Days

Funny how it feels like a day off, which it is I suppose. I’m at home as we don’t start recording till tonight and then it’s mostly drum revision which is frankly best done by drummers. We’re also rehearsing via MP3 tutorial interface our new bass player Jules who is currently adrift in the sorry south, Brighton to be exact, and gagging for a return to the hallowed north. And we do like to be beside the cliches...so who can blame him? Brighton was the worst gig we played on the last tour, I was knackered; eating from a pan of week old pasta gave me food poisoning which didn’t exactly help. Jules used to be in a couple of semi popular beat groups you might have come across before, namely, Marion and Electrafiction. He’s also a bit of a Johnny Handsome according to Jamie and quite possibly younger than Craig though why this should be of interest to anyone I really have no idea. It just seems to be what gets mentioned. None of us have met him yet and the first BBC session to support the album release is on 27th of this month which is earlier than we'd have liked but there are organisational complications [aren't there always] so I figure we just about have time to bed him in before the deep end, which probably reads wrongly so I’ll move swiftly on. A few people have enquired as to which dates we are doing on the Durutti Column tour as there seemed to be some confusion. I can now say for sure that it’s just the first four gigs in Manchester, Birmingham, London and Nottingham. In all likelihood these will be solo shows with the possible exception of Manchester. Hope this clears up any misinformation. At the beginning of next month I’m off to Ireland for 3 solo gigs, details will be posted as soon as confirmation is received, Vinny x