THERE’S some merch mail outs to be sorted…and Walter’s ‘retirement’ coin to be finished off so he can be given it at tonight’s community trust AGM.
We head off to Balloch and drop into the school where I do some sessions for the summer BBQ. Nice to see everyone and meet some of the kids’ parents.
It’s a flying visit before we stop at the post office on the way home.
There’s poster and flyer art to be done for the rest of this year’s gigs then it’s time to go to the village hall for the local community trust (ELLCT) annual general meeting.
Betty comes back to ours for some pulled pork and we chill the rest for the evening.
The first video edit from Thursday’s Glad Cafe show…
USUAL Monday routine – sourdough in the oven, admin, breakfast then an online guitar session.
The local community trust chair is stepping down at tomorrow’s (Tuesday) AGM and I’ve offered to make a wee commemorative brass coin. I begin by designing something suitable.
In the studio I finish off some video edits of a coupla songs from Thursday’s show to spin into tonight’s Wildcats’ Facebook livestream.
I also have some video footage of Shug so edit up a song and send it off to him.
After finishing the artwork for the brass coin I decide to run a small version to check it’s gonna work out.
While it’s processing my afternoon guitar student and her mum rock up.
There’s time for a wee wander up the lochside before I prep for the livestream and go live…
FEELING pretty burst when I wake up but need to get in the shower and get going.
I manage to get the gear unpacked at the studio and the merch in the office/store before breakfast.
There’s time to get a little work done before Missy and Judy arrive. They head back to the ’States on Sunday after a month-long tour of Scotland…and my Glasgow show last night.
I get the pizza oven fired up and we have some pizza, a chat and show them round the village.
We’re having bacon-wrapped pork loin for dinner tonight so I get the smoker going and process underway.
Next, we make a batch of burgers for tomorrow (Saturday) – all the kids are coming to see Auntie Glo so there’ll be a bit of a cook-out party.
Finally, a batch of Alabama White BBQ sauce for the pork then we go along to Betty’s for an aperitif. I nip back home when the met reaches temperature and get to off the smoker and into a faux cambro to keep warm ’til dinner time. Then back along to Betty’s for another glass of wine 🙂
Glad Cafe, Glasgow…a grand night out thank to everyone who came along 🙂
IT’S another nice day…and really warm.
After breakfast with Auntie Glo I hit the studio and finish stringing guitars then start packing the gear and car.
We have a light lunch in the garden then I get some work done while Margaret sorts the merch.
We pick Betty up just after 4pm and make our way onto Glasgow and load in at The Glad Cafe. Betty and Auntie Glo sit in the cafe and have a coffee, Margaret sorts merch and I set up and soundcheck.
Engineer Gav has done my sound before and everything goes smoothly. My pal and special guest opening the show Shug (Al Hughes) soundcheck’s next then we have some grub in the dressing room.
There’s a good crowd in – some Wildcats, folks from both my primary and secondary schools, other pals, relations and lot of ‘new’ folks.
The night goes great and both Shug and I have a blast.
It’s just after midnight when we roll up back home and head off to bed. I’m feeling broken – apart from the heat in the venue I really need to get match fit! Hope it didn’t show!
A BUSY day today starting with an online guitar student at 9am.
We finish just before my in-person guitar student arrives…when she’s through I go for the bus to Balloch.
Margaret’s got the car to pick up Auntie Glo and I have my last session of the academic year with the kids at the school.
I get the bus home and realize the weather might just be OK for a paddle. I’d deflated the paddleboard this morning for the first time in ages, so get it inflated again and message Fiona. Ten minutes later we’re on the water for a quick paddle 🙂
I’m not long home and just getting out the shower when Margaret arrives with Auntie Glo.
I hit the studio to change some guitar strings then we have a lovely dinner and chat for a while.
I finally get round to engraving a bunch of promo bottle opener keyrings
SUN’S SHINING! I’ll get some tidying up done outside before Auntie Glo comes tomorrow (Wednesday).
First, though, I need to do some more promo for Thursday’s show at the Glad Cafe in Glasgow. Tickets sales have picked up over the last week but I wanna have the place full.
Next job is packing some of the Kickstarter reward stragglers…folks whose mailing addresses I need to chase up.
I find a jiffy bag full of bottle opener keyrings that I’ve been meaning to engrave for ages. I tried one when they arrived and it didn’t work very well – today I try some different settings and get a decent result. I make up a jig and manage to get a load of them done in just ten minutes. Good to have them for the merch table at Thursday’show.
Finally I get outside and do some work edging the front garden flowerbeds and tidying things up.
Then it’s onto the back and fixing the fence behind the office and filling part of a crater created by a fallen tree on the other side of the fence.
We need to put some weed barrier on the top, then a load of chuckles but meantime it’s sorted enough to get the log splitter out from under the smoker shelter and back where it came from.
There’s also a big old cross-trainer under the smoker shelter. It’s covered in birds shirt and been there since I took it out the studio!
I ordered a cover on Amazon who’s arrived today so I clean the thing up, move it round behind the bar area and cover it. Job done..just in time for one of guitar students to rock up with his mum.
Margaret gets home from having her hair done in Edinburgh and runs me up the lochside to drop off a Kickstarter CD to Ivor and Izzi.
USUAL early Monday start to get my sourdough in the oven…and Margaret’s off to get the car MoT’d and pick up some shopping.
I have an online guitar lesson mid-morning then do some more work on a flyer for the local community hydro society.
Next, some more promo for Thursday’s show a the Glad Cafe in Glasgow.
It’s another stinkin’ day outside so I don’t get any fo the garden stuff sorted. Instead, some more rehearsals for Thursday before my afternoon guitar student arrives with her mum.
It’s rubbish weather so I hit the studio and run through some of the songs I’m planning to put in my set for Thursday’s show.
I’d a couple of things needing done for the community hydro society which takes a little longer (as ever) than I expect.
There’s been a lot of feedback on the social posts about my logo evolution – I add them all up and scan through the comments. It’s a close thing and if I take into account some of the suggestions and implement them it looks like I’m close to making a decision.
