OK I know this site hasn’t been updates since 1765 but this is a new era…One of dynamic movement, assured regularity and sausages on Tuesday. Gone is the sloppy devil may care, unbuttoned shirt chaos of yesteryear, for amidst the squalls and wind I hear a faint shrill voice crying…’the site the site….update the blessed site…’
And so here we are on the Sceptered Isle, covered in cloud and damp and yet awaiting the winter….and what is there to say????
There’s the rub Sirrah, it’s all very well for fine words to tumble from the mouths of soothsayers, but what of the men of action???? Cybernet culture is OK but it doesn’t grow cabbages and this is what we may well need in the approaching lean days when fine meat will be hard to come by and cider rationed in the glass.
As you may well deduct I haven’t had a holiday this summer as such unless you count a couple of days in the rainy Scillies Isles with Ben Waters. We also played at The Hackney Empire before Chuck Berry which was amusing. The last night I joined his band on stage for an impromptu closing number while Chuck put his feet up in the dressing room, so I closed the show as well. I hope he didn’t mind too much, the smell of the greasepaint must have got to me.
The Atcha band shone through too at the annual Marlborough bash and sounded better than ever, so I am looking forward to the next gig on September 13th at the Thames Festival….bopping with Boris maybe.
On the record front I am finishing up a new record made here in Zummerzet in my barn studio and I have had some great musicians come to contribute including Danny Thompson, John Etheridge, Malcolm Mortimore, John ‘Rabbit’ Bundrick, Charlie Hart, Eliet Mackrell, Danny Shayler, Dave Hatfield and Robin Tothill to name 17. It’s all very soulful I think and a bit different from the others so I need to get that out ASAP so I don’t have to talk about it any more.
So this will be the first missive of many and if I fail then you know I have fallen down a well someplace so throw me a rope. Thanks.
Chris Jagger
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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