Welcome back to my blog......I'm sure you are by now suffering from serious withdrawl symptoms due to the lack of a blog last week....and also am sure you are literally cross-legged with curiosity to know what I've been up to in the past 2 weeks. I also dream of winning the lottery and marrying Christine Bleakley.

So where to begin, so much to tell. I think we're back into the week leading up to Easter. I just did one gig that week at the Bay Horse in Lindley, Huddersfield. This was solo and, in common with the band gigs in the past there, was absolutely no different to the previous occasions! By which I mean it was deadly quiet with no real interest in what was going on. I played a fairly satisfactory set but one has to wonder how the pub has managed to run live music nights for so long. I guess it's not my call to reason why as long as they continue to book me. To be fair, the owners are lovely and they at least thought I was good :) So it can have a 5 out of 10.

That was Easter Saturday. The previous night I celebrated that well-known miracle. Yes, a Bradford Bulls victory over Leeds. The team is still rubbish but at least I can paritally avoid the total ridicule of losing to our dear neighbours (bastards). The rest of the weekend was motorsport orientated and then it was off to the East coast for a couple of days' break. Ah yes, Whitby looks beautiful so I'm told. A pity as the whole coastline was covered in mist for 3 days and I couldn't see a thing....the sea sounded pretty good though.

Refreshed from 3 days of poor air quality we returned to work on Friday night (the 17th) with the band playing at the Bridge Tavern in Bradford. This was poor quality of a different kind. Yes, another dead night playing to a handful of souls, some very nice, some not so. Each song greeted by a spontaneous round of indifference. In the second set, which is usually the worst on these sort of nights, I found the band actually sounded marvellous and I closed my eyes and dreamt of that far-away day when we get to play to a packed crowd. We sounded fucking amazing and with nothing to lose it at least salvaged something from the night. I'd give it 6 from 10, normally it would have been a 4.

I often read marketing tips for musicians. They all tend to mention stuff in the context of a certain type of gig. Things like 'your merchandise stall' and 'your fans' and 'fans' email addresses'. I wonder how to work this into some of the shows I do!! The scenario is very different. Perhaps there's a lesson to be learnt about what type of gigs we play, but then given the state of things at the moment, it's not that easy to alter.

Anyway, at least the weather has been nice today! It makes a difference. This week gets quite busy later on with a solo gig at The Primrose in Leeds and the band are out in Meltham on Friday.