I’M STILL not 100% but not feeling too bad when I wake up. Mikey heads off into Glasgow then Margaret jumps int he car to go to a community organisation event in Crieff hosted by DTAS.
She’s only just left when my guitar student arrives and we have a good session.
Tickets are (extremely) slow for the Brighton show a week on Saturday so top priority is to get a news release together and contact the local/regional media. I strike lucky and manage to speak to journos on two of the main papers and set up a Zoom interview for tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon.
Having made promo key rings to put out as giveaways at the last few shows I’m keen to maintain the goodwill generated. I suspect quite a few folks at the hall fundraiser gig on Saturday will have been at a recent show and hence already have key rings so I 3D print a jig to engrave aluminum bottle opener key rings for this Saturday.
I’m not long back in the studio after lunch when the doc calls – a planned phone appointment. It was set up when I was discharged from Forth Valley Hospital a fortnight ago to discuss options to try and get this mystery vomitting thing under control….or at least try and head it off at the pass when it looks like it’s gonna start. Twenty-odd years of it is really getting us down. I’ve had cameras up and down, every test known to human kind and spoken with doctors and consultants in numerous UK hospitals, not to mention in Finland and the USA!
More recently there has been mention of abdominal migraine and some kind of pre-loaded injection that might help. Of course, we won’t know until it gets put to the test….
Anyway, I didn’t expect another hospital episode so soon so I fully prepped for my chat! The doc agrees that the best next step it to try the injections so will prescribe the necessary.
There’s a load of stuff needing done for the community hydro society and once that’s out the way I have to test a new system PRS is developing to allow artists to register their live performances. I’m one of a handful of testers on the pilot.
Next on my list is getting a news release out to radio with promo links for the forthcoming Going to See the King EP along with Info on the Aldershot and Brighton gigs that co-incide with the release.
Once done I edit up a short 20-second teaser video about the EP to start spreading round my socials then go back to the house for dinner.
FInal job of the night is engraving a big batch of bottle opener keyrings….
