Friday, 14 November 2008

I played a gig in Wye sometime earlier in the year when I met Luke and John (nothing to do with Matthew and Mark) from Nizlopi as they were on the same stage... we instantly hit it off, as is often the case with people in the brotherhood of music. I remember Johnny Cash talking of this brotherhood in his autobiography; how artist and/or musicians can become like brothers in no time at all...there's an unsaid understanding.  Anyway, I felt like I'd always know the guys when I first met them.  Almost a year later (if not more than that) they asked me to come and play a gig with them at ULU in London, of course I said yes.  When I get there I find out that it's there last gig for at least 12 months, possibly ever - a lot can happen in 12 months right...  I must say, I felt truly honored that they would ask me along for such an occasion.  It was a great night and the guys gave out just as much love, positivity and 'make it Happen-ness' as they always do... I left feeling restored, replanted, like a cat by a fire, at peace, a squirrel in a tree house... they can't say squirrel in Japan you know; they don't have diphthongs....

So here's what's happened... between that last sentence and this one... I have had a conversation lasting 1 hour, 34 minutes and 18 secs with my eldest brother, Easton... I only called him to say/ask " right, how do you spell diphthong?"  ... next thing I know, we're talking life for over an hour and a half.... no better man to talk life with though... Easton's a writer, and a bloody good one... trouble is, he's been playing his cards close to his chest, much like me I guess... maybe it's hereditary... we both wanna hold on to it until we're 100% sure it's right?  who knows?


Anyway... I'm sure I've mentioned that I'm working on a feature film at the minute (?) ... well, I'm now working on a couple of shorts too... one of them is called 'A Little Faith', essentially about deceit, truth, pornography and reality... I think?...at least that's what it seemed like to me.  So, I'm writing songs in the vein of the Isley Brothers and Marvin Gaye.... no pressure then eh... I've been working at it solid and it still sounds like a chav trying to write a concerto ... hoping that I'll get somewhere soon...

right...it's 00:21 and I've got a phone interview with Citybeat tomorrow morning at 08:30...so enough of this blibber blabber... speak soon... hopefully more coherently than I have been in this post (I've had three big G&T's during this post.......oops) ...

the Nizlopi boys on their last night...