Guitar man to move on

THE estate of the late Jimi Hendrix is worth an estimated $300,000 million and growing, while the bass player with the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience band is selling up his Irish home for the last 29 years to trade down to a cheaper place.

Bass player Noel Redding has been living in Ardfield, near Clonakilty in West Cork since the early 1970s, having stumbled on this ancient seaside residence on Christmas Day - his birthday.

Redding’s musical roots may be rock and roll, but his physical roots are now in West Cork soil: he says he is looking to buy a much smaller home in the hinterland as he puts Dunowen House, possibly dating as far back as 1680, on the market. “My lady, she’s into the garden, I do the hoovering, but we don’t need a place this large,” he says in a droll insight to the domestic life and times of one of the 1960s biggest rockers.