Another heavy week of gigging, which has again delayed progress on the new album, now I know how Pink Floyd felt. (Their albums were always delayed and taking forever, although there the similarities with my career abruptly end).

We start off on Friday at Hoagys in Leeds, with my band playing there for the first time. We had a new drummer for the evening too. Not a bad night, it wasn't overly busy but those that were there had a good time.

On Saturday we had our second innings at the Cricketers Arms in Keighley. (don't worry, that's the end of the cricketing analogies). This is a venue that continues to amaze me. It has sort of crept up on us, a really good venue that until a few months ago I knew little about. Now we've had 2 really good gigs there, and we've only been twice!! Without meaning to offend anyone, and you know I'd never do that on here, Keighley isn't exactly known as a hotspot for a good night out, let alone with live music involved. This venue puts all that straight in one go-it was a superb crowd and it was so easy to feed off that energy. If, as seems likely, we lose one of my favourite venues in Leeds, this one goes a long way towards making up for that.

On Sunday afternoon we played at one of our longest standing venues in Berry Brow, the Railway. It's still a tight squeeze getting in but once in we make a good sound and the crowd are very supportive, including for the original material of which we did 7 of my songs. We generally get a good reception there, in one case a little too enthusiastic. The sight of male nipples is one I don't want to see at too many gigs!

Guy Babylon RIP

I was shocked to hear last week of the sudden death of Guy Babylon, who was Elton John's keyboard player for many years. He was at all the gigs I went to, including one just before Christmas. It's a big big shame, as it seems only too recently that Rick Wright and Billy Preston passed away.