Just a note

Looks like rain again! cool, the garden needs it, and so do the worms. I am currently awaiting my wormery, with Tiger worms no less. They are stripey and prowl the undergrowth. They also provide excellent security. Once it arrives i will no doubt post a picture of it. But not the worms, they are too shy. To wet your appetite i've included two piccies of the wormery that was delivered but broken. The worms were fine.

Bit more recording

Recorded with King of Despair last weekend, some lovely vocals, keyboards, glockenspeils, percussion etc etc, a piccie of two mics, a prize if anyone can correctly guess the make and model of both, a lovely prize indeed!

A LP Li'l Ridge Rider cowbell

I'm selling this as it has a little split above the right hand rivet. The company i bought it from sent me a new one. It sounds great on New Orleans funk grooves, i'll have to play one for the record one day. I hope no one thinks i am touting for offers on this, it is just something i had a picture of that is quite close to my heart today. god bye.

More piccies from recording

Hi world. it little presumptuous i guess but fuck it. Recorded some awesome dawson electric guitars last Friday with lovely David Godwin getting all Keef. Paul did some acoustic and lovely it was. A couple of piccies from that, also Andy Morse with Jon and Chris came over on the Sunday and recorded three tracks, they seem very pleased with them. Great vocal sound i must admit, ah Neumann!!

More Recording

More recording tomorrow, lots of lovely guitars, here's a piccie of me drumming a couple of weeks ago

More Recording

Been recording with King of Despair weekend of 17th Feb, did 18 tracks of bass and drums, complaint from Gills (my neighbour) partner regarding the noise on Sunday pm, but the bass guitar (not Darren) was structually damaging!! but all bass done now. And it was well worth it, meaty meaty, great sound. Richard Jackson who has recorded Super Furries, The Automatic, The Caves plus many others did the engineering. Dai and Paul put down 6 tracks worth of electric guitar, so 12 more to go plus 18 tracks worth of vocals, acoustic guitar, cello, banjo, theremin, violin, keyboards etc etc. we should have a really good album at the end. perhaps even a double album! anyway here a some photos from that weekend.
Lovely!!

Bonne Annee

My new studio in the basement, done one recording already, and starting on King of Despair tomorrow. cool.

Time to go away again

Hello everybody.....after reading my friend Rhys blog about his lovely time in Portugal, i feel i must tell you about my forthcoming expedition to North Wales to play Irish music. A slightly ironic feel about the whole thing, but thats for me to know and you to find out, I'm playing in Y Ganolfan, Abergynolwyn, Tafarn y Fic, Llithfaen and Y Ring, Llanfrothen on 24th - 26th Nov. I look forward to the scenery but playing music in North Wales has not left me with many pleasant memories, hopefully things will be different this time. At least i'll definately get to watch the Wales v New Zealand match on telly, and then get pissed. Onward and upward, at least on the map.

Dentists and all that

Hello, Dentists, good or bad? I have had a bad time of it lately with the misanthropic greed of two dentist practices who have capacity for private patients but no capacity for NHS patients even though both my partner and I were on their books, they chucked us off! But would take us back as private! Its not as if NHS patients are treated for free, a small filling would pay the dentist at least £50 on the NHS, privately that would be around £90, a filling takes around 20 mins so you are looking at around £150 an hour for NHS dentists, even with overheads, staffing etc it's not a bad living. So its a case of having a very good living, NHS dentist, and having a fucking exorbitantant living, private dentist.
Anyway as a result of friendship, a dentist is now giving both myself and Manuela treatment as NHS patients. That is even better news as it also includes my 4 month old son, who couldn't get NHS dental treatment in Swansea, even though he is entitled to free care until age 16. I had a letter from my MP enclosing a letter from the AM responsible for NHS in Wales, an ex GP called Gibbons, in the garret, an oblique reference. He just stated that they had put blah blah amount of £Millions in to NHS care and that it was just fucking great. His final paragraph stated that there are no NHS dentists in Swansea currently, even for my son.

So thank you very much my lovely lovely new dentist and friend, and fuck you NHS, Private Dentist Bandits and all who live within your Habitat covered halls.

It's me now

It's me now not Manuela. Not that it was Manuela in the first place, as it has always been me. ME ME ME.

Saturday a funny day

it was and is Saturday, had tea and cake with Stuart Sutcliffe and Monica Geller, it was lovely. see you tomorrow