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I should follow my own advice sometimes. Breathe it in, breathe it out, loosen up.
I’ve been running around like a blue-faced arsebottle, an arse-faced bluebottle for the last too long, worrying about the album, worrying about the tour, fidgeting next to Laura in bed for hours after she’s sunk to sleep. Well, now I think I can breathe.
The album’s out, and you lovely people have been flooding the feedback in in great warm waves. It seems that Folk-Hop floats. I haven’t sold 8 million copies in the first week, but I have had a respectable flow of requests come in, and I’m pleased. To those that don’t know- if you order the album now, you receive a download code by email, which enables you to own it all straight away, and also you’ll get a CD in the post, which I’ll send to you as soon as I’ve got them back from the factory at the end of the month.
The Bomb Tesco video’s out too, circulating around YouTube at its own good pace, and spreading chuckles, I think, wherever it goes. It still makes I laugh every time I see it. If you haven’t looked yet, take the time to.
And finally, the Small Gods band is well underway, and preparing for the tour: we’ve had two rehearsals now, and it’s starting to sound proper lush. Viola, accordion, double bass, harmony singing, cuts and nodyerhead hiphop beats, anyone? I think we’re in for something special. The first gig is next frigging week, which I can’t believe, but I can still breathe, and perhaps even sleep a full night...
I feel so much calmer that I’m even taking the time to add a new page to the website: I’m calling it Inspiration, but it’ll be a broad umbrella: there’ll be links to good causes there, people who are struggling for justice or intelligence; there’ll be links to artists who’re inspiring me at the moment, and who I want to share with everyone else; there might even be pictures. Let’s see.
I hope to see a lot of you peoples somewhere along the tour road, anyway, and keep the feedback coming- it’s nutritious.
Peace
Dizraeli