See below for details of Chris's session on Radio 1 tonight (Tue 24th Jan), congratulations Chris from all at Ballagroove!! Here's part of an e-mail Chris sent us :-

(hope he doesn't mind us putting it up)

"Just before Christmas I did a session for Radio 1. If you're interested in hearing it, it's being broadcast tonight (Tuesday evening) from 11pm on Huw Stephens' OneMusic programme.

We did 4 songs live at Maida Vale on December 21st. The band was Steve Gilchrist on drums, Jen Macro and Tim Victor on guitars, Jon Clayton on bass, Gill Sandell on piano & keys and me playing guitar and singing. Tim played harmonica on one and everybody sang, including Lucy Parnell, who only came to hang out.

It's a bittersweet thing, though. I'm excited to hear the songs, I think we nailed them. But this is what would've been a 'Peel Session' so it's both the fulfilment - and not the fulfilment at all - of a lifelong dream.

Anyway, if you're not asleep, out partying or watching Big Brother, listen to Radio 1 tonight and hear me tick off another box. Or use the BBC's fantastic online 'Listen Again' facility." (EDIT: 1st is around 0:25:30 in, then 1:03:00, 1:25:30 and lastly at 1:46:00)

Chris's bandmates for the session are from the following acts:

Stuffy & the Fuses (Drums, Guitar)

The Broken Family Band (Piano)

Timothy Victor (Guitar, Harmonica)

More info on Chris T-T himself:

http://www.christt.com/

http://www.myspace.com/christtuk

Just a quick post to wish all our friends and family a Happy New Year and all the best for 2006! Fingers-crossed it's going to be an exciting year for Ballagroove with a few very special gigs on the cards as well as new albums from 'ingie, Cocahiba, the Tholtan Builders, Gratiz 3, and Rhysical Pheck, maybe even a few others! Looking forward to it already