So.….. these new recordings have been a long time promised and a long time coming. It’s a long story and I won’t go into the details. Let’s just say getting this album done is proving a bit of an adventure. I’ve been running round London with the only copies of music on a cheap little hard drive pressed inside my inner jacket pocket - hustling my way around - despeartly trying to find people who’ll have me in their studios - rounding up musicians like the magnificent seven - pulling favors left right and centre.
Every day is a struggle at the moment to get this thing done. Uploading and editing tracks from Camden to Soho to Ealing. Once this albums done it’s likely to have been recorded in about twenty different studios with as many producers and musicians - every single one of whom I am very grateful too- Strummerville not least who have come to my rescue time and time again.. Bare with me friends. By hook or by crook and with a little luck there will be be some more tracks up soon.
The minute it’s done I’m moving out to Paris where I plan to live on cans of beans and cheap wine and get writing again. I can’t fucking wait.
Hard times for us all at the moment I guess- no money, no funding, no deals, no advances, nothin - but hell I can’t complain. The sun is shining - bands and new music is fucking flourishing everywhere. Feels like we’re all hovering on the precipice of something big though no one knows what. Exciting times if tough.
I’d be lying If I said I wasn’t having fun.
Jackie Wilson once said something like -
‘ Just cause you can’t see the road, don’t mean it ain’t there’.
I like to keep that one somewhere in the back of mind these days.