And another thing...

Whats happened

To line breaks?

Ah, found them :-)

Any light at end of tunnel.

Struggling at the moment.

Lots to be happy about, but you know me, always look on the dark side.

A new year has not made much difference, despite me trying to be more positive. I'm just generally cheesed off that the music side of things has ground to a halt a bit. My band are trying to record a new record at the moment and I'm working on it. I'm just not sure what we are going to do with it once its done. No one will care, even if its as good as Revolver!

I'm starting to have the feeling that the ship has sailed, as far as a musical career is concerned. How long should you keep banging your head against a brick wall? I dont want to end up being one of those saddos in their 50's still playing around crappy pubs. And its not as if we're being offered stacks of gigs. The last one was at a lovely venue that we've really enjoyed playiong at before. But this time, it was noisey and ours appears to be the only show that the venue havent put pictures of, on their website. Yet another example of the lack of respect we face. I just dont get it, I really dont.

I am going to go down to working 3 days a week soon, so I'm hoping in vain that will bring a little light and let me work on my music and ride my bike a bit more. On that latter subject, I am getting a new bike this coming weekend, a new Cotic. Lets hope I get time to ride it.

I've been worrying all the time about getting the dreaded sick bug too. What a knob.

And since the week before Christmas, my back has been driving me mad. So today, I have been to the Osteopaths and I'm hoping it helps. The guy also does NLP and he seems confident that he can help me psycologically! He started asking me loads of questions which made me realise how unhelpful some people close to me, have been threoughout my growing up. Its left me feeling a bit odd today if I'm honest and its a bit strange opeing up to a complete stranger. But if it helps.....

Do your best

All you can do, is do you best And if thats not good enough, Then you're fucked......

Hello Its been a while since I updated this thing. Real life you know..... The Nightwires have done a few shows including last weekend at the Y Not Festival. It was not as good for us a the first time we played in 2009 but it went ok. Pity the couple of hundred people in the teant we were playing in, buggered off to the main stage before we started but, hey ho, their loss. Well not really it was my loss, but I have to put a brave face on it. We've just been confirmed to be playign at the wirksworth festival in derbyshire in September so that should be good. It does really fuck me off that Russell and I have got nowhere with all this. I guess I'm jealous of much lesser acts who "make it" or get the recognition O/we deserve. I mean we get loads of people coming upto us after shows saying how good we are, friends and family genuinely think we're very good, but, alas no one who can help us onto the next level seems to agree. Maybe the right people havent heard us but, how long does it fucking take? We've been playing for 10 years and we're still playing the same shitty venues we've been playing from the start. How much longer can you keep doing that before you say, no more? I dont know but I'm starting to feel that point will come soon. We need to freshen things up so we're going to start recording in the next few weeks, if we can find time! That doesnt get any easier either. All I want is some public recognition that we're bloody good. and not let myself be wound up when I see shit bands getting better gigs than us. They're, in realtiy getting noweher just as we are. I need to change things and hopefully big changes are coming that will massively improve my quality of life. Fingers and everything else are crossed. But you know my luck........

Nice ride today, felt quite good. Amazing what a decent nights sleep can do for you.

I'll update this more often if I can. Changes afoot........

Christmas been and gone....

...where did it go. New Year:

New MacBook Pro and Apogee duet 2

New songs, both electric and accoustic

New outlook and positivity??

Been busy!!

Not posted for a while. Russ and I have been gigging loads so I've not managed much riding. However, I have obtained the following:

Hope R4 riding light. Not used it yet so report to follow

Iphone 4s. Not actually got it yet so should be picking it up tomorrow. Looking forward to finally getting on the Iphone train. All appled up now: iphone, iPad, Ipod and Macbook Pro!

Now the gigs have finished, I'm hoping to get lots of riding in. I need to clear my head. I love playing with the Nightwires but I'm really not sure if I can go on anymore with it. For the effort, we're getting nowhere. We played in Derby last week and it was a nice venue but so much talking, I found it really offputting. Cant people shut up for 5 fucking minutes!!

I'll try and keep this thing updated. It helps me.