No gigs last week, so it falls to me to open the blog out a bit and talk about something else. Not that I'm complaining about not having any gigs in a week, it's no longer quite such a priority to be out all the time. I've done enough of that lately!

It was my mum's birthday yesterday, it was one of those landmark ones, somewhere between 59 and 61. We had a party on Saturday night. In fact, I tell a lie about gigs, because I played one song at that! Everybody wanted me to do more, but I just did one. I wish every 'gig' was like that! I played Walking in Memphis by Marc Cohn, as it's one of her favourite songs. We had a superb evening, with lots of family and friends present, some who we haven't seen in a long long time, in one case 20 years! It got me thinking more and more about how important it is to keep in touch with people. There are enough idiots in life to make it all the more important to keep aquainted with those who you get on with to start with!

I wish I saw more of these people, we're not a close family geographically but when we do get together we tend to pick up from where we left off last time.

So that was another Saturday night where I did as I pleased, instead of playing a paid gig that I probably wouldn't have enjoyed as much. I've spent years not having what you'd call normal weekends, and now I'm enjoying having them. For a long time, my weekend started on Monday and lasted til Friday, which was very nice, but a totally different routine. Then I've had busy weeks followed by very busy weekends. And that just makes you knackered. So it's nice to have a weekend I can call mine. In fact, this one coming up isn't much different. My band is playing at The Hop in Wakefield on Friday night but then the rest is clear.


GREATEST HITS MEDLEY ON MYSPACE

If you click onto my myspace page, you will find that the first song on my player is now a compilation of 5 songs, faded in and out in snippets of about 45 seconds each. This is available to download for free and includes excerpts from the songs 'Cold Cold Day', 'Young, Lost And Hopeful', 'Your Shadow', 'Money From The Satisfied Man' and 'It Will Pass'. The download is really aimed at newcomers to my music, so that you can have a broad overview of what I've done without having to trawl through full-length songs. But, seeing as all you blog readers are avid converts with full collections, you won't need to bother with this, will you? will you...