Wednesday 2 December 2009

Still largely desk-bound here, grappling with a large research proposal for 2011, and various projects for 2010 to be tweaked, moved on, or turned down. I had a call from a public funding body on Monday about one of these potential projects, pointing out that in the budget I'd submitted, I hadn't made the recording session fees quite high enough to meet the BPI/MU rate. Whoops, soon corrected that, how embarrassing. Then the following day I was contacted by one of the country's national companies and offered eight days of recording sessions at less than two-thirds of that same rate. Uh?  That'll be a no then.

Last week's soundcheck photos from Claus Buehler ...

our side of the stage

Tomas takes a break from his 'God is gonna get ya' Elvis impression

Matt is effortlessly cool as ever

proof that I played the guitar

Oh, and my mum gets a credit on Hue and Cry's new album. Work that one out.