Author: Bill Lowdell

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Travel / Van Life

So I bought a van!

So after getting caught short with a rubbish tent in Snowdonia and some very wet weather back in August, I had to take to sleeping in my tiny Citroen C1! This actually turned out to be surprisingly comfy given the circumstances and sowed the seeds for what was to come....

General Musings

The Abuse of Auto-Tune

I have been unfortunate enough to have listened to Radio 1 for a few mornings this week (yes … why, I hear you ask would a 53 year old musician put himself through that? ?) Yes, why is another story! … But like watching the Jeremy Kyle show or sitting...

General Musings

Hold your fire – Keep it burning bright

As a musician of many years, musical inspiration can come from many sources at any age or time of your life. For example, my secondary school music teacher was so uninspiring that I gave up music as one of my options … yet my English teacher so inspired me with...

Foster Care Leaver

KEEP loving yourself more

Big Bill – Little Bill Some fantastic advice from my big bro Jayl & ‘little sis Liz. Acknowledge what that little boy went through and survived. How amazing!! How brave and strong he was…and that is YOU! Not a failure – an amazing, brave and strong person! And certainly good...

My Story

Sweet William – ‘A childhood in care and music’

This ‘thing’ has to start somewhere, so where better than Sunday the 22nd of November, 1964 at 1.45pm. My good self, William Douglas Charles Lowdell came into the world on a wave of musical irony, to the sound of ‘Baby Love’ by The Supremes. Well I’m pretty sure it wasn’t...