Schrodinger's Cat

northeast, west, south

I've been thinking up some ideas for the next year or so - once again, now that the two new albums are finished they're behind me and so no longer of interest... except that I've still got the hard part of the job to go, namely selling them. What a luxury it must be for artists who have a record label to do the selling for them (and a manager to book gigs...)! Thanks very much to Jen and Mike for putting in orders, you have no idea how much that cheers me up - every little helps.

Once again, After Maths & Sciences (Australian soundscapes) and Gleefully Unknown: 1997-2005 (best-of compilation) are available for $15 each. Drop me a line (fiffdimensionATgmailDOTcom)...

Anyway, I'm more interested now in what's next. The music course has the same breaks as school terms. So the ideas for the breaks are:

April, go up north, play gig in Wellington, visit Cynthia's friends in Whakatane and see East Cape (the main part of the country I haven't yet been to);

July, go over to Brisbane (next logical Aussie destination after seeing Melbourne, Sydney, and briefly Perth and Adelaide), play at Liquid Architecture festival, make documentary about cane toads;

October, do a show for Dunedin Fringe Festival.

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Lots of planning/organising to do. And then there's the really big task - Europe, 2007. I'd love to do it with Ascension Band, but so far they're all notably slack on replying to my emails. So I get angsty about whether I'm an outcast because of the stupid incident last year where I gave someone a hug which was taken the wrong way and then my apology not accepted - 2005 had to have one blot on an otherwise great year. It's a bit awkward being isolated away from Wellington, but on the other hand after six years in Wellington I ultimately got tired of the place, and life's good in Nelson.

There's a deadline - the band Sabot are a major contact, based in Prague. They're playing in Wellington (at Happy, Saturday 11th March - worth seeing) and Nelson in a couple of weeks. They gave me a list of booking contacts in Europe - but I need to know what I'm booking. Are the guys in or should I just try and go solo? It'll look really lame if I haven't made any progress.

Other jobs include - big pile of CDs to review for online magazine Foxy Digitalis (based in Oklahoma - amusingly, one of the discs they sent me was from Wellington band mr sterile); getting APRA details updated and trying to get the new albums some radio airplay; coming up with and organising a solo show for Brisbane and Dunedin; and coursework. Luckily it's not as full-on as the journalism course, but I do have to practice my scales etc, work on those blues leads - and I'm very gradually starting to read sheet music...

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