Trying these things out...

Well hello. I've no idea who will read this and am well aware that it subscribes to a number of things I'm not sure I agree with (notably that you want to do what I'm doing). However, I also think it could be an interesting thing to try for a bit, and so here it is. You've probably arrived here via my website, and to there you could have come from a number of places. I hope that a lot of you have seen me at a gig - to those, thanks for coming, and I hope you had a good time. At the moment, there's a little down time for gigs - I had one with Christi (www.myspace.com/christiandropolis) last Saturday at a craft fair in Alford, and it was actually very lovely. We were bought curry from a vendor/drag act/multi-instrumentalist, and played to an ever changing crowd of people who were trying to work out why they'd just bought a china dog.

In the next couple of weeks.. I finish recording on Tom's new album (www.tommcconville.co.uk), and Christi's album should be done and ready to be mixed as well. That'll be out on brand spanking new Furrow records, along with an official release for mine, followed up in the New Year by Emily Portman's debut album of her own songs (www.emilyportman.co.uk).

So that's what I've got to tell you just now as I sit at home, in the rainy North East of England. I hope the weather improves, but it works out a little better if you don't hope for anything of the sort.

All the best to you

Dave