London Calling

Been home for a week now and finally catching up on much needed rest....as the saying goes " things in motion, stay in motion" so after a little respite i'm ready to get back to work...Heard the first round of mixes for the album and i'm quite pleased...a few things i want to revisit...some minor tweaking...maybe one structural change...but other than that its good to go....Heading back to LA on the 25th..got a show out there the 28th and doing a three song set at some other club on the 30th....Still undecided how much of this stuff to play live...i hate debuting songs 5 months before the album comes out...but i'm anxious to start playing them..however i think i'm inclined to hold off on them at least for a few more months....i'll try and take pleasure in alot of the songs i've been playing, cuz a good portion of them...will be put out to pasture...and may be some time before they ever see the light of day again....Getting all the paper work ready for England...amazing the amount of forms to fill out and visa stuff etc....David in England has been such a great help on that end as well....
There is some tentative plans of going to Ireland in October to do some dates opening for Nick Kelly who is quite the star over there....so that too would be quite a thrill....
Started reading the Studs Lonigan trilogy...by james t farrell...pretty cool actually....a gangster in new york had told me to read it years ago...i bought it but never openend it...but its really quite good thus far...
Getting all ready for Sheffield Garden walk..playing with Nick Kitsos, Dominique and Heather....been wanting this festival for quite a number of years...so hope its as cool as i had made it out in my mind to be...
Hope everybody is doing well.,...and finding time to smell the flowers...

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