We have just done 5 gigs in a row and this is my first lazy morning in what feels like an age, so I thought I’d say hello. I’d like to tell you about my crazy life but it’s all completely unbloggable so you’ll have to make do with the heavily censored version until my auto-biography is published in twenty years or so. Don’t get all excited now, it’s not been one blazing orgy after the other, it’s far stranger and complex than that.

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Ok so I know I should be doing this far more regularly, because if I don’t you all think that I’m sat on my little bottom doing nothing, but nothing could be further from the truth. In these exciting DIY times everything is wonderful because you can have full creative control but it’s amazing how many pies there are to keep one’s fingers in.

There’s apple pie, this is the gig pie, which involves, finding cool venues, finding the lovely peeps who book the bands there, bombarding them with pleading phone calls, offering sexual favours (this usually works) and then once the gig is in the bag, organising my band, rehearsing them, dressing them, feeding them etc, promoting the gig, this means following the same pattern as for getting the gig only applying it to mags, fanzines, online gig pages etc oh and remembering to put it on here, the website and the fifty odd other rdinghood profiles out there, once at the gig there’s the sound check, getting myself ready, singing and performing a blinder, collecting email addresses, selling CDs and merchandise, going home (trying not to crash on the M4 late at night), inputting all the lovely fan’s details and contacting them…..and that’s just apple pie!

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