About

Oliver Gray is a language teacher and writer of language teaching resources. His main passion is music, and this website hopes to give some enjoyment to visitors who share this interest. If you’d like to get in touch with Oliver to agree, disagree, discuss and generally swap yarns, he would be delighted.

BOOKS (all available from Amazon or through any good bookshop or by emailing Oliver):

VOLUME - A Cautionary Tale of Rock and Roll Obsession

V.A.C.A.T.I.O.N. -Cautionary Tales of Travelling Without Style

ALAB: Ain’t Life A Bastard - by Eddie Hardin and Oliver Gray - 30 years of musical mayhem

ACCESS ONE STEP - The Official History Of The Joiners Arms

The final chapter of Oliver’s first book, ‘Volume’, contains a list that covers about 70 percent of gigs Oliver attended between 1964 and the present day. To witness this list with your own eyes, please go to the Gig List page.

Oliver, with his friend Richard and wife Birgit, promotes “Americana” shows in Winchester. Further details at http://www.myspace.com/sxsc - See link on sidepanel

If you dare, there’s music by Oliver to be found at http://www.myspace.com/olivergraymusic  - See link on sidepanel

Not to be recommended.

This blog site contains a tiny fraction of Oliver’s music and travel writing. At one time or other, he has written for almost all the UK music magazines, plus various national, international  and regional newspapers and magazines. He’s been writing since the early seventies but the material here is more recent (i.e. written since the advent of computers).

Oliver’s day job is writing resources for language teaching. More info about this can be found at

http://www.revilolang.com