Day 28

Four weeks sober! Whoo hoo!! Break out the champa... err... no hold on.

Well, aside from a random headache the last couple of days (that comes and goes, seemingly directly related to the weather) I've been feeling very good. I've been getting some new (Doctor Lilt) tunes down, keeping myself busy with all things music and generally getting on with stuff.

I had a truly life affirming experience at the Black Box last Sunday for The Carousel gig. It featured a bunch of brilliant local musicians sitting around the audience and taking turns playing, either their own self-penned songs, or improvising completely on their instrument. Once one musician was elected to begin a piece the others would then join in with whatever they felt worked. It was most pleasing because of the Jools Holland style pace of moving between each musician and there were interesting musical extremes all round. A lot of folk / singer songwriter type stuff, but a lot of performers with their own distinct approaches and voices, in total contrast to the free improv LSD-trip style wigging out sessions that sprang up a few times too.

I felt incredibly self-conscious from where I sat as I couldn't contain how moved I was by certain musicians and yet I didn't want to draw attention to who I was focusing on. I smiled a lot and felt more than a few goosebumps break out. With a couple of performances I had to just cover my mouth for fear of catching flies as my jaw lay on the floor.

A really great show, the next one is sometime in February I believe. I can't wait.

Other than that this week has felt nice and full. Today I was practicing with Fragile Human Organs for the first time. We had plenty of technical difficulties as we try to work out how samples, electronics and effects are shared among the band and the logicistics of all that, but jamming through things is sounding good.

I'm looking forward to it all coming together over the coming weeks with FHO fo' sho! Tomorrow I'll be practicing with Hexxed for the first time.