It hardly seems 2 minutes since last Wednesday, and yet here it is again already.  The Jubilee weekend has been and gone and now we're already on the verge of looking forward to Friday!  Bless you Your Majesty.
I didn't see too much of the celebrations, and virtually none of the big concert.  It was good just to have a few days to myself (with the exception of Sunday...see below).  On Tuesday I went from place to place around the Trough Of Bowland, a truly magical part of the UK, and one which still largely seems undiscovered...I should keep quiet about it in that case!

Gigs:
Of course no British bank holiday weekend is complete without torrential rain.  This was certainly true of Sunday, the same day I happened to be playing an outdoor gig!   I was playing at Barwick-in-Elmet for part of the Big Lunch/Jubilee weekend.  I was playing undercover (a tent I mean, not an alias), so on that score there were no problems.  It was just going to be the audience that got wet!  I have to say I was amazed that there were so many people at the festival.  It rained continuously throughout and even came on harder during my set.  I played for an hour expecting very few people to brave the conditions.  I'm so glad to report that many did stay and see it through and I must say I've had far worse audiences indoors!  So a big thank you to the crowd for supporting my set.  I know I moan a lot but I do always appreciate people listening to what I'm doing, but I would say even more so on this occasion due to the beautiful British weather!

There's no gigs this week due to the short turnaround into the weekend.


Studio
I've been enjoying some writing time recently too.  I mentioned last week the huge backlogue of material so it was good to just delve into several sets of lyrics and make some progress.  The songs cover various genres and so will have varying end results.   All in all though it was productive and will leave me plenty to do in the coming weeks!


Listening to music
I've been listening to quite a range of songs this week too.  I started out with an ABC album entitled 'Up' (I was driving past Sheffield at the time so it seemed appropriate).  I was also listening to Runrig's 'Searchlight' album.  It's been a fair number of years since I heard any of their music and it's amazing to remember now that I saw them live several times back in the 90s.  I enjoyed the anthemic quality of the songs, definetly another to play at top volume.  I'm now on with a David Byrne solo album called 'Rei Momo' which is largely latin based music with lots of typically quirky lyrics over the top.  Quite a diverse selection I'm sure you'll agree but actually they were all released in the same year.


See you next week,
Paul