White Knight Records - [Release date: 7 November 2025]

Multi-instrumentalist Peter Jones’s star has been on a meteoric rise since he became part of progressive rock royalty Camel in 2016 – and just in case you doubt his abilities, check out Camel’s sensational ‘Moonmadness – Live At The Albert Hall’ from 2018.

Tiger Moth Tales is his soubriquet and main interest, but such are his talents, along with Camel, he also plays with Red Bazar, Bardic Depths and Rob Reed’s Cyan.

‘Cocoon’ was Tiger Moth Tales debut album in 2014 and ‘Live At Trading Boundaries’ is a live performance celebrating its ten year anniversary.

This double album features a solo set by Peter with tracks from various TMT albums, plus a full, warts and all, band rendition of ‘Cocoon’.

Trading Boundaries, in Uckfield, East Sussex, is gaining a reputation as a top venue for live music and what sounds like a healthy crowd was there to enjoy, with one caveat, a great evening’s entertainment.

Peter Jones is a good, if self-deprecating, raconteur and front-man and there was good banter with the crowd from the get-go – always a good thing (are you listening Todd Rundgren?).

For the solo set, the piano-led ‘Spring Fever’ kicks the show off with a great song, though, to these ears, the piano is too high in the mix and makes it sound like Jones is thumping the keys a little.

Things improve with ‘The Lock Keeper’ which sounds like a Big Big Train song, and, as things would have it, the follow-up ‘We’ll Remember’ is a touching ballad dedicated to the memory of the (sadly) late BBT stalwart David Longdon.

‘Match Girl’ and ‘Hygge’ are both lovely tunes, but what follows is one of those “what the f*ck was he thinking” moments – and Peter Jones knew it, as he confessed that he had to play it solo as even the band hate playing ‘The Island Of Witches’.

Although technically brilliant, with startling sound effects, the spoken word sections are akin to being read a fairy tale on Jackanory, and the music is a test of anyone’s patience, not least as it drags on for over twelve minutes.

At the end of it he said to all those audience members who had found their way to the bar that it was “now safe to come out” – which says it all.

The run through the rest of ‘Cocoon’ is a real treat though, with first-class renditions of the progressive ‘Overture’, the classic fourteen minutes of ‘Tigers In The Butter’ with its initial Indian vibe and stellar guitar from Andy Wilson, and the mournful ‘The First Lament’ with yet more Floydian guitar from Wilson.

The English whimsy and music-hall bawdiness of ‘The Merry Vicar’ is wonderful, as is the bucolic ‘A Visit To Chigwick’ – reminiscent of thatched cottages, Trumpton and Ladybird books – and a fitting conclusion to the fine album that is ‘Cocoon’.

Encores ‘Return To Chigwick’ (written as a paean to the original) and ‘Still Alive’, from the album of the same name close out the gig nicely and to rapturous applause.

A top, top recording of an excellent gig, made even more amazing when you consider the fact that Peter Jones has been blind since the age of one.

I’ve no idea how he does it. ****

Review by Alan Jones

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