14.10. 2011 Looking forward to playing the TEIGNMOUTH JAZZ FESTIVAL on Sunday NOVEMBER 20TH at the Oyster Catcher Cafe beyween 2.30 and 4.30pm. Did this gig a few years back and it was a stonking afternoon playing to a packed enthusiastic crowd. Sold a lot of CD's too !
21.3. 2011 LESTER RIDES AGAIN ! TO BE RE-RELEASED Just heard from MIKE VERNON that Ace are to reissue this album in the next couple of months. Recorded back in 1987 in the wastelands of Essex, in addition to JUNKYARD ANGELS who'd been on the road with Lester for three weeks, the 'Big Figure' from DR FEELGOOD took part in the sessions, as did members of Scots band BLUES N' TROUBLE. Much to Mike's delight the album went on to win a prestigious W.C. Handy Award in Memphis the next year, and was a watershed moment both in Lester's career marking his return to performing, and also kick started the return of the legendary Blue Horizon label. Great to have been part of it all.
JELLY ROLL - Are booked to appear at The Plymouth Barbican Jazz and Blues Festival 3.00pm on April 29th. Forget about the Royal Wedding and come down to the Barbican ! This will be the third year I've played at this great event which always presents a mind bogglingly fine array of artists over this long weekend.
MARCH 2011
My new all acoustic album 'Terlingua' will be out in the next weeks. Recorded with the help initially of Phil Beer of Show Of Hands fame, the project lay dormant until six months ago when - with the encouragement of Shaun Wells at Bunker Studios Honiton - I plucked up courage to lay down some songs, eventually finishing off with some sessions at PMC in Plymouth masterminded by 'Doc' Collins. Of the eleven tracks there are four non originals - East Texas Blues(The Grey Ghost), I Know I've Been Converted, Backfiring Now(Mississippi Sheiks) and Cherry Ball(Skip James) - the rest being my oen. Very excited about the project and I shall be getting out and about for the rest of the year seeing how the songs go down !
On another note if you've never heard my trio JELLY ROLL in action, here's your chance with this You Tube clip ! Recorded a few weeks back in downtown Exmouth, in the company of my trusty cohorts Craig Milverton on keys and Andy Mills Drums, you can hear us romp through that old Tampa Red love song 'Can I Play With Your Poodle ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTeYi5CuCKg
MAY 2009 
I've just played at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival alongside my old buddies TABBY THOMAS and CHRIS THOMAS KING infront of 3,000 people. An incredible gig, we kicked off the Blues stage which would later be used by the likes of Buddy Guy, with just ten minutes to get in tune, plugged in and work out the first two numbers ! The masterplan was for Chris to bring Tabby on after an instrumental and I'd sung one - so - Hideaway and a G shuffle seemed obvious choices. Fortunately I had Tammy - Tab's son - on drums, and another old buddy from the Blues Box days, holding down the Bass duties.
NOVEMBER 2008
A foray into Mississippi with Jeff Fuller results in us playing at Morgan Freeman's club Ground Zero in Clarksdale, and appearing on the King Biscuit Radio Show broadcast out of Helena Arks. I first met presenter Sonny Payne back in 1988 and he's still the lovely, engaging and fanatical music buff he's always been. Long may he reign !
FEBRUARY 2006
'MOJO GIVES THREE STAR REVIEW TO NEW DAVE BERRY ALBUM FEATURING JUNKYARD ANGELS AND PRODUCED BY JULIAN PIPER''
'Britain's most charismatic stage performer even influenced the Sex Pistols'
Berry
demands respect. Whilst other Rock'n' Roll acts from the '60's have
opted to become Working 
men's
club fodder, he's continued to accrue esteem. And this album, his first
since 1987 indicates nothing's about to change. Guitarist Julian Piper's
outfit The Junkyard Angels replace The Cruisers as Berry's road companions
for this trip and steer things along in authentic blues band mode, spewing
excellent slide throughout Mercury Blues and providing a righteous line
in harmonica and keyboard licks as Sheffield's original man in black delivers
his own particular vocal take on Rockabilly standards through to material
by J.J.Cale, John Hiatt, Dickie Betts and Tony Joe White. While there's
nothing particularly remarkable about Berry's voice, somehow he's always
been able to make the pieces fit.
Recorded in just three days some years back, this album has lain fallow until its recent release by the Blues Matters label. Produced by Julian at Dave Berry's request who knew of his successful work with American blues artists, the album presents a new and darker side of Dave Berry, far removed from the man who cut 'The Crying Game'. Featured on the album are old Junkyard members Jeff Fuller, Craig Milverton, Steve Ewart and Dave Eustace. To order your copy, please contact julian.piper@btinternet.com.
HEAR JULIAN ON THE AIR WAVES !
'DRIVING SOUTH'
Every other Wednesday evening between the hours of 6.00 and 8.00pm Julian hosts two hours of aural carnage ! Although the show nominally started life as a 'Blues' programme, everyone from Dick Dale to Charlie Patton, Ben Harper, the Black Keys, the Black Crowes, B.B.King can expect an airing. Soul brother Ian McKenzie performs a similar service at the same time on alternate Wednesday afternoons, and the whole shebang can be heard in the boondocks online through the Phonic FM website, or 106.8FM if you live in the thriving metropolis of Exeter.
JULIAN'S TRIP TO THE USA
Click here to read about JP's adventures in the land of the blues