Hypnotize the cat itch out of me

You know you are back home in sunny Hull when you hear some rough looking bird tell her fella…” so ‘e ‘it ‘er … then ‘e took ‘er valium off ‘er … blah blah”…

Since getting back from the big trip I have spent a lot of time trying to re-adjust to the British culture so I watched Wimbledon and saw a brave Scot…I mean Brit go out in the semis. I had some gigs in lovely Lancashire and Garstang, the latter in a proper English pub next to a canal with boats and fishermen. It gave me a chance to be re-united with two welsh girls from my travels. Heather with the unshaved thighs, appeared on the Jay Z introduction montage on the big screen at Glastonbury saying… “Jay Z and Glastonbury is like Jam and Marmite”…class. I played the Riversway festival and saw a lot of people in Lycra, a steam train and was proper blown away by Prestons Mobius Loop..sounding something like a mix of Coral, Gomez, Eminem and Ska and Dan Wild a talented, young, voice-angel geezer with finger pickingtasticness.

I went over the Humber bridge and ate luverly curry with 10mm Dowel and Lisa (old work chums) Ended up negotiating to record some vocals in a squash court which belongs to mate Eugene. It turned out spooky!

I played a gig at Zest cafe bar which was my first homecoming show in Hull at the very cool Kick out the jams night. Unfortunately the temporary venue, is like playing inside a concrete box. It was one of those where the louder yer play, the louder some people talk. At least I had angel beast Channy accompanying on backing and guitar. Thanks to legendary Smudge who jumped behind the mic aswell to shake a tub of rice and do some vox in a bee gees style. Some very very nice people came from different places to see me…sorry about the conditions…i luv you very much yer buggers.

Since being back I have recorded 5 live acoustic tracks for release later on. I will stick a sampler up for yer to hear asap. I fly back to Japan on 4th Oct for another tour and to begin work composing for a Contemporary Dance project in Tokyo which should be interesting.

I went to London for a bit of a mooch last weekend to try and get a gig. Had a great yarn with a chap running a stall on Spittalfields market. I went to meet the Devon crew and played at a Birthday party next to an Idyllic Estuary at Exeter in the sunshine with a big BBQ. Joy. The moon came up and I swang on a swing and camped in a tent. Then in gratitude for playing, Mark and Mel treated me to a go at wakeboarding. I was hardly championship standard. Spent a lot of time SAT in the water. When I eventually got on my feet it was a bit good.

Next week I am gonna be getting hypnotized by me mate James’ housemate Ali. He reckons he can cure me of my cat allergy. I went round to the house the other day for a practice and I kept being attacked by Ali’s kitten. I left wheezing and itching and with strange lumps on my back. Nice. Through the power of hypnotism that can be sorted apparently. Hopefully he wont twist up my mindframe. I got enough issues as it is. Ftang ftang ole biscuit barrel.

I will be playing at the Golden Fleece in Nottingham soon and for the first time perhaps it might be a full band??!!

The worm follows the patter of rain

The bird waits to swallow up the worm

Snap that beak off and a surge of worms….

an excess of worms….

willl come to be…

living comfortably.

This entry was posted on Monday, August 17th, 2009 at 3:05 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.