Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Updates, news, etc

I've put the EP on the back-burner in order to write some new songs (sorry Ladiesfans), which is long overdue. Abandoning one's muse for any period of time is not to be advised or taken lightly. Currently in the pipeline are "Deep dish", feels like it will turn out to be pretty minimal; I'm going for a cross between "I want a little sugar in my bowl" and "Your flesh is so nice", but it will most likely not sound like either. "Something beautiful" is probably going to sound like something Billy Corgan never got round to writing.

The gigs are pretty interesting, I've been alternating between playing with the superbass, the telecaster and my new spanish (classical) guitar, all of which lends a slightly different vibe to the evening. The classical has a real warmth that you don't get with a steel-strung guitar; the superbass has a mellow fullness because of its awesome low end; and the telecaster, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, "sounds great played in a room with a corrugated iron roof and a concrete floor". It is one zingy motherfucker.