In May 2002, I released the album Comin'Round under the name YUKINA with a nod to the rent parties in New York during the jazz days when broke musicians would hold parties and play all night with everyone else throwing in a few bob so they could make their rent on time and avoid eviction. I had spent too much time making the album and had fallen behind in my own rent. I burnt a load of copies, had a friend in the advertising world do a cover for me and print a load on the sly, stuck 'em all together, sent everybody in my phone a text, and sold 149 copies at a tenner apiece. Paid off my couple of months with a bit to spare. I moved to a cheaper place and got my band together, even if it took a long time before the line-up settled down. As of March 2008, we're studio bound to finish Yukina's second album, All Summer Long.
