After playing Mr Foleys (that's a bar in Leeds, not a person) last Monday I haven't done a gig since, but I've been so busy it's hardly been noticed. I've spent 10 years trying to do more gigs, then a few more, and if there was another day spare, maybe another one. I'm now enjoying the reverse process just as much!
I haven't been blogging all the evolutions of my career 'plan' but to summarise briefly I've arrived at the decision to do less gigs and to make live promotion more of a component of what I'm doing in total, rather than a whole issue on it's own. Moreover, it's about doing the right sort of gigs, the right ones for me. So if there were seven great gigs to be had every week I'd still be there. But I'm not so enthused these days about doing the wrong kind of gigs. You know, those where a few more brain cells get left behind each time!
The Stock Car season has started too. Which means I'm more inclined to pursue that particular hobby than do more gigs as well. This weekend just gone I was in Kings Lynn on Saturday and then overnighted there before moving on to Skegness on Sunday. I visit all the best places :) Especially in March when none too warm....bloody freezing in fact. I've always questioned the sanity of mountaineers, but standing out at the opening Skegness meeting of the season is probably quite similar! At least it didn't rain this time.
I've always enjoyed watching sport. I follow Rugby League too. And this weekend it fell that the Bulls played on Friday night, and that was a very exciting game! We won of course, which is why I can now call it 'exciting' instead of 'crap' (no matter how exciting) if we'd lost.
Anyway, I digress. This week I'm playing solo at The Hop in Wakefield on Thursday night (11th), which will be a full set of covers and originals. I'm also working on some exciting new projects which will come to fruition in the fullness of time...in between standing outside in Lincolnshire.
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