Luke's 3rd blog 15/08/06
Posted August 15, 2006
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Lukes 3rd blog. 11/08/06
My god. Its three weeks since my last! My homework is late!
Well you know weve been doing our usual thing; Pirating, robbing old people. And developing new methods of molecular engineering. But other than that, we have been killing shows around the country (as in gazumping the very centre of the gig and making it sing. Or tapping it on its head with a splitting wedge and the whole thing coming open to reveal its heart. Not negative murdering, killing!). Since we came back from our May break we seem to have gone from strength to strength. The good music flowing, going out on a limb, and giving audiences the best music we can.
As you know from Johns blog, Canada was a wonderful experience. It was great to get one week in which to really play to a nation. Live gigs, TV, Radio, MTV, Morning TV, Internet radio. It was wild. We made good amigos over there. Big thanks to AKA, Anastasia, EMI, and the fine people of Canada who made us so welcome. I got to sit down in my hotel room with my Bohdran and write some radical s$*t. Write lyric! Draw, say what you feel man. We need to rock.
We played Summer Breeze in Farnham. And some connection, some magic moment of letting go, or giving or a realization that music is beyond us, is coming from somewhere else Some wonderful thing made it one of my Favourite gigs ever. We played so well. We sung our hearts out. And Jp played Enter Sandman better than ever.
I had my birthday weekend off at the Big Chill after our kicking gig. And me and my Beloved Kate set up our transit van Hercules as a lovely gypsy caravan and attempted to chill amidst the large amounts of very loud trance music. We had an ace one and saw Chris Wood. A great Guitarist, singer songwriter, legend from Kent. He was wicked and suggests to guitarists to learn the melody of the song. And then let the chordal work serve, and dance with that melody.
We just played the Edinburgh Fringe at the weekend. Damn thats a great thing. Edinburgh is my Favourite city I think. It just seems to buzz with the life of a diverse populace who get truck loads of culture coming through their town every year. Being next to sea, mountains, Good people, Whiskey, Folk music and culture, make my heart glad. The Scots all so seem to have a lot of radicalism and nature spirituality going on. Way cool. The gig was great. It rocked. We improvised, stayed grounded; both had a laugh together, and gave a lot. It was what were about. We were relaxed and a great team. Its all about relationship yo!
Many thanks to Arthur and Asha for putting Kate and me up. And for the hospitality and incredible whiskey festival. To Nicole Et Martin (www.nicole-et-martin.ch the circus Kate produces) They are so damn talented, have such integrity, and what they do is so magical. Dylan Moran was there and said it was one of the best shows he has ever seen. To Jonnie for the great play and afternoon (Check out Baggage at the Pleasance (Below) old town. at 2.05pm for the rest of the fringe.) And To Adam. A wonderful man who took us to his tree house and showed us the beauty of the kingdom of Fife. And showed us the meaning of hospitality. Hes a legend. Check out his Beautiful hand made fair trade jewellery at www.adammcintosh.com He travels the world making relationships with Native folk and paying them double the going rate to set stones he has mined himself on earlier journeys. Recommended. See ya dudes. Luke x
