Govannen - Send a Cow and Joules Yard

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

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.