Tuesday 23 July 2002

There was a nice plug for next Friday's concert in yesterday's Herald, calling us a 'vibrant little band' led by 'the dynamic McG, who plays classical keyboards as though he's playing stride piano, and who believes that all music is rock 'n' roll (he actually puts it more earthily than that, but this is a family newspaper)'.  All completely made up of course, but welcome nonetheless.

I made a couple of chance radio contacts in the last couple of days.  While I was gazing hopelessly at the variety of plastic bread on offer in the supermarket at the bottom of our road, a Radio 3 producer said hi and mentioned that he and Fiona Talkington (one of the presenters of cult show Late Junction) were just about to have dinner in the restaurant next door.  Fiona shares my boundless enthusiasm for Finnish music, but we've never actually met before, so I joined them for a drink and we ended up drinking Bushmills and listening to JPP into the night. It's at least a year since I last sat around listening to music with friends ...

And then today another producer sidled up to me and asked me if I'd go on Jamie's Radio Scotland show Grace Notes to plug our gig next week.  I'd deliberately not approached them as he's going to be singing in the concert, and it might be a bit weird: 'So David, tell me what I'm doing on Friday'.