Back to Bizzness.

I am sitting in the TV room in Seattle contemplating a whiskey and root-beer. Johnny is laying down the trumpet track for Brown Trout Blues and Joe is playing an old recording of Jimmy Rogers on his computer. Work is well out here and the album taking shape. Its a tight schedule for the next couple of weeks because we've got a lot of overdubs to do and not a whole lot of time to do them, but I think we'll get it done in time. Vertigo will sack us if we don't so that's a pretty good incentive....

The talk in the studio today, amongst other things, has focused on what our policy should be regarding corporate gigs. We turned one down recently because of the associations and practices of the companies involved. Its not a matter of being holier than thou, it just strikes us that if we do have a choice in how our music is used then we would all prefer not to support unethical business and industry.

We also collectively realised that when you score a goal in football its basically a licence to do anything in the ensuing ten seconds, as long as people think it a legitimate celebration of your efforts. You can even do stuff that the state frowns upon as long as you don't go into the crowd. I reckon you could even black-up, as unpalatable as that is, without raising too many eyebrows. Perhaps I should email Michael Moor about this and he can make a hard hitting but popular film about it.

Oh and I've invented a new version of chess.... More on that later.