May. 25th, 2010

unclechristo: (tin whistle)
2 Govannen gigs in a row on Fri & Sat.

Fri
Middlethorpe Grange - a charity ceilidh in aid of http://www.sendacow.org.uk/ - a big do - 200+ - made for quite unweidly numbers of people dancing - but with caller Maca's skill it all went fine - late start tho and late finish and longish journey - - got home 2.30am - bed at 3.30amj after unloading and zoning out.

Sat
A return - our first of the year to Joules Yard - it had been a hriibly sunny day and a balmy evening for the concert so we were outside - we were all a bit knackered after the late finish of previous night's gig - especially Dan with his kids and rock school in the day. All went well, tho I;d've reather steered the set to posher, less crowdpleasing material coz we don't often have the chance to play to a listening crowd - tiredness prevailed and we went for an easy life. Sold 2 CDs :-)  

Came home and unwound by finishing the last episode of season 6 of my soap - Star Trek Voyager - I;ve been slowly working my way thru these for years - and now - just one series left...

Finished too the EP Thompson book The Sykaos Papers - quite an amazing sci-fi book - very English, funny, and moving - quite a meandering book - but moments of briliance - really should be better known - but Thompson was not a sci-fi writer , but a well known Marxist historian - si there's lots of satire here & there. Here's a review
Amazon has lots of 2ndhand copies for under a pound here

Sunday
I really don't like sunny weather so I mostly kept out of it til sundown. Started new book Jack McDevitts Cauldron - the last in the Hutchins series. In evening went for a stroll and ate at Poppadoms Indian restaurant which was great.

 

Clookai

May. 25th, 2010 01:18 am
unclechristo: (b&w2)
Clookai came round to work on her fairyland themed album that I'm producing. Producing rather heavily in this instance because I;ve written and played all the music so far - the task will be to get Clookai's voice and flute layered onto the music I have prepared. Pretty good day given the heat - 4 tracks of vocal work done. 5 to go on vocals, then flute to add. Got some good results with my harmonizer, using it in ways I haven't doen previously - i even had to resort to the manual!!

Was saddened to hear of the death of Ray Allen (and presumably Lord Charles as well) - great sketch here

I have a songs gig on Thursday so I;d better pick up the guitar again soon and get back into songs head.

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