Perhaps you know life is getting too busy when 'relax' is on your to-list and is the only thing you haven't ticked off on a list of 20 tasks. But then again, that does mean I have done 19 other things, which can't be bad. Most of them fairly standard stuff ('learn the new set by Monday', 'book venue for preview dates' etc) and some of them slightly more time consuming, but 2012 has gone reasonably to plan so far; I reckon as it stands I'm about 2 weeks behind schedule, which isn't the end of the world. At the moment my most recent project has been the murder mystery script - we decided to put on one of these events as an Edinburgh Fringe fundraiser and it takes place in a couple weeks time. We have lovely cast confirmed for it (Izzy, Grace, Alan, Vaughan), and tickets are slightly more expensive than our usual offering - but then again that does include food, so I just wanted this to be a bit special. I've gone through various drafts and ideas, mostly shite, but I'm now confident that 'My Unfunny Valentine: Death Of A Comedienne' (originally 'Death Of A Bimbo' but Izzy didn't like the word 'bimbo' in the title) is nice and lively. I was kindly lent a box-set of Miss Marple DVD's by the awesome Julia from marketing as a way to inspire me - I've watched and actually enjoyed them, but then when I carried on working on my own script it's very much a Paul Richards piece and not at all traditional, but you know...it had a murder, there's plenty of mystery about it, I think we'll be alright.
As with all these projects though there comes a lot of admin, and I'm struggling to keep up with it all at times - talking to fringe venues, sponsorship, venues for fundraisers...just about on top of it as of this evening, as much as I'm currently a bit rubbish at replying to emails from friends about social things. But I mustn't forget - it's all very exciting really, so as long as I remember to enjoy these projects (after all I take them on for a reason) it'll be a good year. One of the most exciting things is the forthcoming Dowsing For Sound gig, more details on that soon but as a band we started rehearsing again last week for the first time in September, and next Sunday we'll be back with the full choir...the idea of 60-odd singers singing songs by the likes of Divine Comedy, Guillemots and Rufas Wainwright excites me a great deal, Dowsing is a very wonderful thing indeed and I'm thrilled we're doing it all again.
I spent pretty much the whole weekend in the studio with Aidy, Dave and Bugs for further work on the British IBM album - it's sounding completely awesome. In between that I popped down to catch the Twelve Clay Feet album launch (with Aidy, studio/techie wizard Phil, acting chum Steve, Julia from marketing and her mate Fran) last night which was really very good, and this morning Grace came over to go through some of the new Oscar Pike material - I'm excited about Oscar again now, it just seems to have turned out really nicely. Next week I'm with the Dowsing For Sound dudes a couple times, meeting a director, editing content for LoveSongwriting, playing in London with Trevor and trying to finish three plays. Yeah, relaxing is for wimps anyway...
Currently watching: Human Remains (DVD), Miss Marple (DVD box-set), Match Of The Day
Currently listening to: Broken Family Band - Hello Love, Broken Family Band - Please And Thank You, Paul Heaton - Acid Country, Carole King - Tapestry
Currently reading: Paul Watson - 'Up Pohnpei' (yes, I know - I'm a slow reader)
Currently eating: pies
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