Saturday 3 January 2009

A good new year to everyone. I spent this afternoon rehearsing with the Orange Juice Dub Arkestra, largely as an excuse for me to play the stylophone, which I think sounded pretty good: we'll see if I get booed off on Burns Night. This is the view from behind my keyboard rig, which consists of glockenspiel, melodica, MIDI keyboard, stylophone (hidden) and laptop. Wielding a guitar on the left of picture is Raymond Macdonald, who's more usually seen and heard blowing into something sax-shaped.

When I got home there was a copy of Alasdair Roberts' new CD in its newly-mastered state waiting in the mail. That will have to wait until I can give it my full attention, which it deserves.

I took this picture looking out over the Forth on our new year's day walk. It was perfectly still, so I'm not sure what caused the ripples.