The live shows that I condsider cutting down on last year are lining up.
It was to be my intention that I would obnly see local gigs as the travel is what I can no longer face (hence the Luminaire in part) but there are some things that I just can't miss.
Marc Almond has announced a whole series of dates this year , mostly one-offs around Europe, but most significantly five consecutive nights at Wiltons Music Hall in London.
Ridiculously priced at £32.50 each, but I have today booked two tickets for the Saturday (last show) which was irresistible as it is scheduled to feature a guest appearance from Baby Dee.
He's also recorded a new song with Antony Hegarty which I will be downloading from myspace tonight.
Lots of collaboration projects on the go - it seems his recovery is gathering momentum and he's back doing what he does best.
Last saw him live in 2001, so this will be quite an experience.

Before that, Tx and I are going to see Nouvelle Vague next Friday (a gig together which I am looking forward to immensely) and then in March, the Replicas' 08 tour arrives at the university. A strange and somewhat obscure venue but it wil be good to see another show there as its been several years since I last managed it. Apart from catching the back end of BoyKillBoy last summer.

I will have to see the F*xx show at Battersea of course, provided that goes ahead as planned, but the only other show I know anything about is maybe another performance of CO which DeSilva mentioned - obviously out of the question unless it happens to be over the road!

MidMushingGit Metamatics

Third consecutive wake up call at 5am from baggins - it's begining to really get on to me.
Staurday Tx got up with her, and yesterday I had a turn but of course we both realise this is doing things according to her plan, which we have never conceded to with any of her siblings.
So this morning we are battling it out in the bedroom - except that I have given up and got up.
Set breakfast, fed the cat and come online.
Emails and links flooding in to my latest review, which now appears at four websites. Very cool - Mk is so touched an dimpressed by it that he has committed to sending me copies of his first album too.
Great stuff - I really hope he gets a break soon.

The house is quiet now.
Half an hour before the children wake up.
Moods pass quickly - I'm looking forward to seeing them now.

Spoke to Kink yesterday, and experienced again the increasing frustration that she seems determined to bring to my head.
While I am pleased to see her working again, 12 hours a week in a shoe shop with two 17yr olds is really not great. She seems to be moving backwards, and has even talked of moving back home with her mum because she can no longer afford the rent on the flat. Next week she is moving into a girlfriend's place 'for a while' to get a break from the boyfriend with whom she seems to argue more often all the time.
His mother owns the flat they share, and he makes no contribution to the rent and no effort to even look for work. BUt seems to be putting more pressure on her not to see any friends etc or spend money on herself.
She's asked if she can come here for a weekend too, whch I'm looking forward to.
Seriously think that moving in with her girlfriend is what she needs to do.
We have met this girl - she studies her at the uni and I met her in town a couple of times.
And I know they have in the past had a relationship.
K definitely needs to go for it I think in terms of exploring her sexuality. She had two girlfriends before moving in with this bloke and has not really settled in with him. There is a sparkle in her voice when she talks of other girls she's met or knows and I think until she has the confidence to follow it through she will never settle.
She's drifting, and to drift back to her mum's would be a further step backwards and inhibit her personal development even more.

The difficulty for me is to express this honestly and I found myself struggling with that on the phone.
Putting a couple of my concerns down in an email has helped.

Scabbycat has arrived home...

No music this morning. Enjoying the blackbird song in the garden.