Back to one of our regular Govannen venues - Joules Yard in Market Harborough - warm night found us playing outside. Very appreciative crowd - we were still a bit tired from the gig the night before. We got onto different strands which helped liven us up - Dan broke 2 strings so I had to sing more cabaret songs than usual for a Govannen set. I even threw in The Alien Jellyfish Song. We sold 4 CDs 2 each of The Water is Wide and Celtic Fire.

I pretty much finished the cover art to Practical Candle Magic - slightly impeded by it needing to be a dark cover and dark covers and inkjet printers are not best pals. Arrived at suitable compromise. Hope the band like it. It's strange going back to this music - 1991  - our first digital recording ( we had use of an adat). I can hear the influences we obsessed about then - some have remained, some diminished - Stephan Micus was huge for us then as was Oregon & Okay Temiz & Piirpauke - don;t listen to them quite so much. Stivell & Terry Riley and the love of ECM reverb can be heard too and are still very much with me. - fun to hear the bombarde again - plus the classic jam we did with a microphone sticking out of the window to catch street sounds.