Last Week:

Watched a lot of tennis, watched a bit of football, enjoyed the pleasant weather, oh and wrote a few songs for what will be my 4th solo album, I'm really happy with how they've come together.

This week:

Time for a gig again with the Abbey Inn Festival this weekend. My set is on Friday evening (July 2nd) between 6 and 7 pm. The Abbey Inn at Bramley has run this 3 day festival of beer and music for the past few years and each year it seems to grow in strength. I've been fortunate enough to play at the past 3 events and am looking forward to this one. Let's hope it's decent weather!

A-Z of Music:

I mentioned last week that I'd begun to listen to 'Cloud 9' by George Harrison. The album has really grown on me in the past week with 'When We Was Fab' becoming a real favourite of mine. I'm already sold on the Jeff Lynne production, for obvious reasons being a big fan of all his producer-writer collaborations.

I think the zenith of my new-found love for this album was on Friday when I watched the video of the above song on YouTube. You must check it out sometime!!

I'm also now listening to an early Paul Carrack solo album called 'Groove Approved'. It's a pre-hat and pre-baldness album from about 1986. It sounds a bit dated but still quite exciting. I'm yet to see if 'Don't Shed A Tear' is on this CD as that was a favourite of his from that era.


Rant Of The Week:

I could mention dis-allowed goals, I could even mention inept Bradford Bulls performances, but I'd like to have a go at FACEBOOK.

Up until mid-way through last year, there were still more people worldwide on Myspace than Facebook. This has since changed and so with myspace feeling distinctly less busy I decided to have a presence on both pages. More people on FB, meaning more potential fans for my music...or so I thought.

It now seems that the last thing Facebook wants you to do is add friends, heaven forbid someone you don't already know.

I've recently been blocked from adding friends on Facebook. The best thing is, I only added 3 people before I got an anti-spam warning, followed by a ban lasting 'anything between a few hours to a few days'....well that's very precise!

The trouble is that instead of letting the site police itself, always the best way, they have set in place a draconian system. Myspace has addressed all these problems, and whilst it has plenty of spammers, you can easily delete them, block them or report them. They also have a daily limit on the number of friends you can add. This is much fairer than Facebook's policy which it says is based on how quickly you add them rather than an exact number. Exactly how quick is too quick?? It doesn't say.

So I may well not bother much with this site. After all, there's still a good few million on myspace, more than enough to be going on with for the time being. And at least it was set up by musicians with musicians in mind.