Sunday 11 January 2009

One of the highlights of my cultural calendar is (if time allows) watching the BDO world darts championship on telly in the first week of January. I don't generally have any time for watching sport, but darts is much more interesting than most as it's not an athletic contest, and the audience look like they're having a great time.  The commentary is great too. Apparently Ted Hankey did so well this year because he only drank three pints rather than thirteen before playing. 

From Robert Fripp's diary the other day, referring to the Prog Britannia documentary:

It is not possible to record the history of the period without an account of its business practices; and therefore its business practitioners.

Well, Andrew and I convened over the budget for an upcoming project this week, and what had started as 'wow, we can afford to do this, this and this, and we'll all get paid properly' gradually became, 'oh, so we can't do that, and is that all we get paid?'  But most work of any kind suffers from this exact dilemma.  

If our concert diary here on the website looks a bit empty (ok, completely empty), it's not because we've retired: we're just waiting for various things to be officially announcable, or for that matter confirmed. And in the meantime I have some Debussy to practise ...