It’s Sunday and I’m at home today. It’s fantastically quiet and I’m drinking a new kind of green tea I’ve recently discovered – It’s sencha with mint. Frankly I feel like a saint as it’s almost 7pm so, if you ask me, I should be drinking  a nice glass of red instead. But that will come next…

The most wonderful thing happened a few weeks ago – “Withnail and I”, my favourite movie of all time, was given away free in the paper. Honestly, if I didn’t believe in a benevolent universe before that, I do now. In fact, as I sit here writing this blog and sipping my green tea, I can hear part of the soundtrack coming from my neighbours window – so presumably they’re watching it. I cannot say enough about that film. If you haven’t seen it, you must.

In other news, I played Bramfest Festival a couple of weeks back which was so much fun. They had me in this bright red bigtop and the audience sat on hay bales. I felt like I was in the midst of a David Lynch movie. Anyway, I got to play a couple of new songs so that was exciting. One of these I wrote whilst I was in Campbeltown whilst playing the Kintyre Songwriter’s Festival, which, fyi, was also fantastic. I had no idea Scotland was so incredibly beautiful. Fantastic fudge too.

In the middle of that I played a couple of other gigs, one in London at The Source Below for The Curious Generation which was wonderful – it’s a cool little bar that is, as the name suggests, kind of like a basement. The sort of place you might walk past and not know it’s there unless you’re looking for it. So yes, very cool. I also played one in Brighton with the very talented Ocean Reid at The Latest Bar (which used to be called Joogleberry – and according to the very friendly text response I got from 63336, a service that will answer any question you send it for a pound, Amy Winehouse played there a while back). Am going to be touring Germany in October with Ocean so am very excited about that.

I’ve started a new art project of photographing the ceilings of the places I play/stay when at a gig. Don’t ask me why: I’m an artist thus primarily instinctual, not logical. Will post some very soon so you can all marvel at my insanity : )

And finally, I have a gig next Monday at The Troubadour. It’s an amazingly famous and very cool venue near Earls Court. As I will have only just got my new CD back from the printers I’m going to be giving away a free copy with entry. So let me know if you can make it and I’ll put your name on the door.

Hope you’re all well!!!

Pip xxxxxxx

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