A wobbly start to the month. The overwhelming urge to hibernate is getting really strong at present. A few minor tech problems hit my music making, but I think I have got it licked now. Well almost so we will see. Cubase has decided to crash randomly and I think it is a driver error but who knows. That is why I tend to stick with hardware based recording systems most of the time now.

Well, was trying to gird up my folky loins for this evening with the Invisible-folk-club-band. Sadly the weather beat me into submission, due to storms and flash flooding everywhere so I decided to not be be stupid and turn back. Can’t win em all but it’s going to be raining on and off all night and I really don’t want to get stuck out anywhere in the middle of nowhere on my own. Hopefully the Christmas tree fest in Olney tomorrow will go a little better (it did though even that was problematical). I hate to miss a gig but that’s life I guess. I have only missed about 5 over 20 years plus or so I guess its Ok. “You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em Know when to walk away and know when to run”…I do feel a bit less invulnerable recently, its age I guess.

I have been thinking I must transcribe a few of my less obscure songs and do few at the odd open mike next year maybe? I have a lot of stuff which I work on and record and then promptly forget. So thats my next trick I guess. Something to work on during Gloommass and the new year. Interesting that in rehearsals I was making the odd daft joke and I thought to myself if I get some material together maybe the occasional solo gig might be possible. I have done them before and they were far better received than they should have been frankly. That would be a tangible thing to aim for I think that might fill in the gaps. I can find my most played songs on the streaming services and transcribe those and that should give me a reasonable set list perhaps.

There is still a lot of bad news out there and right now I can’t deal with it.