i passed!
I passed my driving test yesterday, the 26th of march.
i'm so happy! i only got one minor and it was a sunny happy day. it feels so good to pass your driving test, i got a real sense of achievement. now all i need is to get a car and then i can drive it.

oh relief. i've can't believe the amazing beautiful spring weather we had last week. i went to the park with my dogs and just hung around in there for about 3 hours every day...while my dogs scavanged around for bits of food, tennis balls and leftover starbucks (i can't say i agree with their politics, but they are labs and to be honest, they'd probably eat your leg if it dropped off) max also found a hardly eaten ribena flavoured calipo lying around and gobbled that down too. all in all a great day. can't really say the same for the weather this week but i've been in my rehearsal room playing with a new 24 track anyway so i don't mind too much.

i've been fairly busy the last couple of months. i went on tour with the cribs for their uk dates
which were fucking great. you should be very excited about their new album. then i went to portland for a wedding. i knew a couple once who got married in space. they took off their space helmets and their heads popped exploding confetti into the universe. that, is how stars were made.

i've also been working very hard as a board member and director of the featured artist coalition. you may or may not have seen a few things in the press about it, we had our launch a couple of weeks ago now. i got involved last september and we're basically a coalition run by artists for artists to protect artists rights and to give them(us) a seat at the table...to have relationships with governments and get a say basically in what should happen to our music and how it's used/exploited etc. and how the industry is run. it's essentially taking responsibility for the work that you do. there's great people involved who i've been lucky enough to work with including billy bragg, dave rowntree and ed o'brien. it's been so educational and i've really got my politics head on, which my mum is pleased about. i even got a chance to have a sit down meeting with paul mccartney. a cup of tea with macca, i felt like lucy in the sky with diamonds i tell you, sitting there and talking about his experiences and listening to stories about him and john signing their deal and making sgt. peppers. wow wow wow. very happy indeed, what a priviledge. Anyway we had a very successful launch, i did a podcast with the minister of culture and we had a meeting a couple of days ago with a bunch of mps and people in the industry. i'm happy to say i think we're really being heard.

apart from that i went to a missoni launch dinner last thursday, which is very unusual for me because to be honest, i don't wear designer stuff. not being a vintage snob or anything, but you know i just can't deny my love for 2nd hand junk. but anyway they sent me this really pretty fine knit dress with these lovely pink and greens and a 60's sort of pattern and asked me to dinner, so i couldn't resist. i met mr. & mrs missoni who seemed lovely and we ate some delicious food. it was lovely.

ermm....anything else...i finished my book and would highy recommend it, billy childish 'my fault' i loved it.

i also went to see the lightning seeds gig at the hospital, 4 tracks from the new album. i'm looking forward to getting it and listening to that, all the sounds were so enriched and my ears wanted to eat them up. they had the most amazing sounding 12 string acoustic guitar, i've never appreciated a 12 string guitar before, i thought they were for wankers, but i was totally naive, it was beautiful. a slide guitar and one of those massive glocks, i forget their names, they had gorgeous organ sounds too and lovely old amps. loved listening to it. yeah, that stuff's highly recommended too. check it out.

i'm gonna post a few pictures cause i haven't in a while and then i'm going to bed. i had a friday night in front of the telly which was nice and i'm going to a walk from temple to trafalgar sq. tomorrow from 2, it's to raise awareness about autism. my cousin is autistic so my aunty is heavily involved and it's pretty close to home. anyone who is around, the support is very welcomed.

bye.x

tour














the thermals who are so good



yum!




ha! my friend gemma cairney on her very own tour bus her face on it! amazing! the only other bus i've seen with the passengers face on the side was boss hoss.
well done gem. listen to her on 1extra with trevor nelson.





in my missoni dress with my friend seb the mole.we got our pictures taken in the living room like it was prom





in america being a tourist




the jurassic park ride...i've actually dreamed of doing this since i saw it on newsround when i was like 12





america knows how to do peanut butter. i long for england to catch on





so cute!





and finally i found this picture of this lama and i want it so badly because then i can spin my own wool from my own lama and live the knitters dream.





night!