Down to business

There exists a notion that being in the music profession is somewhat glamorous and somehow romantic and whilst I wouldn't like to dissuade anyone from the fact that might well be the truth at times, sometimes it's just plain frustrating hard work - and sometimes with little reward. A lot of the time we find ourselves not necessarily making things happen but trying to set-up opportunities for things to happen and then you just cross your fingers and hope they work out.

Today, Stuey and I found ourselves at the 'London Calling' dance music conference. No real game plan, but people are there to shake hands and do business so we took a bunch of CDs along and checked it out. It was touted as something pretty big but it was a lot smaller than expected. This is the first year its been run and I can see it becoming something much bigger, but at least we met some like-minded people and the A&R advisor guy (Justin somebody at Positiva) didn't say anything bad about us or our approach to trying to get a deal. Like the employee of the month award, both encouraging and disparaging at the same time.

On other fronts, it looks like Paul is moving out of London to be much nearer to the rest of us, which is going to make life a little easier for everyone.