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Monday 24th March 2008
This is Andy - Footprinter, mountain leader extrordinaire, climbing renegade, and all round lovely chap. He's been away in Scotland for the week with some friends and he emailed me this photo today. I don't know where on this fair isle it was taken, but I'll be moving there just as soon as I can find someone to take my room here and to replace me in my bands....
Room in yard for rent.....
Sunday 23rd March 2008
This shot was taken at about 7.30 on Sunday morning, walking back from the party through Hyde Park with my pal Tom. To be fair, blogging it as Sunday is a bit of a blag, as it was really still a continuation of Saturday night, but this way, you get to see where we partyed on Saturday, and the lovely snow that was all over the yard come sunrise, but had all but melted by about 9am.......
Blink and you'll miss it
Saturday 22nd March 2008
This gig was ace - We set up in the labyrinthine basement of a massive old house on Chapeltown road and rocked it up to people from all over the place at about 1am - I even did a bass solo..... Then a Tatu Caretta/Navigantes hybrid band jammed for hours after us (Ollie and Glynn's sax/trumpet trade offs took me on a journey, as did Andre's animalesque bass chops), Lee played an immense breakbeat techno set, and we had snowball fights as the sun came up. Fair play to the Geordie and her dancing crew for organising such an immense house party, so glad, that this time, when all the folk had cleared out, it wasn't our yard that was an absolute state.....
Just hammer a bit of jif round the surfaces, it'll be reet
Monday 17th March 2008
Playing bass in Transpangaean is a very different discipline to playing in Vessels. We're doing a house-party next Saturday as a three-piece (MacSween is deputising on keyboard at a gig in the Midlands that may or may not be for Mike D'Abo from Manfred Mann's band) and Graham is insistent that I do a couple of bass-solos. The prospect terrifies me, but, if executed well, they would undoubtedly improve our show and push me further as a player - thus I pledge to play with this little lady every night this week before I go to bed, no matter how tired I am, until I have some good licks prepared for Saturday.....
Bassplayer for sale????
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