It's been like ages man

I've been doing a lot of recording this past couple of weeks. I got a new recording microphone and I'm spending hours on end trying to get songs that I like recorded. Things don't always work out the way I want but that's okay because every time I make a mistake I learn from it and hopefully do it better next time around.

The main reason for spending my days with my guitar, laptop and microphone is just to try and be some way creative. I promised myself a long time ago that I wouldn't ever sit at home and feel sorry for myself and there's not enough rugby on the telly to keep me busy all day every day. There are times that I can get so annoyed with the whole process that I'm fit to be tied but that's okay too because if I didn't get annoted once in a while I wouldn't be human.

I can sit all day and get tangled up in a song and never be happy with the way it comes across and erase everything that I've done that day, and sometimes I can get it in one take and it feels like pure gold. There's people spend years trying to get the perfect recording and drive themselves mad doing it but that's not what I'm trying to do, I just try to fill my day's the most creative way possible and this is my current outlet. My favourite way of making music is still playing live, there's something about being in the room when the music bounces off the walls and an audience sparkles when they hear something they like and their eyes light up. Not every night is like that, as any singer will tell you, but you have to leave the not so good nights behind and think about the next one.

I'd love to play live more often but I can't commit too far ahead and even at that I could wake up any day and not be able to use my hands and would have to cancel on the day and I never want to do that. I've been offered a couple of gigs and I'll probably play them as the people know all about my condition. For now I'll keep recording in my front room with the wind outside joining in and the rain against the window keeping time and when the time is right I'll go and play some shows and maybe see some of you guys there.