singer, songwriter, comedian, author, poet, broadcaster and multi-instrumentalist
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Eileen Payne
August 29, 2025 1:00 pm
Hi Mike , only just come across your recent books. I don’t suppose you are going to print any more ‘Specky four eyes’ are you? I would really love to read it. Years ago I had a copy of your book which included the ‘Fete’ and I laughed till I cried! Sadly I leant the book to someone and never got it back. Anyway I will have to keep a look out for your next book. Very best wishes, Eileen
Phillip Duffy
August 18, 2025 4:54 pm
Hi, Mike, I hope you are well. My name is Phillip Duffy, we met a very long time ago at one of your gigs in Basildon in Essex. You knew my dad Harry who we sadly lost in 2021. I still think your story about a certain Christmas fowl, is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.
The other Pat.
August 16, 2025 9:46 pm
Miss your podcasts, they got me through the covid. I thought.
Steve Morrison
August 9, 2025 10:56 am
Hello Mike,
Can you still get The Lancashire Song Book. We are a folk retailer and keep getting asked for it. Many thanks Steve
Declan
July 15, 2025 8:43 pm
Ayup Mike, I’ve just been watching an old Wheeltappers and Shunters and up you popped on the New Year’s Eve special..Talking Blackpool Blues, it reminded me of the working mens club trips I went on as a kid..adults supping and kids spending their fivers in the arcade and buying all sorts of sweet stuff and ending up like Willie throwing up on the bus in the way home…. Hope your well… you’re still well loved in our house…
John Levi
July 15, 2025 5:04 pm
Dear Mike, I hope this finds you well and that you might just remember me from Bede’s etc.,long ago. I was actually hoping you could help me contact a mutual old friend, Peter Gittins, (immortalised in the Nativity play at St G. K Mixed Infants!).
Kind Regards
John Levi
(In Abingdon, near Oxford)
Martin
June 3, 2025 3:40 pm
Hi Mike, greetings from (mostly sunny) Lincolnshire.
Many thanks for the laughs and superb music over the years.
Retired from the police now, thank goodness and still looking at my Tokai Telecaster on its stand in the corner of the sitting room – a bit like the pretty girl at the dance that you can’t quite muster the courage to go over to !
Given that I have always enjoyed music so much I really should learn, practice and explore this instrument.
Many thanks once again
Martin
Steve Bamford
June 2, 2025 7:45 am
Hello Mike – I’m an ageing folkie and used to listen to your programme on Radio 2 regularly. I found out a few days ago that you are now living in Céret – not sure if this is part-time or full-time. Anyway it so happens I have a house in Céret which I visit a few times a year (where I am at the moment). I like to play a bit of music in folk clubs and open mic sessions, but haven’t found anything like that in France.
So I wondered if you knew of anything like this – or indeed if you’ve set up anything yourself.
Best regards, Steve
Jess
April 30, 2025 7:12 pm
Hello Mike,
Are you ok? Still rambling?
Adrian
April 24, 2025 9:36 am
Hi Mike, big fan, still singing your songs, usually when am in the kitchen cooking
Hi Mike , only just come across your recent books. I don’t suppose you are going to print any more ‘Specky four eyes’ are you? I would really love to read it. Years ago I had a copy of your book which included the ‘Fete’ and I laughed till I cried! Sadly I leant the book to someone and never got it back. Anyway I will have to keep a look out for your next book. Very best wishes, Eileen
Hi, Mike, I hope you are well. My name is Phillip Duffy, we met a very long time ago at one of your gigs in Basildon in Essex. You knew my dad Harry who we sadly lost in 2021. I still think your story about a certain Christmas fowl, is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.
Miss your podcasts, they got me through the covid. I thought.
Hello Mike,
Can you still get The Lancashire Song Book. We are a folk retailer and keep getting asked for it. Many thanks Steve
Ayup Mike, I’ve just been watching an old Wheeltappers and Shunters and up you popped on the New Year’s Eve special..Talking Blackpool Blues, it reminded me of the working mens club trips I went on as a kid..adults supping and kids spending their fivers in the arcade and buying all sorts of sweet stuff and ending up like Willie throwing up on the bus in the way home…. Hope your well… you’re still well loved in our house…
Dear Mike, I hope this finds you well and that you might just remember me from Bede’s etc.,long ago. I was actually hoping you could help me contact a mutual old friend, Peter Gittins, (immortalised in the Nativity play at St G. K Mixed Infants!).
Kind Regards
John Levi
(In Abingdon, near Oxford)
Hi Mike, greetings from (mostly sunny) Lincolnshire.
Many thanks for the laughs and superb music over the years.
Retired from the police now, thank goodness and still looking at my Tokai Telecaster on its stand in the corner of the sitting room – a bit like the pretty girl at the dance that you can’t quite muster the courage to go over to !
Given that I have always enjoyed music so much I really should learn, practice and explore this instrument.
Many thanks once again
Martin
Hello Mike – I’m an ageing folkie and used to listen to your programme on Radio 2 regularly. I found out a few days ago that you are now living in Céret – not sure if this is part-time or full-time. Anyway it so happens I have a house in Céret which I visit a few times a year (where I am at the moment). I like to play a bit of music in folk clubs and open mic sessions, but haven’t found anything like that in France.
So I wondered if you knew of anything like this – or indeed if you’ve set up anything yourself.
Best regards, Steve
Hello Mike,
Are you ok? Still rambling?
Hi Mike, big fan, still singing your songs, usually when am in the kitchen cooking
Not when tossing the pancakes I hope ! Seriously – thank you – all the bersdt wishes pour la cuisine