And with a whoosh and a bang I return to the world of my blog!
Ok so there wasn't really any noise and/or pyrotechnics involved in the discovery of ones seemingly long lost password. I know, I could have reset the damn thing but, I never really got round to it, time has a funny way passing before your very eyes without being detected! And what a time has passed, new decade, new season (finally green things are deciding to grow up here in Scotland), new lease of life as a sound engineer. Yes, back doing what I do best, making all manner of random nonsense louder.... I had quite forgotten just what it felt like to do four 18 hour days followed by 22hour corporate show.... it doesn't really hurt as such (that bit comes later), it's more the numb autonomy you experience by day three. Nothing tastes of anything, coffee stops being effective, and cigarettes stop making it feel any better! The numbness works its way into your head as well, conversations take a lot longer, basic channel lists and over plugging seem like quantum theory, people less numb than you become extremely irritating. It's all a bit shocking really, having spent two whole years working in the green and pleasant Scottish Highlands, to not see daylight for five days is odd, plain and simple odd.
By the way I am ranting about being busy with work you might think I didn't find any enjoyment in it at all, you would of course be wrong! I love it, and wouldn't have it any other way, I had simply forgotten (as the human brain is so good at) about the more difficult bits.
Anyway, I have to confess that was all a week ago, having had a lovely 3 days off I'm feeling rested and ready for the up and coming festival season, which, at the end of the month will thrust it's self upon us with little thought to mercy or sleep! This year I start with the Shetland Folk Festival, yup, Shetland.... Only one of the most important festivals in the folk/world music scene ("start as you mean to go on" and all that). You can check it out here www.shetlandfolkfestival.com
Pictures and comments will be posted if I manage to find some internet or as soon as I get home...
Before all that I have a gig in a local venue, an arts centre called Woodend Barn, it's a theatre effort so, long day and probably very boring, but hey ho, it's only down the road and it will pay a bill or two!!!
