Calm Before The Storm and the Buildup to Palestine
It's been just over two weeks since the last gig, and it's only In the absence of shows that I'm remembering what it's like to have time. Time to plan, organise and tidy. Whilst the gig schedule is looking fairly healthy from March onwards, we're getting time to get new material together and figure out a plan. Concensus seems to be flowing in the direction that we don't necessarily need to be signed in order to proceed. The problem that keeps coming up time and time again is that establishing a larger fanbase and trying to market ourselves towards labels seem to be two plans that oppose each other and at the moment, the result being that we end up being worried about doing either so end up doing nothing. Impatience is definitely brewing like a fine tea so I think the deadlock will break soon.
Creativity continues to pose a problem. It's that step that you take from sitting in a comfort zone where everything makes sense to stepping outside of that zone - but yet mostly still within an existing framework of understanding, it seems such a surreal and bizarre thing to me. I can clearly see two approaches requiring different though processes - firstly one of having a goal and then trying to find a way to get there, and secondly another of having a toolset available that you experiment with to see where it goes. Perhaps like the difference between engineering and 'pure science' (if such a thing exists any more) and after all, the fields of maths and science are becoming increasingly more apparent that they're the ultimate forms of creativity.
I just have to watch Cheesecake, my kitten, to compare how having a less creative mind leads to being less fit for survival in an evolutionary sense. Necessity and desire certainly drive creativity and I've recently noticed that words and beats flow better when I'm hungry.
Nelly's been off to Thailand for a a couple of weeks to hang out with elephants in the sun. Aside from him dropping into the site forum to take a sneaky peek at what we're up to, we haven't heard too much from him so we guess he's having a good time. I've got my own break coming up soon - I'll be running away with the Boomchucka circus on their tour of Palestine in February to document and photograph their antics. Unfortunately I'll only be with them for a week due to having to get to the Subsource show in Spain on the 1st March, but I'm both proud and thrilled to be able to have an insight into this amazing organisation. This group of mostly self-funded voluntary performers heads out to entertain kids and kids-at-heart in wartorn areas. Iraq and Afghanistan have been included in previous tours of duty, but with the current situation out there being deemed a little too volatile, it's back to the West Bank for a second consecutive year. Whilst it will be a fascinating and scary experience all at once, I'm totally fascinated by what drives these people to such a crazy and beautiful endeavour.
I'll be meeting up with them next week.
Creativity continues to pose a problem. It's that step that you take from sitting in a comfort zone where everything makes sense to stepping outside of that zone - but yet mostly still within an existing framework of understanding, it seems such a surreal and bizarre thing to me. I can clearly see two approaches requiring different though processes - firstly one of having a goal and then trying to find a way to get there, and secondly another of having a toolset available that you experiment with to see where it goes. Perhaps like the difference between engineering and 'pure science' (if such a thing exists any more) and after all, the fields of maths and science are becoming increasingly more apparent that they're the ultimate forms of creativity.
I just have to watch Cheesecake, my kitten, to compare how having a less creative mind leads to being less fit for survival in an evolutionary sense. Necessity and desire certainly drive creativity and I've recently noticed that words and beats flow better when I'm hungry.
Nelly's been off to Thailand for a a couple of weeks to hang out with elephants in the sun. Aside from him dropping into the site forum to take a sneaky peek at what we're up to, we haven't heard too much from him so we guess he's having a good time. I've got my own break coming up soon - I'll be running away with the Boomchucka circus on their tour of Palestine in February to document and photograph their antics. Unfortunately I'll only be with them for a week due to having to get to the Subsource show in Spain on the 1st March, but I'm both proud and thrilled to be able to have an insight into this amazing organisation. This group of mostly self-funded voluntary performers heads out to entertain kids and kids-at-heart in wartorn areas. Iraq and Afghanistan have been included in previous tours of duty, but with the current situation out there being deemed a little too volatile, it's back to the West Bank for a second consecutive year. Whilst it will be a fascinating and scary experience all at once, I'm totally fascinated by what drives these people to such a crazy and beautiful endeavour.
I'll be meeting up with them next week.
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