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As we collectively work out what to do to keep the species alive, it's time to take a pause from gigging.

The first venue to cancel just confirmed our 28th of March show is off.

My assessment is that more will follow.

I would not be too surprised if this lasts a little longer than we have contemplated.

Nothin' to do but put your feet up and chill. 

Big thanks to Fox for getting ready, bummer to miss the show, we really like playing music live.

to people.

That's (correctly) not gonna happen for a while. In public at least.

Why?

SCIENCE!

Yessss! good old Science.

For some reason, every now and again, we forget we flew to the moon, knocked over polio (mostly) and do INTERSTELLAR STUFF and instead we start thinking about Flat Earth and Science Denial.

Oh humans.

Plague means No More Gigs for a while?

OK!

This is gonna suck, and it's gonna hurt musicians economically.

Venues and Muso's

Ouch.

This has the potential to be a fundamental, societal shift. Bless my cotton socks for the optimism to hope that it leads to something better.

Meanwhile, practicality supersedes philosophy.

Wait, be safe, do the right stuff. Social Isolation does not mean Isolation.

Call someone. Email someone. Stand outside the window and post to placards. No don't do that.

Ok. Here's another tip, use common sense rather than believe every suggestion on the internet.

I'm not gonna be surprised if a whole, some, or all our gigs shut down over the next while.

That's the right thing to do. I'll complain about it after we survive it :-)

I'm not gonna advertise any of our upcoming shows for a little while and I'll post it if they cancel.

People coming out of my local IGA Supermarket said 'there's food in there!'

Yeah, there is.

Society has not broken down. It's taking a pause.

And we could do with one.

Since the internet took off like a rocket and we all wound up with hand held devices, we have been interconnected to information at a fast pace.

This hasn't all been to our benefit.

Now, in the face of a fact that cannot be denied we have found that spinning the truth into what suit ratings, or opinions, is just bad news.

Not fake, bad. Malevolent even.

It is as much a virus to be feared as COVID.

Panic is infectious, and so are we.

So without minimising the reality of risk, we can at least manage it in a survival minded way.

Listening to actual Doctors and experts, making changes in our behaviour.

For Cellar Dwellers, this makes some sense.

We've always been a retreat from the tempest, as we are now. 

I'd say it's likely that we will see some gigs cancelled. Quite likely, even if only from an abundance of caution.

We have been working on a streaming idea for a while, more shortly. It'll be a bit of fun and you can join in safely, remotely.

Writing and mixing are still in progress, slowly.

I have higher hopes for the work and it's taking me some time to find something that suits how I feel about it. No rush. Comes when it comes.

We'll be streaming some of that work too, as we work on it.

Practising some simple precautions, staying calm, using the tools to stay connected even when we have to be a little further apart, all of these things will help us still be here, when this stuff has passed, together.

Friend of the band, Record collector, Blues Historian and My Dude, Mr D-Dog shares his private stash to spread some original vintage muddy waters:

WIRES sent us this certificate. awww.

They graciously sent certificates to the entire crew of KC locals and notables who made the night possible.

Nice.

So they've cancelled the Dark MOFO festival in Tasmania. 

Anything where people get together is now a no no.

Hmm.

Turns out the month off we have is perfectly timed with the Zombie Epidemic. So either our gigs will get cancelled later, or they won't because it will have passed, or we'll all be Zombies.

All in all, it's the introverts paradise.

Not having to go anywhere and no one thinking you odd for not going anywhere :-)

Cup of tea?

Meanwhile it's mixing and writing.

The material we recorded in Clarksdale has been awaiting space for mixing, looks like that's starting to happen. No rush.

Any time before the apocalypse suits me just fine.

In fact this down time and quiet time is just the ticket. 

Of course if civilisation collapses in the interim, well, that will present some new challenges.

On the plus side, it will certainly provide a new direction for writing.

'Tales of the apocalypse'

Yeah.

But no.

We're going to have to get our information systems in order at some point.

It'd be good to be able to have better faith in our media and in what some governments tell us.  

Meanwhile, the global village is moving into quarantine and face masks.

Valiantly, and with little regard for my personal safety, I shall continue to blog, not leaving my bunker unless it is to fight for TP and Paper Towels amongst the wastelanders of what was once our proud state, now reduced to ordering in pizza and watching cable.

When we're onto DVD's of star trek re-runs you know it's the end times for sure.

Hmm. Maybe I'd better get a hustle on finishing this album.