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Homegame 2009
I need to write this quickly as I’m in the middle of watching an episode of ‘Deadwood’ and I’m finally managing to get the hang of it. Paul has also gone to make some toast so I really need to be quick here as he’ll be back in a minute…
Homegame was magic. It’s the first time I’ve taken the whole family up and we’ve spent the weekend there. I played a rather compromised set on the Friday night as the sound guy (sorry, you mean there was one?) managed to fuck the sound up so much that Paul had to take over from halfway through the first song.
I was oblivious to all of this of course and was busy concentrating on trying to get to the end of the five new songs that I played as part of the set. For two of them, ‘The Night Is Heavy’ and ‘Chemistry Will Find Me’ I had Adem join me on stage as he’s recorded vocals with me for both songs on the new album and they sound fantastic.
Right after the solo set, I had to run over to another hall to play The Burns Unit set, which was a whirlwind affair and over before we knew it. Our usual bass player Sushil Dade was unable to play with us on Friday as he was ill so we drafted in Dave McGowan (Teenage Fanclub, Isobel Campbell) to fill in at the last minute. I really do mean the last minute – he was sent the songs the night before at 5pm and managed to play them faultlessly just over 24 hrs later.
And I was standing on stage with my lyrics still in front of me.