waiting for Louisiana...

I'm sure they said 5pm soundcheck!

We made lots of mistakes, but judging by reactions appear to have compensated with enough passion...

JR has done another song which he is only calling 'Slow One' for now. He is reluctant that it goes public. So you should join me in nagging him to finish it and put up on MySpace.

We are breaking the Louisiana-cycle and appearing at The Croft on November 14th :) Further details as we discover them ourselves... ;)

I played a solo acoustic set at The Croft in Bristol last night. It was very short notice, the original support for Daisy Chapman had pulled out due to illness so I stepped in, thinking it'd be a bit of exposure and a chance to promote the upcoming Oct 8th Louisiana gig. Which it was.

Not sure if the promotion will come to much as the audience was pretty sparse and incredibly unresponsive. It was weird! Never really experienced an audience that quiet before. I mean, they clapped and everything and I think they generally enjoyed it...it might have been because they were mostly at the other end of the room and I couldn't see their faces all that well. Difficult to judge how my amusingly feeble banter was going down. "This one's for all those who don't want to go to work tomorrow!" I cannot belieeeeeeve I said that! What a twat! Goodbye moody art-pop bloke, hello village hall cabaret arse. Cabararse, possibly. Thanks very much to those people who came to support me anyway, without you lot I'd have felt a bit lost.

Playing solo was a bit odd, I haven't done that in a while. Didn't not enjoy it exactly, but I still like having Mark and Jon on stage adding their inimitable stuff. And there's comfort in hiding behind noisy amplifiers! Not that I ever make mistakes. No. Not me.