Month: April 2010

Some people just drive you mad…

OK, well I am still here just about, though feeling a little fragile at the moment.I have been giging a quite bit, between 2 and 3 gigs a week with Elephant Shelf & the Deltas so that’s kept me suitably distracted. I still don’t have much of a long term plan, but it seems to me that much of what used to constitute my life has  blown away on the wind somewhere.

An average day for me when not gigging  consists of about 3 hours of piano practice and maybe working on writing new material and working on ideas for demos.  Also updating web stuff, and trying to keep my rusting programming skills intact, so that if any freelance stuff comes in I am actually ready to roll. I do miss the routine of going to an office and the certainty’s that it provides.  Mood-wise I have been quite low on a couple of days, and that has made the day to day mundane stuff difficult to get through. I have lost a lot of confidence and really do feel that would be quiet a good idea to retire to bed and stay there most days.

With Jeanie Barton and her band, originally uploaded by diana99.

At the Music Palace, about 3 years ago watching Jeanie Barton do her thing.

The Cleavage of Death circa 2006, originally uploaded by diana99.

Another Blast from the past, filmed in a Pub in Holloway.
Gosh it’s all rather different now.

Its a blast from the past. Elephant Shelf back in 2008 I think at  the Unicorn Camden

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I have  just googled this and its very relevant to the way that I feel a lot of the time.

http://johnbokma.com/mind/depression-aggression.html

Well worth a read.

Yesterday wearing my Delta ladies hat I went with Vicky Martin  to play a gig at the Travellers Rest in Draycott, Derbyshire. Its a really smashing small pub venue that has a really good selection of live music most nights a week. Its was a Small but select gathering but a fun night. Very good beer too. I met Carol Borington  who writes for Blues Matters  and who had wandered over the boarder from Nottingham to see the Delta’s. I think she enjoyed it as she will be doing a review.   I recomend  visiting the Travellers as it has a brilliant selection of music on each week and they are a really friendly bunch.