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SEASON’S GREETINGS
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’Tis the season – and that can mean any number of things including, but not limited to, Yuletide, Day […]
NOVEMBER 2020: STILL PLUGGING AWAY
Big City Productions is situated within the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.
HERE’S THE NEWS!
STANDING TALL – DOCUMENTARY FILM
Standing Tall – Vancouver Stories of the 2020 Pandemic was […]
SEPTEMBER 2020: SOCIALLY DISTANCED CREATIVITY
Big City Productions is situated within the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.
HERE’S THE NEWS!
THE CUCKOO GENE BY CHRONOLORD
Many thanks to Xavier Boscher from La Musique dans la […]
JULY 2020: CONTINUED VIRTUAL PROPINQUITY
Big City Productions is situated within the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.
Black Lives Matter
“There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out […]
WELCOME IN THE MAY BUT STAY SAFE AND STAY WELL!
Big City Productions is situated within the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.
Here we are in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic. We […]
MARCH ROARS IN TO THE SOUND OF THE CUCKOO
Big City Productions is situated within the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.
The Cuckoo Gene by Chronolord
Reviews
There’s a lovely review of The […]
SCI FI CONCEPT ALBUM ‘THE CUCKOO GENE’ OUT NOW!
Big City Productions is situated within the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.
A BRAND NEW SCIENCE FICTION CONCEPT ALBUM
RELEASE DATE – JANUARY 31ST 2020 […]
SEASON’S GREETINGS AND 2019 IN REVIEW
2019 IN REVIEW
We wish you all the best for the festive season and the happiest of New Years! Thanks to you all for your support in 2019. We began the year with Tim’s […]
NOVEMBER’S SUN IS LOW AND WINTER FLAPS HIS FLEECY WINGS
HITHER AND YON
The more erudite among you will recognise the James Rigg quote, which in full is “Even when November’s sun is low and Winter flaps his fleecy wings, Thy […]
THAT OLD SEPTEMBER FEELING
Hither and Yon
“That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air … Another fall, another turned page: there was something of […]
HAPPY CANADA DAY 2019
A very Happy Canada Day to each and every one of you. Thanks for having me Canada!
LIVE SHOWS
Tim will be performing solo and MC-ing […]
WELCOME IN THE MAYTIME NEWS
Live Shows Coming Up
Tim will be performing at L’auberge Sans Frontières in Dégagnac, France; Vancouver’s Jericho Folk Club; Mission Folk Festival and Harmony Arts Festival over the next few weeks. […]
HELLO APRIL -HERE’S WHAT’S SPRINGING UP
Tim Readman in Concert in Mission BC
We are looking forward to being back in Mission – home of the finest folk festival in the known world – for this concert at 7 pm […]
WELCOME IN MARCH – AND CELEBRATE ST. PATRICK’S DAY WITH US!
Tim at The Rogue Folk Club for St. Patrick’s Day March 17th
Want to spend St. Patrick’s Day in a green beer free zone? Check this out! Tim will […]
JANUARY UPDATE AND FEBRUARY GIGS
February Gigs
Tim is very pleased to be doing a couple of shows with his friends Vostok in February. See below for details and the official blurb:
ELLENWOOD CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS
VOSTOK with TIM READMAN
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9th […]
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
Christmas Present and Gifts
All the very best from all of us, to all of you! Tristan Fabriani is particularly happy this year as he got what he asked Santa for in the […]
NOVEMBERIST NEWS AND REMEMBRANCE
Lovely Review of Fear of Drinking: Live in Zurich
Gordy the Moose presents some of his favourite new music from the submissions that have arrived in the Roots Music Canada virtual mailbox. This month’s selection includes […]
ROCKAROLADOO! KID’S ALBUM COMPLETED
The latest album penned by Alan Millen and set to music by Tim and Bill Buckingham is for the wee ones and is entitled Rockaroladoo – by the Tutti-Frutti Funhouse Band. The album will be […]
LIVE IN ZURICH VIDEO TRAILER
We are delighted to share our new video trailer, courtesy of Darrion Kerr, to promote Fear of Drinking: Live in Zurich featuring Tim Readman, Gerard Kerr and Bill Buckingham. The trailer features […]
LIVE DATES 2018
For those of you who didn’t hear the party – which was only eclipsed by the celebrations for England reaching the World Cup semi-finals – Tim retired on June 29th 2018 from his job as Executive […]
NEW FEAR OF DRINKING CD: LIVE IN ZURICH
Fear of Drinking – Live in Zurich
We are delighted to follow up on our last blog with more news about Live in Zurich. The CD is now out and available […]
SPRINGTIME: A BRAND NEW WEBSITE, SOME OLD TREASURE FOUND
Time to Put on Your Woolly Trousers
Come on, let’s tune up the panpipes and cloven-hoof it out into the woods to do some dancing around with abandonment. Whatever your […]
A BRAND NEW WEBSITE, VALENTINE’S AND WORMS
Brand New Website
The back room elite that makes up the Big City geekerati have been working with the very good people at Greystone Creative on a Brand New Tim Readman Website™. It […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR – TIM READMAN’S FIRST NEWS OF 2018
Blintz Band Reunion
Tim met up with Kev Bainbridge (guitar and vocals), Ian ‘Ted’ Hay (drums) and Colin ‘Batty’ Barratt (bass) in December […]
DECEMBER AND THE MID-WINTER SOLSTICE HAPPENINGS
Mid-Winter Solstice Greetings and Felicitations
We wish you all the very best for whatever it is you celebrate at this time of year. We go for a little Christmas, a wee bit of Xmas, […]
NOVEMBER UPDATE – BRIGHT NEWS FOR DARK DAYS
Sci-Fi Prog Rock Project Ahoy!
Baltimore’s Andy Cooke and Tim are now busy writing songs for their Sci-Fi Prog Rock project … with the working title Cuckoo Gene. Will it have a […]
September Fally Autumnal Notes
A novel and new CD from Jez Lowe
Exciting news from our old pal and Tim’s fellow County Durham boy Jez Lowe. A little bird told us he has an upcoming album of traditional songs – […]
Mission and Harrison Festival Photos
More photos, courtesy of official photographer and all-round good egg, Ben Shaevitz from the 30th annual Mission Folk Music Festival in July.
Also some pics from Tim’s set with Jennie Bice at the Literary Café at The […]
Message from Pat Garbutt
OK so I have not been on Facebook for a lot of weeks but now it is high time that I sent my thanks out to you all for the support that I have received since Vin […]
Pub Nights at the Red Dragon
This fall we’re starting a series of musical pub nights at the Red Dragon on Main Street.
We had a great night June 16th with pub food, pub quiz and some very funny heckling! We are […]
Summer of Love
The psychedelic relic himself has been sending this note around to make sure nobody misses out on the fun!
“I am writing to let you know about a song Tim Readman and I collaborated on recently. It’s called The […]
Comedy Cares
We had great time at Comedy Cares in Port Coquitlam with Alison Ogilvie and crew. We raised a few hundred for Stroke Recovery Association of BC, Charlene Reaveley Children’s Charity and Boden Lalonde.
Tim played a couple of his own […]
August 2017… and We are Still Going Blue
We continue to get a tremendous response to our request for fans to send snaps of themselves with the cover of Go Blue for us to post on social media. There’s […]
Halifax Disaster – Song for Kate and Anthony
There was a nice write up in Halifax’s Chronicle Herald about Tim and Alan Millen’s song about the Halifax Disaster – ‘Song for Kate and Anthony’.
As previously reported, it is a “love among […]
A natural comedian with an insightful, laugh-out-loud view of the greater world
Few folk singers, if any, communicated with an audience like Vin Garbutt. A natural comedian with an insightful, laugh-out-loud view of the greater world that he frequently toured, Garbutt […]
May 2017… and We are Still Going Blue!
Wow, we’ve asked our fans to send snaps of themselves with the cover of Go Blue for us to post on social media, and they have done so, over and over!
Some of the […]