Thanks for all those listening at Slaugham - it was a tremendous effort for everyone to stand in the rain and listen to me looping...! My laptop took a bath and has struggled to shake itself dry... but it was good to take the frustration out on the punchbag afterwards... I'm still wondering how i came to be alive in the 21st Century - the whole world seems to be in the throes of being absorbed by computers, but I still get the most satisfaction from bleeding my fingers over a Bert Jansch riff and wondering how he managed it... for your interest... Angie's the tune...
Next Gig at Slaughstock... the ears have been bleeding since the last gig, where i sang so quietly it hurt.... all men must kill the thing they love... it is important to move into old age without being able to hear a thing that anyone says... thus the archetypes and stereotypes are renewed and sustained in each generation... In this way did I learn to realise that nothing exists.
15th May - Come down to the Hidden Fruit Gig at the Old Blue Last on Monday night 21st May - I'll be first on playing a 40 minute set spraying notes at the Shoreditch masses with unrivalled talent and self-belief... the bands following won't know what hit them as my lyrical ingenuity and sheer multi-instrumental abilities give them nightmares... quaking as they follow in my wake, the cheering crowd will be too focused on elevating me to iconic status to notice that the other bands are playing, but in spite of all this I shall be found humbly smoking a cigar and imbibing the sacred tones of the wonderful acts to follow...
Don't let it be missed...
www.myspace.com/hiddenfruit
5th April... just posted a demo of SHAME ON YOU, a song you may have heard me play at gigs recently... sometimes you feel that people let you down in life regarding the choices they make, sometimes you let yourself down... i don't know who the song is for, but if they hear it they'll know who i'm talking to... unfortunately there's still no drummer but songs need heard... what's with this myspace 4 song malarkey? No good, no good.
30th March... Berlin forever...
CAFE ZAPATA supporting Myriad Creatures... here in Berlin to spend a few days with the magnificent creatures, a nocturnal crew of British mystics taking on the German masses in post-industrial fashion... check out their myspace in our top friends... British Airways managed to lose my guitar and harmonicas by sending them on a plane to Peru, so the day before the gig was spent in zig zag bicycle style talking Deutschglish to hardcore Berlin musos hunting blues harps and neckbraces that actually worked. Success at last allowed the gig to go ahead... A haphazard assortment of 200 Berliners and student pubcrawlers rammed into Zapata to witness the spectacle, and a liberation it was... playing Catastrophist, Lovers, What Kinda World, This Life, Helping Hand and Shame on you, in a 25 minute set - so refreshing to have such an audience- south-east england can be so jaded in comparison... The Creatures then rocked the house with an hour of madcap genius before we all took on the dawn together... again and again...
I'm currently working on this bunch of songs and trying to segue them all together in my studio before i get fickle... some old favourites, and new being wound together in an acoustic way to save my destroyed inner ear follicles from further suffering - blame Creel Commission, but war wounds are necessary for wisdom, or so i have heard...
25th March - I've posted HELPING HAND up... a song close to my heart... I think the lyrics speak for themselves, talking about music is like fishing about architecture... or so Zappa says anyway.
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