a small flood of new songs, some completely fresh some old works in progress which have merely had the finishing touches added, are finding themselves added haphazard-like to shows of  late.  this is good ja?! good… hopefully this weekend will see the song “we might all get hit by a rather large bus” join the ranks. it’s a song about the cut-throat world of life as a mannequin.

 also we have ‘there but for the grace of god go i” which is a kind’v self explanatory title which should therefore not need explaining. “Tides” an 18 month old song about the shape of the planet, figuratively speaking, reworked slighty to imbue? the vibe of the Hokianga and also

‘walk to a pier” written in connemrra in 2006 about walking to a pier… a song of irony i guess… 

and various others mayhaps…  aaaah this i like!

twenty ten meanders slow-like now after three months of  varyayshuns… bernie griffin band and broadsides at kings arms last night was pretty darned cool. prior to that a trip manning the sound desk for ‘the curls’ taking in womad along the way. the jaunt from Karamea to Wanaka, sublime… winter draweth nigh and i imagine a cosy studio, another recording project? looking forward to getting my maton back from Dr. Phil (the Luthier that is) where some overdue TLC has been lavished apon her… a couple shows comin up, that’s gotta be a good thing… indeed indeed

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