things to do

Lots on my mind this morning! The leftfield stage at glastonbury has a few open mic slots on Friday morning and Saturday monring and I really want to get a slot! I don't know the deal with trying to get one though. I think im just gonna go to the leftfield stage on Wednesday morning and see what the deal is and maybe sign up there and then.
I'd also really like to play on Worthy FM at some point over the weekend. I've emailed them to request a slot so here's hoping!
Also on my mind is recording new demos, fixing my laptop so i can finish mixing the demo of 'sunny side up' and In the City demo submission. I think i'm going to go record some demos in a proper studio in August sometime. I'd quite like to get a drummer in on the session, its been a while since i recorded anything with one!
Really looking forward to glasto, should be a cracking weekend and hopefully I'll get to play a few sets around the site!

Strawberry kisses at Strawberry Fair

Oops, I've been REALLY slack at updating this. I knew this would happen; it always does when I start a diary/blog. I eventually loose interest! Anyway - Played at both the Hide and Seek Festival and the Maps festival at the Castle hotel. Both were pretty good gigs, unfortunately I couldn’t stick around for the rest of the acts at Hide and Seek so I missed out on seeing what everyone else was like. Oh well. I'm not sure I'll be given a slot next year seeing as I didn’t attend any seminars. It was all a little bit too much like my uni course (it's not what you know its who you know - this industry is all about contacts darhling). Who cares?! Do it for the love of music or not at all! I'm not one for schmaltzing with contacts for the sake of making contacts even if it will benefit my 'career'. Hmm this may be why im not currently the superstar producer I set out to be!

Work - same old same old.



Also played at the bearded theory festival in the open mic tent run by my friend Spike. Was a good laugh although it descended into playing cover versions towards the end. Im thinking of including 'somebody kill me' from the wedding singer soundtrack in my set. Also tried to get on the blaggers stage at strawberry fair this weekend but got there far too late so ended up busking at the side of the stage to the bewilderment of many onlookers.

Plans for the next month or so: Play at the open mic tent at Peace in the Park in Sheffield this Saturday, goto Glasto, goto Roskilde & play the gig for Livespace in July, but hopefully I'll update before then. I'm thinking about recording a proper EP soon. Something to send off to the labels. (I've never send my music off to labels before, mainly because im a perfectionist and nothing ever seems good enough. I'll expect a barrage of rejection letters but hey at least I'll have tried right?