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In days of old when dentists lacked medical qualifications - violins and pliers can in handy. The tale of Yiannis Pipis a Cyprus Legend and World Record Breaker
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Touring the USA in 2004 and playing at The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival - a long rant means a short set...
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How a kitten changes names following revelations by modern veterinary science.
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A reflection on The Daily Chiofta journey and spontaneity - the rat, the cat and the dog...go to the good...
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Memories of an oppressive school going through its own schizophrenic identity phase.
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I went to MIDEM once in the late 1990s. This is the annual music gathering in Cannes, France and was full of coincidences for me.
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2 important parts of our ethnic 60s and 70s TV diet...
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A few thoughts on the most famous book on Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell.
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My truck Sotiroulla is a double cabin and a saviour.
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My life long love for a worldwide music that started in Jamaica...
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A place deep in the heart of Nicosia old that I love to play at and some thoughts on people and places that just don't understand Reggae.
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A very special place in Gialia. A musician's utopia.
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11th May 1981 is a sad day for music worldwide. The day Bob Marley died, I heard the news on a sound system at Essex University.
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Around 1975 my brother George got a Skoda Coupe. Taking it for a first spin, excuse the pun, the rest as they say is history...
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Living through a riot in a chippy, Liverpool 1981.
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Riders are those things bands get before gigs. The more famous a band is the more elaborate the rider. Jeff Trump my drummer brother from San Francisco is an imaginative rider architect!
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Names mean so much to us...we carry them for life...
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Early 90s I interviewed Shaggy 3 times. Entertaining, clever and a total prankster!
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Collecting records from age 14 I encountered a man in a shop who constantly called me John.
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A powerful drink from Greece once taught me a simple lesson in life...Don't DJ when drunk!
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Teaching Ithaka by Kavafy as told by Sean Connery...
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A collection of mini chioftes on things that happened during gigs in Cyprus.
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The illegal industry in Cyprus that affected many musical careers.
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On matters and encounters of the Imiskoumbrian kind...
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My first case of inclass punishment - the crime - knowing how to dance Zorbas!
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The Military Coup in Cyprus 15th July 1974 changed the course of history.
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Kantonas ,Vrajes and a close shave with the law in Chingford.
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Sugar's only live radio interview in Cyprus in 1997 started off with an eruption of laughter...
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The notorious 9/8 rhythm that some cannot grasp.
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My love for Sociology goes back to school and accidentally misprounouncing the word in Greek has become a Poumbouris family urban folk myth.
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A painful story of infidelity, Maro-Maria, a song from my 2nd LP Aphrodite's Dream' and how the video clip got banned.
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A great friend, DJ and supporter of my work since 1988.
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I have known him since I was 12. Our friendship is like duracel batteries, it just goes on and on....
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London was very different from Marathovouno and some things had to be learned the hard way...
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The first day at school in Walthamstow was all about eyes...
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The neighbours who took care of me and taught me so much.
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The flight from Cyprus to London via Athens, at the age of 4 was traumatic.
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The letter that changed the entire course of my life.
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Travel is a very important part of my life which is thanks to my grandfather Poumbouris.
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A visit to film maker Panicos Chrysanthou in Peladousa turned out to be a real cliffhanger.
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Paphos is where it all began for me in Cyprus. I had an amazing time there in the summer of 1993. Lesson 1 was also learned...never cross a Paphian...
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An encounter on a 29 bus with a Haringey Urban Legend.
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Bands played a big role in the Wedding business in the UK.
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Brox Broxenia the archaic practice of matchmaking caught on camera.
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The arrival of video cameras as weddings meant everyone had a recird about bloumisha
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judging people by how they talk or look has consequences
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Every Saturday my mum had a routine, shopping the length of Walthamstow Market.
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A customer picks the wrong fruit to steal from a Bakaliko in Dalston 1977.
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Traveling the world you come across places and people with a Cyprus connection.
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A true and harrowing chiofta on the writing of 'Stavroulla'.
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My mum loved wrestling and my dad's cousin Milos, became a wrestler from the 1930s in England.
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Toppouzos & Kantonas - friends for life. Early experiences of improvisation on stage...
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Cypriots have some characteristic names and ways of reacting when they are innocent in a car crash.
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An escapadecon teaching traditional Cypriot dancing.
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A gig in the middle of nowhere in Chico - what goes around comes around.
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A tale of mispronounciation that could have led to an international incident!
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A ten year old in a shoe factory in London Lane, Hackney E.8
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When hair or lack of it becomes a criteria for playing bouzouki.
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Haji can order a coffee at a wedding...but can Perry, his older brother, do the same?
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Kataklysmos, Larnaca 1993/4 and being chased by 500 screaming teenagers.
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Frank, a Jamaican Taxi Driver aka the Dancehall Reggae Wikipedia on 4 wheels.
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Discovering you are from another planet by entering the wrong bar at University
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My old Greek teacher at college told a good chiofta or two each week in class. This his most famous encounter is about misunderstanding everyday language.
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You are what you declare - a self appointed singer from The Coffeeshop.
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Set in the heart of Green Lanes, Haringey, Trehantiri Music, was the Chiofta centre of the community. It also had the largest Greek music selection in the world.
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My grandmother Shenkou was a wise woman from Marathovouno, Mesaoria, Cyprus.
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We arrive at the BBC on a cold snowy winter and file in one by one filling out name tags. Sugar is last...the rest is history.
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A tale of one of the greatest singers of all time, Stelios Kazantzidis.
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My first experience of teaching taught students and me how to connect in a better way.. Accents, don't you just love them...
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Georges der Parthogh my dear friend taught me two key things...never judge a book by its cover and a chiofta a day keeps the doctor away.
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A tale about the cat statues outside the Carera building in Mornington Crescent.
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My first encounter with Gringlish as spoken by my mum to my aunt in Famagusta 1968
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A true confession from a surviving vinyl addict
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The day a taxi driver called Wagdi saved our lives in Port Said, Egypt.
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Nikos Papazoglou's first live performance in London - a landmark concert organised by Trehantiri Music with no tables and chairs!
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Haji Mike has never done Eurovizion yet many people think he has...
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Fate, the way things just happen sometimes is such a powerful thing...
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Imagine you turn around, and Stevie Wonder's at the door...
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Malibu the biggest disco in Cyprus - 1994 - when the champaigne flowed like a river
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A tale in memory of Sugar who fine tuned a song that changed my life...
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The night when not playing Zorba the Greek saved our lives
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Daily stories with Haji Mike a modern day Homer, who lived in Green Lanes...
