Things move on. We've recovered the Pro Tools files that were somehow contaminated in the recording studio. Fucking hell. Thanks to the wisdom of Julian Kanevsky, our intrepid collaborator on lead guitar, who was wise enough to save the files on his own hard disk...and in the end,  perhaps, it's not so bad. It may have been a good time to spend 6 weeks away from the recording. I'll have to re-do my guitar parts...but that may be an ironically good thing, since I'll have the chance to play behind Julian's parts this time...several gigs coming up...we haven't played since Manchester fully 6 weeks ago, but recent rehearsals have been solid...a few new covers (semi-psychedelic version of All Tomorrow's Parties)...luckily, you can't stop the days...which flow by "like a broken down dam"...and a good thing too!