
A couple of weeks ago I was whingeing about not being able to get going after Christmas, and this week it's a similar, but different whinge: so much is nearly ready to get going on! The new Trips and Falls album is being mastered and should be ready to assign a release date in the next few weeks, hopefully. Animal Magic Tricks is just agreeing the final mix and sequencing for her record, but we're still waiting on the last of the mixed songs to be approved by the lady herself before we can move on [...]

So, good people of the internets, this Friday I am going to be getting mind-meltingly bladdered at my works night out from about lunch time today, so my comments might go downhill even more sharply than usual this afternoon. Fortunately, it won't be the teeth-grindingly awful teambuilding nonsense implied by that picture because basically my work are a bunch of total pissants. So it will be drunken mayhem, which will be far better. We even have two new people to torment, which will be splendid. Mwaah hah haaa! Actually, we'll probably all be far too drunk to give them a [...]

My memories of Delakota are a bit blurry. They centre around a gig at The Blue Note (not the original Hoxton Square one – the strange two-floor place in Islington that got demolished to make way for that horrible shopping centre) sometime in the late 90s. I had already been out that evening, I think, and had had a few. After Delakota took to the stage my friend pushed his way through the crowd, several sheets to the wind. I don't really remember anything about the performance, though I do seem to remember that we danced like nutters [...]