Friday 12 June 2009

Somehow I've got myself into the position where I'm putting together eight separate concert programmes (ten really, but three of them are much the same), besides dealing with admin and lesser matters for three others. And I've got some practising to do as well. Alison came round this morning and by lunchtime we had a pretty good version of one programme for November, which at breakfast had been a blank page. Add to this my email inbox filling up every time I turn my back, and I've become rather busy. My other concern is that I've got just too much music to hold in my head at one time: if I listen to anything new, something vital will fall out the other end of my brain. Which isn't good news for my new-found Spotify habit. I listened to some Janis Joplin on my iPod this afternoon when I was out, to get my subconscious preparing for a gig with Lisa in a couple of weeks, and I completely forgot to pick up the shopping I'd gone out for. I couldn't go and hear Iva Bittová playing in London on Wednesday night, but fortunately Clare could, and she sent me this 5 word review: "wonderful, quirky, moving, beautiful, bonkers", which explains perfectly why I would have liked to have been there.Random miscellanea: CBC are going to record two of the three concerts I'm playing in Canada in August (I think I get recorded more often there than here these days), and our car battery died yesterday so the nice people at the Honda garage put a new one in for me first thing this morning.