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So i thought i might put pad to key.
This has been my busiest year but it doesn’t show up in the world yet!Nevertheless efforts of FUN have resulted in 14 songs recorded and 12 of them are ready to mix.This is happening November’s beginning while i carry on writing.
I really fancy getting back to some painting as well……something non musical;when you love a thing as much as i love music you always feel like you have the potential to lose EVERYTHING!
Hasn’t happened yet,don’t expect it to…………but dammit if it doesn’t occasionally feel imminent.
Like the last few weeks!
So……no word from me (hah like we care!) and a bit of a crazed CV around the house.Ah well we all go through periods of utter dejection feeling that it’s all POINTLESS………!
Don’t we?
Hmm?
Also got some exciting plans in the pipeline (well I find them so even if noone else will………bugger it!).Announcements from the delish Karen as soon as we’ve worked out how to start doing the things we want to do.Setting stuff up in the digital world seems to take JUST as long as in the real world!
And a good digital architect can be hard to find!(don’t eat much though).
BTW ‘snot really worth asking me about dates constantly;i’ll be playing live as soon as i start getting some decent offers.
We are constantly trying at this end to find allies eager to enter the music adventure with us.Concerts just not happening at the moment.They will.
More soon i’m sure (i’m a terrible windbag).
And remember;if you’re going to get your knickers in a twist……….make sure someone ELSE is wearing them!
love CV
........to everyone who responded so openheartedly to my wee blog.
i am aware i run the risk of coming over as a pompous windbag but it’s a risk i’m prepared to take (so say all pompous windbags i’m sure!).
reading your comments made me think again about the curious relationship that is the music maker/music consumer…or artist/fan…or whatever we call it.
personally i’m only comfortable with the former.those of you i’ve corresponded with directly it’s been because in some way i picked up on the fact that you related to me first as a human being.i take that to mean i am only one of many different things you are interested in in your life.it’s important but it’s NO BIG DEAL (and i may absolutley abhor your other choices,it really is our call no?)!
this is cool
“fans” usually distress me.there’s little healthy about any obsession but i have had enough of the stalking type behaviour and its’ congruent actions to have me want to stay well away.
this means i really do not like things like signings.star behaviour in one form or another.where is the reason for it?
where is the music,the poetry?
me?i’m almost on my knees when i hear something THAT good,when i’m in the concert hall and the MOST beautiful surprise is visited me by the artist!it is why i do what i do;i aspire to the same thing…a sharing.
which is why i insist on the presence of joy (pompous terminology….don’t know how to say it).a tour becomes,after a certain point,something intended to achieve something ie sell records.
and the cart is suddenly before the horse!
reading your responses made me realise how lonely i had become.i don’t get the chance to play live as much as i’d like to (maybe i’ll start podcasting some of the extraordinary sessions we have in our family kitchen here in west cork!) so we don’t meet;you and i.
i hope to do something about this.
when you tell me how much you love my music it doesn’t inflate my ego or anything else,it HUMBLES me.
i think i understand because i am the same way.sometimes we just need to communicate something…a thank you,a well done,a keep on keeping on….whatever.sometimes i have even embarrassed myself trying to say thanks to someone who created something that meant so much to me (typical of me to overcomplicate something so simple).
know what?i don’t feel so lonely anymore
whether there’s 100 of you out there or 111,000 it doesn’t matter.
i didn’t really get the myspace thing;don’t have enough time to keep in touch with my proper friends so what is THIS all about?
doesn’t matter
somefriends are actually IN your life
and some visit
a melody carried on the wind
nice one
thanks again
CV
hello
CV here
just back from the eastern european tour with Dog Tail Soup and felt compelled to write something about it (i know i know…...rocking horse shit!).
THIS was undoubtedly the most joy i have ever experienced in a tour context;the best audiences,the most inspiring and generous musicians,the one gives me memories almost all good i will carry with me to the end of my days!
humble thanks to the people of Poland,Slovakia and Czech Republic for reminding me of what it can all be like….....so refreshingly uncynical,passionate about life and art.Love it!
humble thanks to my fellow musicians who rocked my world (and no drummer!) in a new way.
some nights we played for two and a half hours and it passed like 30mins.transported by the moment i was often unaware of what i had just done…..to be woken startled from the reverie by Fergus’ face grinning up at me from his chair “fuckin’ go on lad”
can’t tell you all how many times i have felt like throwing in the (bitter) towel in the last few years since i started making records again
nothing is as it was;in music,our lives
but i believe it will be better than ever.i’m standing for this.
i may never do anything the same way again.the drudgery of tours seems completely counter productive (except in the way of pushing “product”).i refuse to think this way ever again.
if there’s no joy there’s no point!
albums?i don’t know
this future has no rules i’m interested in
i think i can make my own
or i’ll go down trying!it need not be anyone’s concern but mine.
i could go on and on
but i won’t.
who knows i might get a taste for this….......................and NOBODY needs to read it!
my manager steve once said a thing to me i will never forget and i invite you to consider it yourselves
“you have given your life to be who you are today,was it worth the price”?
with much love
CV
if there is more than one way to skin a cat – just how many are there?
two drums and a cymbal fell off a cliff…............
ba-bum tch!
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