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Narrowboat Sessions

Drew and Marie travelled to Wrexham to appear on the Narrowboat Sessions, which is a very cool initiative involving a recording studio on a narrowboat that travels round the country. What a great couple of numbers.

Old Time Train

Thanks to Tom Beaumont for feature a couple of Neirin videos on his YouTube channel, including this one, with Jase North guesting on guitar and drums. From the Blues Night at The Old Angel Inn, Bardney, Lincolnshire. Watch the video on YouTube and you'll see that he's also recorded and shared "Tryna Not Lose My Mind" as well. Big thanks to him, and to all in Bardney for such a good night.

On Tour!

Into Autumn and Drew and Marie put in an awful lot of road miles in a wonderful 14 day, 9 gig tour from the English midlands to the north of Scotland, taking in Newark, Leeds, Keswick, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow and the Isle of Skye, and managing to fit in a bit of sightseeing as well. The photo above is of Portree, on the Isle of Skye.

It's been a busy year for touring. As well as covering a lot of England, Scotland and Wales, Drew followed 2025's trips to Switzerland and the USA with a 2026 gig in Paris, and another in a place he'd always wanted to play: New Orleans. A big thanks to Cafe Negril on the world famous Frenchmen Street for such a warm welcome and the chance to share the stage with some wonderful blues musicians. Best quote of the night:

"Who knew that an English lad would know anything about the blues?"

A real treat for Drew, and another off the bucket list. Thanks to Cafe Negril for clips from the session, and to all the great musicians who made it such a wonderful night.

More touring is in preparation for 2027, with all the usual places (and some new ones) in the UK, European gigs already pencilled in for Denmark, Germany and The Netherlands in the summer, and more international gigs under discussion. We'll keep you posted as details emerge.

BDLenz Trio

Drew met the wonderful BD Lenz while they were both in New Orleans, and when the BDLenz trio was in the UK, they came to Bath and invited Drew to join them on stage. How about this!

Bath Music

As well as all the national and international travels, Drew and Marie love living and working in Bath. Not only gigging regularly in Bath, Bristol and nearby (see upcoming gigs here), Drew also hosts regular live music evenings in different Bath venues. You can see all Drew's regular promotions just by clicking on the image.

Once More Through the Mind Filter

Drew has a 2026 album out on all major platforms.

Get it on Bandcamp - click here for the link.

It's a compilation of previously recorded gems, now given a polish with new recordings.

Find out what Drew says in the Neirin Facebook page - you can click anywhere on this post to see it on Facebook.

Only You

Drew and Marie featured in this beautiful video, but not as musicians! It's Young Martyrs video of their track "Only You," and if you watch it you'll see what we mean.

Top Five

In 2026 Drew's "The Good Part" was listed in Indie Music Monthly's top five "must listens" chart. You can listen to it on Spotify by clicking on the chart below.

Interview with the Whisky Rev

So the success of the 2025 album, "Bones," just goes on and on, with over 20,000 plays on Spotify, from all around the world. Not only that, but the Whisky Rev Blues House on Speysound Radio made it album of the week, and you can see Drew's full interview with the Whisky Rev here. Fascinating stuff about Drew, his influences and the Blues.

Australia

No, despite all Drew's international travelling lately, he wasn't himself in Austriala, but his "Summertime Gave Me The Blues" got a spin on the "Blues on the Hill" show in Melbourne, Australia. You can listen through their Facebook page linked here. Drew's number is on just a little after 20 minutes in. The whole show is worth a listen!

Listeners

Check out what Drew says about listeners and success. Click on the Facebook post here to see it on Facebook.

Neirin

Drew now uses "Neirin" as a catch-all name for all his duos, trios, full bands, especially live. Click on the cool "Neirin on Tour" pic to find out more.

Great Reviews!

Click on the pics the two latest in a stream of very nice reviews of Drew's work from Zillions magazine and Glide magazine, this time for "So I Heard," which is on Bones (Part Two) and you can listen to on Spotify by just clicking here.

Coming Home

There are 9 tracks on Drew's summer 2025 album, I'll Keep on Comin Home. The live version of the title track from the album launch is featured above. You can see it in full screen by clicking on the square in the bottom right of the video. There's another video from the album launch below, with clips from two more of the tracks.



A great big thanks to the packed, standing-room only crowd that come to the album launch, to all the band, to Lloyd Edwards working sound and Luke Fleming on video production. What a blast it was!

And here's the earlier promo video of "Mean Mean Man," produced by Luke Fleming.

Here's what Drew said about the album when it was released.

Hey folks. The newest album, is now available on all the major music platforms. It features 9 songs, including our cover of ‘Wait a Minute’ by Seth Walker. Much love noise appreciators 🤍⭐️

Choose your platform from Drew's Listen page.

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