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news.
The 'just like honey festival' went well for me, and I think for Iva and Milos too. Jirka Geisel did a great job in organizing such a fezzie with bands like 'Bee and Flower' - not sure it was appreciated quite as much as it could have been though. My night was quite quiet but let's say select. Chester turned out to be a very nice guy whose car had broken down and so stayed with us for a few days with his partner, Amity. Eoghan O'Reilly gave me a little write up on his blog, here, which was nice of him. There should be some pictures knocking about somewhere - I'll post them if anyone sends me a link. So what's coming up - recording but this time with the Meclopin boys in Rymarov. It seems they have sorted themselves out a studio and they've invited me over to play on their cd. Should be fun. I'm still working on the mixes for our stuff at the moment - wage work really does get in the way sometimes!  Concert on May 10th, 2012. I'm supporting a travelling, English singer-songwriter named Chester. Looking forward to meeting him and having a play. I'm not sure if I'm just going to play solo or ask Iva and Milos to come along. We'll see......hmmmmm....
Well, it's
nearly warm enough to start working upstairs again. I've started to
rearrange the studio and put the mixing desk in for a service. I've
also got hold of a nice old tesla extension speaker to use as a mono
monitor a la 'Auratone 5C'. I'm excited. Spring cleaning the hard
drive, I came across some older stuff that I haven't looked at for a
while and one song from a winter improv upstairs. Here it is:
 Well,
it's been quite a quiet few months and with temperatures often below
-25c. I played a solo gig in Olomouc in January at a nice little place
called, 'Hoblina'. One of the sweetest gigs
I've ever played. Big thanks to Jiri.Apart from that, I've been working on our recordings but with the studio/loft being so cold, progress is slow. Out of frustration, I recorded a few solo songs onto a polish reel to reel, Unitra ZK 246 in the picture, and TDK Adua tape as a practise. Buggered up the levels big time! Still, it's activity :)
 Not
directly related to music but anyway - the Czech
documentary
photographer, Jindřich
Štreit, came to our house and photographed us as
part of a project documenting the lives of foreigners living in the
Czech Republic. Not sure what I think about the shot that was chosen (I
definitely don't smoke when the kids are around normally) but you
know how it is; I should respect artistic license and all. The
exhibition is
to take place on November
the 15th at divadlo Archa in Prague.
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