Egham blues

The past few days have left me with a pretty odd feeling. The four day weekend that is the Easter holidays has now ended and looking back on it I realise that I did pretty much nothing. Having said that, the time seemed to fly by as quickly as the snow that has been falling outside my window today.

Since my last update:

1) Following my visit to the local university's acoustic night, I made a new band mate and we practiced hard in order to take part in the next opportunity to perform. However, the acoustic night we were going to make our official "debut" at got postponed until April and then we recently found out that the April gig may be totally cancelled all together until the beginning of the new university year ie. October. I'm gutted because I have been really wanting to make a new band since coming back to Japan and never got around to it. Now I had the opportunity but it's passed and my motivation went up and back down again. Fingers crossed that the April one does not get postponed. In any case, I have written a few more song pieces and I get closer to finishing them. I also completed a new song last month called "Burning all your bridges".

2) Back in February I bought myself a new iPod Touch. This thing is wicked - not only because it is so technically cool, but it allows me to download Japanese language podcasts for free. It has definitely helped improve my j-skills.

3) I went with my bandmate to the NME Big Gig at the O2 stadium in London a few weeks back. I got to see Manic Street Preachers, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party and Klaxons. Not bad but our seats could not have been further from the stage and the sounds was a bit off. But it was still decent enough.

4) I travelled down to Brighton a couple of weekends ago to look at new guitar amps and settled on an Orange amp. It definitely sounds superior to the one I had before (and it really should do considering how much I paid for it).

5) My wrist, which has been hurting ever since I got back from Japan, is still causing me pain. I went to the doctors last week and got some antibiotics to help it. So far no real progress.

6) I am going to a friend's wedding today.

Jody