2010

I have to come clean: I haven't even been on this site for at least a month. To be honest I was kind of scared; my last post was staring me in the face, because I looked at it and knew nothing had changed since then. The release date, for one reason or another, of my first single (finally, I know) has been pushed back to Feb. I'm taking the opportunity to redo the artwork for it. In January the band and I are knuckling down and revamping the live set. We'll be gigging again in Feb.

In the absence of a publishing deal I have a job; and that's kept me far too busy to energetically do more music for the last month or two. A recent flurry of live gig attendances has re-fired my resolve to write again, and my great new manager has been pushing me on. Leaving my old one and going with her has turned out to be a sound move.

So yeah, new year etc. I sense the same things I told myself this time last year coming back. Will this finally be the year all this work reaches fruition? 2011? Yikes. I've been doing music for most of my life and have almost nothing tangible to show for it. That's not despair on my part; but simply that in the digital age you can work for years and have nothing to hold in your hands.



I started another blog with my friend Simon. It's mostly about comics but it'll inevitably include other things. We've recorded a few podcasts but frankly don't feel confident enough to put all of them out. I've also been making comics, lots of them. At the moment I'm filling up three of four pages a day with comics and illustrations. I need to scan them in and clean them up but even the Christmas holiday hasn't given me time to breath and get some of my own work done.

My job, by the way, entails animating a pilot for a new TV show for Channel 4. You'll have to wait until September I expect, but when it comes out the phrase 'FISH FINGER FOR LATER' will make a whole lot more sense.