And now the end has come
And my work here is done
Though for every warm breath of kindness
I'm still the blindest man here
Gene - "I Can't Help Myself" (1994)
No don't worry, I'm not doing the off again (I've been in an uncharacteristically good mood lately for a change), more the end of an era.
Basically, today has seen the curtain come down on my music career. I've left my band and this time I'm not intending to join another one.
However, it's all been very amicable. Basically, over the last couple of weeks my booking agency, Primitive Promotions, has taken off quite surprisingly. From being pretty much dead in the water a month ago we've suddenly got gigs flooding in (currently four and counting over the next two months) and it's dawned to me recently that cramming both the agency and the band into my spare time is gonna be extremely difficult. Thus, reluctantly, I've decided to go with the agency. Not reluctantly because I don't enjoy it (the last few weeks have seen it suddenly become a really enjoyable and exciting place to be again and I'm currently loving every minute of seeing it finally start to take off) but because it feels as if my time to fulfil all those rock star dreams I've had since I was 12 or 13 has finally passed.
But what the hell, I've had ten great years of being in bands in various guises or other and I've got enough tales that my grandchildren (in the event that I ever have any of the little sods
) are almost certainly never going to want for exciting bedtime stories - being chased out of a Bolton venue by the local lynch mob, sleeping in a Transit van in a retail park on the edge of Mansfield because we were all too pissed to drive back to Stoke, breaking the "lowest attendance" record at a venue in Wigan, playing the launch night of a new "indie night" in Newcastle-under-Lyme and getting all of five people through the doors...it's all been fun.
And as one door closes, another opens. From now on, I'm gonna be throwing myself full-tilt into getting this agency running smoothly. Watch out rock 'n' roll, we're coming to rearrange yer face a bit.
Keep rocking in the free world folks and speak to youse all later.
Yorkie
PS If anyone's interested though, I will be doing an acoustic gig as my "unplugged punk poet" alter ego Billy Two Rivers at the Fenton in Leeds on May 24th. Anyone who wants to come along and say hi, feel free.
And my work here is done
Though for every warm breath of kindness
I'm still the blindest man here
Gene - "I Can't Help Myself" (1994)
No don't worry, I'm not doing the off again (I've been in an uncharacteristically good mood lately for a change), more the end of an era.
Basically, today has seen the curtain come down on my music career. I've left my band and this time I'm not intending to join another one.
However, it's all been very amicable. Basically, over the last couple of weeks my booking agency, Primitive Promotions, has taken off quite surprisingly. From being pretty much dead in the water a month ago we've suddenly got gigs flooding in (currently four and counting over the next two months) and it's dawned to me recently that cramming both the agency and the band into my spare time is gonna be extremely difficult. Thus, reluctantly, I've decided to go with the agency. Not reluctantly because I don't enjoy it (the last few weeks have seen it suddenly become a really enjoyable and exciting place to be again and I'm currently loving every minute of seeing it finally start to take off) but because it feels as if my time to fulfil all those rock star dreams I've had since I was 12 or 13 has finally passed.
But what the hell, I've had ten great years of being in bands in various guises or other and I've got enough tales that my grandchildren (in the event that I ever have any of the little sods
) are almost certainly never going to want for exciting bedtime stories - being chased out of a Bolton venue by the local lynch mob, sleeping in a Transit van in a retail park on the edge of Mansfield because we were all too pissed to drive back to Stoke, breaking the "lowest attendance" record at a venue in Wigan, playing the launch night of a new "indie night" in Newcastle-under-Lyme and getting all of five people through the doors...it's all been fun.
And as one door closes, another opens. From now on, I'm gonna be throwing myself full-tilt into getting this agency running smoothly. Watch out rock 'n' roll, we're coming to rearrange yer face a bit.
Keep rocking in the free world folks and speak to youse all later.
Yorkie
PS If anyone's interested though, I will be doing an acoustic gig as my "unplugged punk poet" alter ego Billy Two Rivers at the Fenton in Leeds on May 24th. Anyone who wants to come along and say hi, feel free.
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Would be cool to see them working in TK Maxx. Rather than just shopping there ZING!
Um, yeah, anyway, glad you're doing ok dude