It's the start of another new year. They seem to be coming around a bit too quickly these days, but they are good for setting goals and all that management-speak stuff, and it's as good a time as any to start writing things here. I'm sort of intending to record how gigs go when I get back from them, so that I remember when I have a nice time, but I bet I don't keep it up.
2005 was ok. I played a few good gigs (the Portland Arms, the Betsey Trotwood, CB2, The Windmill with The Morning People), a few disappointing ones (The Spitz, that place that used to be The Kashmir Klub), saw quite a few really good gigs (The Frames, Bright Eyes, Mark Kozelek, The Proclaimers), and quite a few less good ones (Martha Wainwright, Tom Vek, Bob Dylan, but you have to see him don't you) bought a couple of great albums (anything involving Steve Adams from The Broken Family Band, Rilo Kiley, Bright Eyes), and a large amount of so-so ones (damn you Fopp and your tempting cheapness), made a little CD and proceeded to do nothing much with it (if anyone wants one, they're pretty cheap off my website). I also inched closer to 30, watched Cambridge United get relegated from the Football League and got a bit depressed about the way Cambridge has gone since the Boat Race shut.
So, my resolutions for this year are:
I give them a week.