Before February runs out a few notes in here about what I've been up to...

I've moved on (again) to the quiet suburb of Forest Hill in London to shack up awhile in some cosy surroundings. With only one month left on my contract, I'm gearing up for more time on music, not least my ambition to start a new band and get gigging.

Last weekend, I caught-up with producer James Sanger and had a sneak preview of the Rubylux album (sounding good BTW), and worked on some new stuff. Without a regular singer, it was down to me to lay down a guide vocal for track 'Lovely Suicide', which I'm now using to measure-up singers. I'm reminded why it is I'm searching for vocalists, when I'm cruelly dessimated by the pitch corrector; its correction level leaping like a bullfrog- I think that everyone can sing, but the slightest vocal mistake turns you off faster than the image of anne widdecombe in edible underwear.

In the meantime, my StarNow shortlist is even shorter with only three left in the running, plus a couple of other dudes from Gumtree. I'm hoping to hear from people, although in truth I'm resigned to the fact that looking down lists of mugshots isn't exactly the same as going out there, and so I'm thinking about just trying-out this last lot of people and then concentrating on my own thing. If I'm gigging, perhaps I'm going to run-into more people, and in the meantime I'm sorting out a set and getting back under the lights.

The current space I'm in is ideally suited to working and recording. Its been the home to a creative comedy writer and musician for twenty years, and its served him well; I'm planning on making the most of it this Spring/Summer to springboard back into action.

I'm post a track tonight of some music I wrote a few months ago but hadn't dusted off until now. I worked on it in the studio last week and its morphing into a quite remarkable shape... let me know what you think about it so far...