Despite paying my phone bill and extortionate broadband prices at home, I find myself using my laptop and my mobile broadband more and more. Emails and websites are less of a grind when the scenery around you is changing and you can watch the world go by. The view from my office window is into my neighbours garden. I am not even sure that these people exist as I have never seen them in their little patch of suburbian paradise (or grass as it's also known). Right now, I am in my home town using the public library as it's warm, quiet and for some unknown reason the coffee shop a few doors down from here doesn't get any reception...life's a bitch sometimes right?

This is the view in front of me right now:


The guy in the beautifully crafted stained-glass window is Francis Bacon and the thought has hit me that if the people at 3 mobile were as meticulous as him in their pursuit of scientific breakthrough, I would probably be in the coffee shop with a vanilla iced latte and great reception right now rather than here. I don't know if that's irony or just my mind lumbering after a long week...whatever.

So we've played three shows this week with one more to go, a couple of days off and then three shows next week. All the shows have been cool this week, a couple of highs and lows I guess...I made a lot of mistakes on Monday but I don't think too many people noticed or cared, they were all jumping around too much :o)

I have loved being back playing shows again - it's kinda lifted me out of the funk I was in, although being home kinda kits a little hard sometimes. I would gladly be gone for longer - life away is just finding enough plug sockets to keep our equipment running and chatting about bands. Life at home is real and bad things can happen which have to be thought about, dealt with and then thought about some more.

One of these real life problems saw my mum and dad get on a flight to the other side of the world this morning. You know a crisis has arisen when it involves travelling to another continent. I don't want to go into it on here, because it's not me that's directly affected right now, but it's still on my mind.

So we made it through to the final of that Battle Of The Bands. The final is tomorrow night (Sunday 10th Feb) but I hold no hope of winning and that doesn't bother me in the slightest. If you want to come, details of the show are up on our tour page.

Ok, back to work I guess. I'll try and find somewhere even more picturesque to write from next time...but don't hold your breath.

Max x