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We're doing a debrief, this week, on Season 1 of Downtime. Gotta pick a new name for Season 2...

if there is one.

Heh.

The Great Restarts

New Zealand is COVID clear and this bodes well for the direction we can expect here in Oz.

Already the traffic is back, the planes are returning to the skies.

Yet it's a bubble of safety in a turbulent time. Much like a stormcellar. Hmm.. who knew how dang appropriate this band name would turn out to be.

The Great Reboot, the Uber Restart, I can feel it in me bones...arrr....it be comin' 

Soon the muso's will escape from dormancy and seek once more, in safe, socially distant ways, to gain the energy response from Humans.

Meanwhile it's that time of year for forward planning and as the Absolute End Times have not materialised (dang it) I guess working out what comes next is a thing.

There is a plan. It might not be the right plan, it may in fact only be a series of bullet points and 2/3 of those are 'Screw Flanders' (10 points if you get the reference). But A Plan it is. Now we work it! Or more specifically we work. That'll do.

Expect some more changes. Pre and Post COVID music worlds are gonna be different, why would we stay the same? Everything changes, nothing stays the same :)

Imma go silent for a few days of chill time and then we'll see what we see eh? Silence betokens assent, right :)

Special guest all the way from Kansas City to celebrate the final ep of Downtime Season one!

Things went well. Except for one streaming key. 

And some bandwidth issues.

And yet...soo calm that was an easy show. Cheers to Bec. We almost got there. Also to be fair, cheers to me too for not panicking as we were 2 mins into broadcast with no solution and then I remembered another button to click. Heroic Mousing Award goes to Me.


It has taken us a pilot season and a full season to get it mostly right. Right enough. Enough.

Right-Ish. Musically developing nicely as well, bye the bye :) An excellent combined effort from The Fox, Mr Coggins and Theo. Well done chaps.

One last show for Season 1 and then? Well ya just don't know do ya? :P Fun at the end times has never been so fun.

the lessening of the blue

that we didn't notice we had lost

until we all stopped

and outside

the oil and grease were wiped away from the skies

gently cleaned away

and a brighter sharper line of the buildings in the distance

a yellower sun

a slower pace, as if the storm had abated,

bays gentled by calmer tides

The browning has returned

as if the souring of milk

a taste we had gotten so used to

we hadn't noticed

and now that we have once again tasted

briefly

sweetly,

clean water, air like sunshine

we know it more

we will yearn for it again

perhaps secretly

and in dreams

revisit quiet times

and bluer skies