Don't think twice, the time is right

I remember telling you back in April that I'd written my first new song in bloody ages. Well, eight months in (and a showcase gig to boot in September) and I've now got eight (count 'em) new songs. That's practically an album's worth! Well it would be if I were to record them; yep, that's my 2025 project. Tho' any mention of the word 2025 is all a bit tentative at the moment as I may well be sitting out the first part of the year*. 

Anyway, back to the songs. Tomorrow's Third Thursday Songwriters meet up at the Winchester will see me playing my latest ditty. It's called This is Your Life and is my stab at writing something both uplifting and, dare I say, inspirational; September and October's tunes were, if not bleak, then certainly on the dark side! So as this will probably be my last one for the year, I'd like to go out on something of a 'high'. I've arranged it so that the brass (I know a great trombone player) I can hear in my head can be overlaid in the studio to make me sound like I know what I'm doing.

Another more imminent project, however, is something I'm starting this weekend. I'm putting together another photo book - a companion piece to Battersea and Beyond. It'll be a similar format with 30 odd new photographs with maybe a bit more text this time. I've got a long list of around 75 pics and I'll be spending Sunday afternoon knocking it into shape and coming up with a zappy title (as opposed to the non-zappy title that I'm currently calling it in my head). In an ideal world I'd like to have it completed and back from the printers in 2/3 weeks but depending on how the cards fall next month (which will be out of my hands) I may not be able to distribute it till next year. Bear with.

*Apologies if this reads a bit, how can I say, mysterious (I'm not trying to be coy) - I will let everyone know (some of you know already) what's occurring when I know for sure what's happening and when...