Edinburgh, still busy

I'm back home now but my friend Scott's staying for a couple of weeks so I won't be around that much/playing much. I had a good time up in Edinburgh with Barry/Bazclef and Chris/Pureklas. It's just before the festival starts up there and we caught three Australian comedians on the Sunday night. They were really good and it was great to go and see some live comedy as I haven't done that for a long, long time. On the Monday Barry took us to a gay cafe (apparently one of his favourite haunts, and they all seemed very pleased to see him (not actually true)), and we watched The Hangover too. Then I travelled down to Hartlepool to Scott's to hang out for a day and then bring him back down here.

Last night I went to watch a friend's band at The Vic in Derby. I haven't been to watch a band for about two years, and considering I used to play a gig probably once a month that's a really long time for me. It felt great to be watching live music again and I'm going to force myself to get out there and watch more from now on. They're called Dead In The Queue and are on myspace if anyone wants to check them out. They also played with this crazy guy called Squatters from a band called Dead Factories. He was pretty insane and crazily raw, but I loved him. And there was some guy called Daniel Angelus who did some weird keyboard/synth music that I'd never seen live before. It was pretty ballsy to do that in a place like The Vic I thought (which is mainly a rock club), and I actually quite liked him. He was a bit like a band called She Wants Revenge who I quite like.

Over the next few days I'll be taking Scott to catch up with mates that he hasn't seen for while. So on Friday and Saturday night we'll be in Notts meeting with different friends each night. And on Sunday it's a friend's birthday down here so we're going to the Keys (Brian's favourite place!).

To all of you who I normally talk to a lot and haven't been around to talk to - sorry that I'm not around much right now but I'll be on sporadically and then in a couple of weeks I'll be back to usual.

To all of you who don't talk to me much - your loss!