Leezure time

Off work today for a week, with a view to

• clearing up my shambles of an office
• practising for the Elemental Arts festival at the weekend: a long set of acoustic songs on Friday and if the weather’s good WaveForms on Saturday afternoon
• a couple of appearances on local radio station Jubilee, broadcasting during the local Fair week; I was on Mark Gorman’s midnight to 2am show, rabbiting and playing a track of my own (Winter Sky), one by Impossible Songs (Time of your Life) and a desert island disk (Mike Heron’s Feast of Stephen)
• rehearsing with Nelson for our spot at the Book Festival on Aug 26th
• mixing and editing the recording I’ve thrown together of Another Man for eventual free download here
• … and whatever domestic duties are seen as appropriate for me by those who make such decisions.

The odd Festival spot seems to be on the cards: compering and playing The Listening Room on the 26th, a comedy and music night called Taking the Mic on 31st, and a possible WaveForms at St John’s Church, to be confirmed. Just lucky, I guess.