Ok. So, er, the last few days have been absolute hell! Happy hell of course. A hell where at least you can nip to the corner shop and buy an egg sandwich and a cup of tea. Or skip to the pub in a frenzy of excitement for a well deserved beer after a hard days grind. Actually that last bit never happened. I've spent over 40 hours in the studio since friday...

Bloody backing tracks is all I can say. The drum parts from the records we've made are all over the place. We managed to find two. The rest I had to program beats in at a frantic pace, mixing while going along and then rehearsing it to see if it fits. It is a horrible job. Soooooo boring and tedious. A little bit like data input. It almost got to the point where I said to Will why don't you just do the tour. No no Tilley! You're coming! Oh fiddlesticks.

All this stress led to Will crashing his car on Saturday morning at 1am. He smacked into the back of a drunk Polish driver who got out the car and continued drinking in front of the police! Poor Will, the car is a wreck! His air bag worked and he and his girlfriend were wearing seat belts thankfully though he bashed his right hand and I rushed him to A and E and mercifully nothing is broken.

Now my old band mate wants his gear back from the studio - two bass amps and the acoustic guitar! Plus the bloke upstairs is getting suspicious about his electricity bill and thinks we're not paying our share, which we're not as our landlord agreed to pay our bills. However there's an impending bill about to be discovered somewhere and I'm in the thick of it!

Oh well. Will and the People are not about stress and this has been the most difficult four days for us. The raging wind is banging tempestuously on the door and the hailstones keep pelting down from above and there seems little shelter at the moment. Ahh, look at me trying to be poetic and searching for sympathy!!

On the positive side the set does sound really good and hopefully you won't notice Simon isn't there! (is it ever possible?)

Cup cakes and cream. We're off on Thursday with Papa Lewis and we'll forget all our woes!

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