A Passion for Country Music...

MIDDI IS WITHOUT DOUBT ONE OF THE UK'S MOST POPULAR, IF SLIGHTLY CONTROVERSIAL, COUNTRY SINGERS. OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS HIS UNIQUE SET AND LAID BACK, UPBEAT ATTITUDE HAS EARNED HIM A PLACE ON SOME OF THE BEST STAGES IN THE UK, EUROPE AND AMERICA. HE NOW SPLITS HIS TIME BETWEEN WORKING THE UK COUNTRY CIRCUIT AND HIS SUMMER SEASON IRISH SHOW IN ZAKYNTHOS, GREECE. MIDDI'S COUNTRY SHOW HAS BEEN BILLED AS ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE AVAILABLE, AS HIS SELECTION OF SONGS IS ALWAYS FRESH, NEW, UNUSUAL AND ABOVE ALL VERY, VERY COUNTRY. HIS INFLUENCES COME FROM THE NEW GENERATION OF SOUTHERN ROCKERS SUCH AS "BROOKS AND DUNN", "TRACY LAWRENCE", "ALAN JACKSON", "GEORGE STRAIT", "PINMONKEY", "AND RODNEY AIKINS". PLUS SOME OF THE OLDER GENERATION, THE LIKES OF "MERLE", "WAYLON" AND "WILLIE". IN THE SUMMER OF 2010 MIDDI WILL BE LAUNCHING HIS MOST UNIQUE SHOW EVER.

IT PROMISES TO BE ONE OF THE BEST NIGHTS OF MUSIC FOR OPEN MINDED COUNTRY MUSIC FANS - WHO LIKE SOMETHING DIFERENT!

a change is coming!, ARE YOU READY?...

IT'S SOMETHING I'VE ALWAYS WONDERED. WHY DO YOU BUY A TOBY KEITH CD INSTEAD OF A JOSH TURNER CD, WHY DO YOU LIKE LEE EVANS BUT NOT BILLY CONNOLLY, WHY DO WE WATCH A TOM CRUISE MOVIE INSTEAD OF A BEN STILLER FILM? - IT'S BECAUSE THEY HAVE DIFFERENT STYLES AND WE PREFER ONE TO THE THE OTHER, SIMPLE!

SO WHY DO COUNTRY SINGERS INSIST ON DOING THE SAME MATERIAL AS EVERYONE ELSE? HOW WOULD IT FEEL IF GEORGE STRAIT ONE NIGHT SAID I'M GONNA DO SOME HAL KETCHUM SONGS? - YOU'D BE MORTIFIED.

SOMETIMES IT'S A SAFETY THING, THE SINGER WANTS TO DO THE STUFF YOU KNOW AND LIKE (AND NORMALLY THE STUFF YOU KNOW THE DANCES TO!) BUT SURELY AT SOME POINT SOMEONE HAS TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

IN 1952 HANK WILLIAMS SAID "HERE'S A NEW ONE FOR YOU - IT'S CALLED YOUR CHEATING HEART" WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF HE'D NEVER DONE IT AND JUST PLAYED ONE THEY ALREADY KNEW THE DANCE TO??

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HEAR THE SAME SONGS WEEK IN, WEEK OUT? OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR SOMETHING NEW? SOMETHING FRESH? - THIS SUMMER I'M RELEASING A WHOLE NEW SHOW - 40 SONGS NEVER DONE BEFORE, ALL COUNTRY, ALL UPBEAT (GOOD DANCERS WILL HAVE NO PROBLEMS WORKING OUT DANCES FOR THEM)