glittertigger

Thanks to everyone for your comments on my last entry - will update you soon on that front. As work is less hectic now, I've been waking up the creative part of my brain in the evenings. I was at a craft evening on Wednesday (mending things rather than making them on my part so far, but the ideas are flowing), at a great gig on Thursday (more on this below) and I went to see the Caption comics exhibition last night. bluedevi and cleanskies have both done some great work, as have the rest of the collective. Hopefully I'll start making things properly myself soon - the current plan is to teach myself dressmaking over the next few months.

The gig on Thursday was opened by last minute stand-ins Cat Matador, who seemed a little scrappy and nervous. The drummer is talented and enthusiastic but really belongs in a heavy rock band. The ethereal fiddler is also not bad and the guitars and vocals were adequate. It just doesn't gel as an overall sound though and the songs are rather too similar to one another. Family Machine were next and opened very strongly - I loved the first couple of songs - then rather disappointingly seemed to run out of good material. Little Fish were headlining and were once again awesome. Juju has huge amounts of energy and charisma, a great voice and solid guitar technique (she also has gorgeous guitars - I covet her Fendor Baritone). She's eliminated the irritating shrieking she used to do occasionally and now it's all about the music. The drummer provides a varied and spot-on backing. They absolutely deserve their recent record deal - keep an eye out for these two.

I'm off work for the next ten days and very excited about heading off to New York to see some of my favourite people and explore the city, which zandev hasn't seen before. Will tell you all about it when I get back.