Thursday, 21 May 2009

Well it's about two week since the last date (at least I think so) and the final specks of dust are just a bout settled.  I always forget how long it takes me to get back to normality (whatever that is) after playing every night for a while.  I really don't know how the bigger bands do it; going on tour for a year or more at a time?  I suppose needs must eh, if you gotta do it you'll find a way.  As for me, I go in the road for three weeks and come back utterly disoriented and emotionally spent.  However, no better way to spend it.  I had a great tour, really enjoyed myself.  Not least of all hanging out with Iain Archer for days on end.  He couldn't do the Irish dates with me and within one day I started to really miss him!

I wanted to say a huge thanks to everyone for showing up and spreading the word.  Being that I've been working under cover for that last while in the studio doing this that and the other, I really didn't expect the gigs to be so well attended, but they were and it's surely thanks to you all doing what I hope you would when I first set about setting up a record label called 'Wurdamouth'... it was precisely word of mouth that made the gigs so special. Every time I looked at all the dates that were sold out I felt very proud to have folks like your good selves out there spreading the gospel according to Foy (disclaimer, there is no gospel according to Foy, and if I ever write one for goodness sake don't read it!).  I know your supposed to be cool about sold out shows, ya' know, like not mention it on your website ;)... and nonchalantly pass of anyone's reference to it, but I don't give a shit about that, it made me proud that it happened via wurdamouth, no poster campaigns or slots on TV shows, just you and your enthusiasm.  I'm beginning to sound like a gushing Daddy...maybe the dust hasn't quite settled yet...?

Anyway...I have a gig this Saturday in Liverpool (details will be up shortly) and then a gig in NYC on June 2nd (as it stands) which I'll update you on when I know for sure what's happening.

In the meantime, I've got another short film to finish off and a couple of holidays to go on... life's tough eh!  Feel like I've been on a bit of a holiday since I got back.  Every time the suns out before I know it I'm in the garden with a G&T or Corono or some other summery drink... like CIDER... NYUM!

A friend of mine from Memphis, called Charlie Wood, is in London this week and gigging in Oliver's bar in Greenwich on Friday night.  He's sort of a blues/jazz musician... but the key to Charlie in my opinion is his unbelievable voice!  I don't even know who to compare it to.  When people say 'he's got an unbelievable voice', it makes me wary because you often find that it means they can do lots of things with their voice, like fancy Mariah Carey licks, and I must admit, I sort of find it all very meaningless...BUT, Charlie! He's got all that but doesn't use it until precisely the right moment.  He does a cover of American tune by Paul Simon and there's a line he sings in there that every time I hear it I piss myself laughing because I just don't know what else to do with myself?

Point is, he's great, it's a fiver in, it starts around 8ish...I highly recommend you head down, I know I will. Aside from that, Oliver's bar is run by Olivier the mad French man who alone, is worth the journey to Greenwich!  In winter, you'll be walking down the stairs to the venue and be overcome with a wondrous smell, only to find he's cooking pheasant over the log fire and giving it out to the customers... "no reeely, you zimply mus try ziss, c'est tres bon"

Here's the on thing I need to tell you...  I'm really sorry to those of you in Belfast that didn't get a copy of the new EPS when they ran out on the second night, and also for those of you elsewhere in the world that weren't able to get along to any of the gigs (understandably so).  I, in my siv headedness, left a box of the CDs at my Brighton gig, so there are some left... not many but some, around a couple of hundred of each or something.  So I'll be putting them up on the shop over the next week or so.  I first need to check the amounts and make sure we don't sell what we haven't got, if you know what I mean...

So, enough rambling for now...speak more later...f