Hello again! 

Well I'm certainly in a chirpy mood despite the misty rain and the suspicious nag at the back of my nose that warns a cold might be coming. There's lots going on this month and lots more to come and already people have begun to ask me when the album will be out. It's coming but bear with me, we are still aiming for October. Stage one is complete but next there's mixing then mastering then album art then duplication then distribution, possibly license deals... the list kind of goes on and on so without snowballing a load of confusion on you all I'm just going to keep saying, it's coming :) and spare you the grizzly details.

So next up this month is Pilton Green Man Festival and I was immediately excited and flattered when I saw 621 (last I checked) people said they were going to see me on facebook. I then realised that mine was the only event page that came up for green man so it's pretty much just people saying they are going to the festival... haha oh well, it's a great excuse to wear my new green maxi dress - which I probably will wear come rain or shine - and I'm looking forward to trying out some new tunes as always. After Pilton I'm onto Warwick which is in 2 weeks.  Man that's crept up on me. I think it's only just begun to sink in that things are getting a bit serious and I'd better get my butt in gear and polish off some setlists, maybe oh I don't know even write some down! I'm mad I just keep it all in my head 'til the last minute and find myself scrawling them on scrap bits of paper at work in between the 'hello and welcome to's. Perhaps it's time I got a bit more organised...

Well I promised you more stories from the Convent so I shall tell you briefly of the control room (where the lovely Max resides) and the weird things that lie within. Bear in mind it is a converted convent, a very recently converted convent and so everything is stone, wood and wisdom but there in the corner of the room to the left of the ginormous mixer is a very curious cupboard. Max revealed that it opens on both sides of a wall  and has something of a turntable inside. It was in fact where orphans or unwanted children were delivered to the convent for the nuns to raise. People would place a child in the cupboard, turn the little plate inside to the other side of the wall where the nuns would be waiting and when they turned it back around the child would be gone. I found that so terribly sad when Max told us but he did put a good spin on it really, no pun intended, and did remind me that had the nuns not been there, the lives of the children would have been a fair bit bleaker. Good point; I stand corrected but inevitably remain saddened by this cupboard's existence. 

Maybe it'll emerge in a song somewhere down the line...

So I guess to sum up, there's much more to come and lots of exciting things happening :-) I'm very much looking forward to getting things confirmed so I can share them with you all and quit with the cryptic but until then...

 

Rose x ;)