WHILE Margaret’s sorting breakfast I put some stuff up in the attic – and take a notion to see if I can find an old demo cassette mentioned by someone on Facebook in response to some old studio pix I posted last week.

In a storage box I find it! The Denim Elliots. A three song demo recorded in 1992 in my Kirkcaldy studio with Dave Sinclair on drums, Ronnie Bookless – who had written the songs – on bass and vocals…and yours truly on guitar.

Finding the cassette is one thing, but playing it is another. Now I need to find my 40-year-old cassette deck to see if (a) it might still work and (b) the cassette itself is playable.

I decide the procedure might make a fun livestream and I’m like an over excited kid when I find the deck works…and the cassette plays.

Sadly my pal – and the drummer – Dave Sinclair died a number of years ago…and I lost touch with Ronnie a year or two after we made the demo. I search for him on socials and it’s a goose egg. A bit more online research and I find a tenuous link and fire of an email…I hope it works.

I’d like to put the tracks on Bandcamp or something but only if I can find Ronnie and he’s in agreement. Otherwise I guess they’ll be for private sharing only.

All this discovery, excitement and resulting detective work has taken over a lot of the day and I still have some things on my to-do list.

First, I need to create some slide to go in a presentation for next week’s local hydro society AGM, Then I need to make some notes to aid my part in the presentation.

There’s some information to be added to the poster art for March’s show at The Muse in Brecon and some ticket links to be added to various listings.

Been good to have busy day and take my mind off tomorrow’s early morning trip to hospital for a ‘ultrasound guided biopsy’….