Thursday 21 June 2001

Today I've been putting together the last pieces in the jigsaw for the new CD.  All that's left to go is the cover image - a quick brainstorming lunchtime phone call with Philip Hobbs at Linn left us with the idea of a West Highland Terrier with a Gillray-type speech bubble saying 'Ciao bella!' or some such short Italian chat-up line.  I must phone Joe Davie later today and see what he thinks.  The original idea that I had while wandering around Rome in March also involved a Vespa scooter, but Philip thought it was a mite incomprehensible - 'what's that got to do with Geminiani?'

Anyway, the nice publicity and airplay that the second McFalls album has been getting (www.mcfalls.co.uk to buy yours) has reminded me that I ought to put similar effort into promoting my own record, so I'm going to give some thought to press releases and their most likely recipients.  I'm always better at talking up other people's work than my own.

ConCal board meeting and AGM was yesterday - conducted swiftly and efficiently to great relief all round.  Now that we finally have an approved set of accounts for the year to August 2000, we're in a position to apply for funding for future projects.  This has been a major sticking point in our future planning for some months now, so as Oliver Hardy once said, 'let's put our brains together and forge a head'.

Meanwhile, casting continues: every now and again an actor appears on the doorstep to sing to me, which is a pleasant way of breaking up an afternoon's work.