In the bleak mid-winter...

(I quite like winter, the title was merely referential).

The Shadow Committee has ebbed and flowed for the last couple months around university work, and I performed a couple of gigs in January around my birthday. In London I played at The Unicorn, taking pretty much the same set as I used in September (old 'favourites' such as Blackadder and Entrée), and also using an iPad for backing tracks for the first time. Worked quite well. The other bands were quite different, I very much enjoyed the CD I got from Jesus Hooligan as I drove home.

It was the first time I had travelled on my own to go play a gig - I was a little apprehensive at first, but soon remembered how I quite enjoy driving solo anyway. Heading back to Norwich I was mostly singing loudly, firmly driving home the advantages of not having any other occupants. Also reminded me why I don't subject rooms of people to such an experience anymore.

The rhythm section.

The next day, I played at The Birdcage in Norwich. I split the set between the piano they had (in tune!) and guitar, premiering a new song called Bullingdon. I have never played it as well since.

Haiku Salut headlined excellently, and it was the first proper Ziggurat Creative gig. Went down well, Bill from Collider did a DJ set afterwards. Good times were had by all. I think. We're currently booking more gigs, and have March 31st at Olive's with Matt Stevens.

I also released a new EP over January, which was sections of The Lost World score - and can still be downloaded from bandcamp. It consists of five songs and an extended noise-synth-excursion called 'Roxton's Remorse'.

So far this month, I've been waiting for snow then enjoying the snow; and in between that, coding for my university project. It has been quite a few months coming, but the foundations of my first installation (due at the end of this month) are now in place - I am starting to experiment with the structure of the music tomorrow.

And finally, made the most of the aforementioned snow and took some new promotional pictures. Not that I enjoy or indulge in such activities normally, the snow made it tolerable. Charlie Wallis volunteered his time that morning and was excellent. Perhaps now I can stop using landscape photos to represent The Shadow Committee. Maybe.

It was cold.

I am currently working on re-recording some bits of Lines that sounded bad, finishing the B-side Rumours, collating remixes of Lines and figuring out the ins and outs of new demos 'Max Herbert Doesn't Have A Punctuated Surname' and 'Atari Video Game Massacre'.