It's late... Very late. Tomorrow I am up early for a meeting about the website design, CD cover design for our EP, and music video ideas. I look forward to finding out what Amy and her gang of design scientists have invented. My week off has made me feel recharged like you wouldn't believe.
The last time I was with the guys was at the Grey Horse gig at the end of last month. I did bump into them whilst they were coming out the studio, Dave was straining as he attempted to slide his piano into the back of his car. For a tiny moment I thought 'oh shit. They've quite. They are packing their stuff and have quit the band'. Luckily that thought was soon squashed but replaced by the even darker thought 'oh shit. They are doing a gig without me!!' As it so happens neither of those paranoid ideas were true and to be honest I can't quite remember where it was that they said they were going, mainly because I was distracted by their bragging of how much work they had done while I was away.
Encouraged by their enthusiasm I have since been working a fair bit myself. The last two days I have been trying to build up our Facebook page and making it even easier for us to update. In the next day or so it will be set up so that we can upload our gig dates on one page and it will instantly update on Myspace, Last.fm, etc. This could, however, potentially lead to us being lazy with our promotion of gigs. It would be very easy to fall into the trap of spending two minutes adding the new dates on one place and assume that is all we have to do.
Pete has been badgering the local printed press to try to get our faces slapped into a few newspapers, so we can promote our supporting slot for the Acoustic Ladyland gig. Also, I contacted a couple of county radio-stations. Fingers crossed but not holding my breath at the chances of us gazing into the eyes of Chris Moyles in the morning... now there's a sweet image!
