Wednesday 8 August 2001

The good news is that the technical fault on the CD has been located and dealt with. The bad news is that this has put the release date back - I still don't know exactly when it'll hit the shops, but Linn promise us we'll have some copies by the gigs on the 26th. This always happens - when we launched the Clerk CD, the shipment got stuck in a Securicor warehouse and the McAllister Matheson crew, who'd come to the concert specifically to sell CDs, had to give out bits of paper like IOUs instead.  Colin's Kisses arrived from the factory on the day of its launch. I'd hoped that this time the thing would actually be in the shops by the time we promoted it, but instead we'll be doing bits of it live on the radio and talking it up before it physically exists.  Also, I just like the security of having the end product in my hand, but even then it always has a strange sense of anti-climax because CDs are such tiny little things. 

There was a piece in Monday's Scotsman about my trip to LA, filled with made-up quotes that made me sound like a complete tosser. I wouldn't have minded, but they printed my photo as well. Win some, lose some I suppose.