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The Kid Stays In The Picture

No looking over your shoulder

All that's 'so' yesterday

I'm not trying to be unkind

but I simply dont have the time

to play those game some people gotta play

I got a part here for you

you could have written it yourself

your trailers already on the lot.

This aint your first rodeo

but you learn a thing or two

every time you go around the block

and you can hear them say

the kid stays in the picture

the kid still knows the score

and all the things

that he thought that he wanted

well he dont really want'em

anymore

To the casual observer

it might come as a surprise

when you dont play the part as written

but it seems that you've been getting

kind of wise

of late

you're not shy once you've been bitten

Looking like a fool while you're standing there

standing there a pickin' and a grinnin'

All the while she's not smiling at you

she's smiling at the scene and you're in it

and you can hear them say

the kid stays in the picture

the kid still knows the score

and all the things

that he thought that he wanted

well he dont really want'em

(SOLO)

Been so good to have you with us

you know we're all professionals here

Kiss Kiss

Mwah Mwah

We don't pay you to play

we pay for you to disappear

and you can hear them say

the kid stays in the picture

the kid still knows the score

and all the things

that he thought that he wanted

well he dont really want'em

the kid stays in the picture

he's seen this one before

and though he no longer cries

for the ending

he still sticks around

for the applause.

As equally good as it has been to be back on the road, it has been equally good to not be not the road.

If things go back to nromal, it will take some getting used to.

A big thanks to Jonathon and all the folks who joined us on Sunday in Cowra.

If I didnt have to get the car back I would have gladly visited the Japanese Gardens :) Thus, I look forward to going back .

Big ups to MC & MH for a massive roundtrips, respectively.

I have no idea what happens from here :) Not that I need to. We're fairly straight forward. Make what we can while we can. Play as often as we're able.

The rest is background noise, as a wise Shaman said to me.

We have a fallow week, except for some development and writing. Good to see Mr Wizard starting to rouse after quite a long healing process for his shoulder.

Next week work on the next videoclip continues, plus...other stuff.

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The new new normal. Ish. Sort of. Dead cat bounce?

After a few very welcome slow days, it's Do Stuff Time. Again.

Rental cars are busy. New South Wales wants to so something, anything.

Gigs are springing up. Can 30% capacity work? Is this the dead-cat bounce? Where to from here Batman??

It's all a tad above my pay grade.

Our second weekend on the road this weekend.

Meanwhile, my favourite bit. New work. It's spring :)

Stormcellar Collective at Cowra Civic Centre, Sunday 22nd November with Michael Hawke!

Cowra here we come! Stormcellar Collective with Michael Hawke! Sun 22 Nov, Cowra Civic!

Unexpected calm before the CRAB

So close to the first big thing we have done in 9 months I was expecting to be a little more...flustered?

I had not accounted for how much good will and support there is for this thing. I actually took time off today because...things are....

They are as organised as they can usefully be.

Right now Bec is running a test. Garry is checking sound stuff. Carlo is running a test.

The bands are getting their gear together.

I just spoke to Uncle JD who is going to join us on Didge and welcome us to country and that made me feel all warm and fuzzy.

In 13 years of this I have never wavered in my appreciation for this thing that takes me into New South Wales, that walks me across the land of poetry, of dreams.

After so many months in solitude, there is a blossoming in these spaces, into spring.

Who would not be grateful for these things :)

Thanks to all the folk who have put their hard work and effort into a community day.