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Well that's a turn up for the books.

Is it 'cos we iz Commonwealth Cousins? 

Liz was foxy eh? I mean, err, your majesty was foxy. Should I capitalise F in Foxy?

Ok so referencing Queen Elizabeth the 2nd whilst discussing Canadian Airplay of a Sydney/Kansas City Blues Album is pretty darn eclectic, eh, eh?

No wonder we're also getting airplay in Quebec!

Viva Le Strange!

Three albums getting airplay right now :-) Yeah it's been a busy period.

The EFLH/TCA combo is in heavy rotation on WBSD whilst KC Gold is picking up mucho airplay in the US Also! One show featured 6 tracks from it.

Woot.

Meanwhile...I greatly enjoyed the drive up to Katoomba and the show, but I have a Cold and I'm on some Chemists Own formulation and holy crap it's 2am.

We've got two shows tomorrow and my nasal passages are now clear and I'm buzzing like a bee. I'm fairly sure I shouldn't be operating Heavy Machinery right now but I kind of feel like doing just that. 

Right in the middle of the set tonight the decongestant kicked in. Right when I was playing harp. It was not cool. Luckily Theo had a tissue, or it would have just been ghastly. On such a busy weekend this should happen? Argh.

Cheers to Doc and Lindsay for coming out. It's still winter in the mountains. Brisk!

That's it. I gotta go watch Ancient Aliens until this stuff wears off :-)

Tomorrow....err....today...we're at the Marrickville Festival and then Rubys, so long as I hold out.

Gene's coming out to hang, record and do some shows. First shows already announced.

I could give you more details but nah. I'm busy editing. Come back tomorrow.

Also gotta fix that calendar, it's driving me nuts.

D-Dawg suggests we run a Vinyl pressing of KC Gold.

I'm all for it, but I'm still a little contrarian...about many things I guess, but I've never really understood the Vinyl fascination

Now before I get email about it, you are not allowed to email me about 'How Awesome Vinyl Is' unless you have:

1. Worked with Magnetic, Analogue Tape, in a multi-track recording environment (Vinyl came from Master Tapes back in the day, 'member)

2. Then moved over to digital.

3. Remembered that I am not Disrespecting Vinyl. We're up for doing it, I am just conjecturing. 

There IS a difference in sound quality, but it's a bit like vegemite.

Grow up with it, MMM Good.Otherwise...

As a band, we have worked on 2 track Nagra, 8 Track Obscura, 1 Inch and 2 inch Spacejunk, some of which is still in complete production mode today and cranking out Big Name Stuff.

But...if you haven't seen something like this: 

 then you might not truly get OMG how much easier Digital Land is.

Now Imma Say Stuff What Might Get Me In Trouble.

Analogue was superior to digital in capture bandwidth....up until a little while ago.

Solid State Drives and Massive Bandwidth means some of the new stuff is pretty much a generation beyond analogue.

At the same time, they talk about the ability of tape to 'glue' a song together.

'Nuff said. If we get enough folks who want it on Vinyl, I say let's do it, I'll be curious to hear how it comes out.

Busy weekend coming.

Saturday at Katoomba, Sunday 2 shows - the Marrickville Festival & then Ruby L'otel, and I think Jo may be with us!