Some Darkness, Some Light

Had an office party last night at the Industry near Old Street. Mostly free drinks, plenty of dancing (including with an anglo-Italian girl with divine hair, who everyone seems to have a crush on) most of which involved a great deal of spinning around the room.

Great fun, but CHRIST!!!! Why did it have to be on the night before a working day? So, I'm feeling a bit fragile today and a little dark about things. More straightforward people would describe this simply as a hangover.

On the otherhand though, I am really in a great mindset at the moment. At the weekend I had a buddy come and stay. I supported his band Eight Miles High a couple of months back. Llee, is a really good, tight guitarist, who knows how to create that mid-60s guitar style and tone perfectly. We wrote and recorded a song together called "Rosie Lee" about the glamorous though sexually frustrated wife of a fat ugly man called Stavros, who - er, how can I put this - invites her cockney milkman in for a variety of teas and always gets an extra pint free.

Llee writes in a far more precise manner than I do. He can come up with a classic structure and chord sequence for a song very quickly (I tend to labor at this, and pay only a lazy attention for conventions when it comes to structure). It was interesting to see how he works.

I am fired up by the quality of what I've been writing recently, and itching to get on stage. I think that in early '06 I will playing quite a bit live. I really feel in my bones at the moment that this is the direction that I should be pressing for. I've got a good vibe about things, I can see what needs to be done and how to do it very very clearly.

Hope that the Christmas groove is a good one for you. Are we having fun yet?

Tom.