

To all at Vultures Musik: Fred, Olivier, France - thank you once more for helping make the evening, and the whole time in Paris, what it was, which was a complete pleasure.

To Arthur for his invitation to Lille. It was a perfect end to a delightful week.

And of course as always to Joolie Wood, for both her voice, lovely playing and her company during the trip and travel.

And finally to Maja Elliot for doing an incredible job on keyboards on such short notice and very little rehearsal.
We will all play together again in a few weeks at the Colchester Art Centre, UK. which I very much look forward to.

Maja Elliott will now be joining Joolie and I for the show in Paris on the Oct 17th! the details of which are below, sadly she can't stay for Lille, she must return for Swedish moments. But it is hoped she will able to play at the show in Colchester, November 26th.

Paris show 17th Oct
will be at the Cinéma Jean-Vigo
1 rue Pierre et Marie Curie 92230 Gennevilliers (01 40 85 48 80)
cinevigo@gmail.com

Other details are below.

The European launch of Rats Laugh Mice Sing will be at Le Souffle Continu on the Friday 16th at 18.30 . Joolie and I will be there to play a few songs from it and I shall try out my French on those brave enough to talk to me.
directions can be found at:
http://soufflecontinu.free.fr

can be found in the press section of this site or at the link:

http://www.hour.ca/music/spin.aspx?iIDDisque=5630

Maja Elliott's very beautiful album, Dreams of Elyssia, is now available through 10 to1 Records.

Payment for the CD can be made through paypal at the address 10to1recordsire@gmail.com. Please put the title Dreams of Elyssia in the subject line. For more details please go to the 10 to 1 section.

Please note that this is a different paypal address than for Simon Finn CDs which remains 10to1recordsUK@gmail.com

Montreal Sat. Sept 19th Casa del Popolo
4873 St. Laurent, Montreal, Qc, H2T 1R6, Canada

Paris Sat. Oct 17th Cinéma Jean-Vigo
1 rue Pierre et Marie Curie 92230 Gennevilliers (01 40 85 48 80)
cinevigo@club-internet.fr )


Lille Fri. Oct 23rd Le Drugstore
arthur_dhainaut@hotmail.fr


Colchester Nov 26th Colchester Art Centre
http://www.colchesterartscentre.com

Copenhagen, Denmark. 10th June 2009
The show will be at LADES
Kattesundet 6
Copenhagen, 1485K
DK

The Madrid show at the Museum, Circulo Bella Artes on Friday the 24th July
directions can be found on their site below.
I am told it is to be on the roof so I shall be careful not to amble off of it.
http://www.circulobellasartes.com/ag_cba_visita_virtual.php

Paris will be on the the 17th Oct at the Cinéma Jean-Vigo
1 rue Pierre et Marie Curie 92230 Gennevilliers (01 40 85 48 80)
cinevigo@club-internet.fr )

Tickets will be on sale as below:
Concert : 12 euros, 9 euros pour les adhérents
Concert + buffet : 15 euros, 12 euros pour les adhérents.

and it is a cinema, so for those who wish to make a night out of it:
Film + buffet + concert : 18 euros, 15 euros pour les adhérents.

Pour s’y rendre Ligne 13 direction Asnières/Gennevilliers : arrêt Les Agnettes, puis prendre le Bd Calmel pendant 300 mètres et tou

There will be shows in various places in Europe coming up and info will go up as it comes in. But Paris is now confirmed and will, as the last two years be with the lovely & gifted Joolie Wood.

Madrid will also be with Joolie and looks like it will be in the last half of July - but I will put details up over next month.

Warsaw looks like it will be in the begining of Nov.

And Czech Republic dates are still being worked on and will be with Joolie also

Coventry Sat. March 14th
Taylor John's House: Coal Vaults, Canal Basin, Coventry CV1 4LY.
tel: 024 7655 9958

CRACOW - March 3rd - Alchemia club, 20.00hr
reservations: rezerwacje@alchemia.com.pl
reservations: 516 095 863
office (phone/ fax): (012) 428 47 80
5 Estery St.
31-056 Cracow

Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Łaźnia
ul. Jaskółcza 1, 80-767 Gdańsk
tel. 058 305 40 50
fax 058 305 26 80
office@laznia.pl

GDANSK - March 5th 2009 - Gdansk Art Centre - 18.00hr

An as yet multi-titled CD is in the process of being recorded and will hopefully be ready for release late spring or summer.

There are also some shows being worked on in both the UK and Europe. I will put details up in the New Year.
Until then may you all be blessed with a smooth transition.

this will be at Chapter on Sunday the 26th. accompanied by Joolie Wood.

for tickets outside Cardiff please write to cosmic702003@yahoo.co.uk

11th Sept at Teatteri Telakka Tampere, Finland
There are many Finn's in Finland. Now there will now be one more for a couple days.

Brighton UK FRI 19TH Sep 8pm - 11pm
Playing with me will be once more the wonderful Joolie Wood on violin and flute and also the inimitable Karl Blake on electric guitar

Caroline Weeks and Birdengine will also be playing on this evening

The Red Roaster, St. James Street
Tickets Rounder Records 01273 325440/ Resident 01273 606312

for tickets and further details please contact :

putitonpromotions@googlemail.com

Madrid 27th Sept at the Asociacion Cultural La Casa de los Jacintos

Castellon 30th Sept at the Casino Antiguo

Tarragona 2nd Oct at the Groove Bar

Barcelona 5th Oct 2008 Sala Monasterio 8pm

May 14th Colchester Arts Centre UK
for information and to buy tickets please go to the http://www.colchesterartscentre.com

May 9th, Barcelona, Spain. details shortly

April 29th Copenhagen details shortly

details will be posted soon in the 10 to 1 records section on this site
and at www.mayfair-music.com

21st Feb, 2008 Sa Nostra, Palma,
doors: 19:30h show: 20h
info: waitingforwaits@yahoo.es
This is part of the Waits festival taking place in Palma throughout the spring and summer

March 1st Bateau EL ALAMEIN
17 Quai François Mauriac (en face de la Bibliothèque Nationale)
Port de la Gare, Paris 75013
Metro Quai de la gare ligne 6, Bercy ligne 14
for info and tickets contact:
vulturesmusick@free.fr
http://elalamein.free.fr

I'm very behind on everything including reviews. I'm moving, everything is in boxes and I don't have a webmistress or master at the moment. Please be gentle with me, I'm learning as fast as I can but I don't know how to put songs up yet and have no time to learn. there are few bits and pieces incompetently put up under Press


Accidental Life
Steve Guimond
November 22nd, 2007


Montrealer Simon Finn's songs have always carried the weight of the world on their three-minute shoulders, heady vivid narratives cutting to the heart of personal, romantic and familial relationships. Accidental Life is only the third record in his topsy-turvy, 35-plus-year career, a solid gold gem that outshines its largely acoustic-guitar predecessors through beefy production and a further incorporation of outside instruments (percussion, strings, winds, electrics, piano, backing vocals). Finn's a world-class lyricist and picker who deserves a much greater spotlight, particularly in his adopted hometown.

I will be playing at the Tranzac Club on Friday 30th Nov.
Also playing will be The Silt & Wyrd Visions, who played at the same venue with me last year and have kindly offered to play once more.
The Tranzac is located at:
292 Brunswick Avenue
Toronto. info: 416 923-8137 or
info@tranzac.org

24th Nov, 2007
Casa del Popolo, Montreal, Canada
Accidental Life, the new 16 track CD will be available at the show

Sam Shalabi has kindly agreed to play for this show.
info and tickets
4873 boul. St-Laurent
Montreal, QC H2T 1R6
tel: 514.284.3804

tickets are also obtainable from: Cheap Thrills, Oblique and Atom Heart

Wed, 31th Oct, 2007
Buffalo bar, Windsor place, Cardiff, Wales CF10 3BY

Joolie Wood has confirmed that she will be able to play!

29th Oct
The Gramaphone 60-62 Commercial Street, E1 6LT Liverpool Street
tel: 020 7377 5332
Advance tickets can be got at http://www.wegottickets.com/event/22621

21st Oct, 2007
Taylor John's, Coventry, UK
opening for Michael Gira

Once more, Joolie and Karl will be playing with me at this show!

I will be playing on October 10th at the very lovely Colchester Arts Centre UK
for information and to buy tickets please go to the http://www.colchesterartscentre.com

the very gifted Accidental Life musicians, Joolie Wood and Karl Blake will be playing with me for this show!

It looks promising that a bass will also be added for the Coventry and Colchester show. I will give details beginning of Oct.

6th Oct 2007
13th Note, Glasgow, Scotland

Some other shows will go up over next couple of weeks once I have all the details.

I apologise for this appallingly untended website. I don't know how to do everything and I don't have access to some things, in any case.

This will all change at some point over the next few months as Lars Erik, a very kind 'webber' from Denmark has offered to help me set up a new 'hotel' as they are apparently called. though I'm going for a B&B, with the full English, as I don't need the spacious grounds unless a porn site he says..

Thanks for your patience. My only excuse is that I wasn't brought up with all of this, I will get it, but like Greek, it takes a little longer as you get older.

Sept 25th
The Green, Dulwich, London, UK
London,
UK
Cost:8
Description:56-60 East Dulwich Rd. London, London and South East SE22 9AX UK Cost:8 Description:for reservations, tickets, and information call: 07951723938

Donau Festival
review by David Stubbs

.....Simon Finn delivered his bitter Blakeian Songs of Experience with such venom that he twice broke his acoustic guitar strings, but finished with a towering, incensed version of Jerusalem which made Roy Harper sound like Cat Stevens.

30th May
The Green Note, London UK
106 Parkway, Camden
London, NW1 7AN
Info: Tel: 020 7485 9899
Email: mail@greennote.co.uk

it is now possible to buy tickets at the below.

www.wegottickets.com/event/17176

24th May
SLAK, Cheltenham, UK
Tickets available from Cheltenham Town Hall Box Office on
(01242)227979 or through cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk

for information email: mendiamler@googlemail.com

22nd May at The Green
58-60 East Dulwich Rd. SE22 9AX
for reservations, tickets, and information call: 07951723938
www.greenbar.co.uk

19th May Sa Taronja, Mallorca
for information and tickets: info@sataronja.com

3rd May
The Tin Angel, Coventry, UK
for tickets contact: The Tin Angel

April 27th Athens, Greece
Also playing will be Joolie Wood, Maja Elliott and Defile Des Ames
‘Art House Ekvasis’
5 Deligianni Str
Behind Panteion University
Metro Station: Syggrou-Fix
Tickets will go on sale on Monday March 26th.
I-TICKET www.i-ticket.gr
Lost-In-Thyme Music Festival
Tickets : 25.00 € / day or 3-day pass: 55.00 € ,
INFO: st.shepherd@smallmusictheatre.gr

- 27/04/2007, h. 20:00: Simon Finn, Joolie Wood, Maja Elliott, Defile Des Ames, Sketches
- 28/04/2007, h. 20:00: Baby Dee & John Contreras, Julia Kent , Ernesto Tomasini & Othon Mataragas
- 29/04/2007, h. 20:00: Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch, Blind Cave Salamander, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, Burgundy Grapes









“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder' ” - Aldous Huxley .......... There is little one can add. He was a lovely and extraordinary man

Donau, Austria.
Fri 20th April
Sat 21st April, 2007

The festival will feature many artists I know and love as musicians and people. Thanks, once again, to David Tibet for magically bringing us all together.

I will play with Current 93 on the 20th and my set will be on 21st.

Info and tickets will be available for the festival at: www.donaufestival.at

14th April 2007 Art And Colur, Copenhagen, Denmark

Moscow, Russia

8th April 2007
The Ikra , Moscow, Russia

31st March 2007
Les Voutes, Paris, France.
For information and tickets: vulturesmusick@free.fr

March 10th:
Cabaret Music Hall with Pop Levi Montreal, Canada
2111 St Laurent
Phone: (514) 845-2014