Tue 23rd Sept A lot of interesting releases this week, firstly the long awaited Aphex Twin album, then today came the new Leonard Cohen record and an unexpected single release from Bigott. I'm not gonna review these things, except to say that the Bigott single is a slight departure, sounds a bit like a band's first studio demo with a 60s twang & beautiful for that reason among others. First track on playlist above. Losing track of what I'm doing here again, make take another break from the whole thing. Fri 19th Sept I'm back in London and, well, am picking up the pieces. Stockholm was beautiful and we're starting to make some progress with life on the town there, recorded a small choir who we met practicing under a bridge, will get that into the next 'cast. Found a couple great venues too, and then came Berlin. Was amazing to catch up with many people, some Love Rivals, and to meet myriad new ones, but it's taken a lot out of me. Was so intense at times, on my last night for example I got into a cab and as soon as the door shut & I announced my destination, I cried for the whole journey with the drivers arm around my shoulder, then paid - got out - and carried on with my evening.. and I wasn't even sad, just so overwhelmed y'know. Driver gave me his card and said that if I wanted a place to stay I should call and he would give me his key, imagine that happening in London! Was gonna tell a few stories but don't know how they'll translate to language. Got some shows coming up & rehearsals with new drummer, see the Jeeps Facebook Page for all that business, and stay in touch I guess. Eddie has started playing with another band with Hannah from H. Grimace, the new Weezer song Cleopatra is awesome, and I seem to have left all my clothes in Germany so should go sort that out I guess. Was cool to see my name in a film credit, just 'Glen' on an otherwise empty screen, nearly spat out my popcorn. Thankfully it's still sunny in town, gonna take a walk up Primrose Hill I reckon. Byes! Thu 4th Sept New page then. Let's talk about me. Now we got no clubnight anymore and fuck that anyway 'cos 99% of the bands we try to support talk down to me like I'm trying to rip them off; like I'd never understand the artist life. We're due to start full band rehearsals soon but we're off to Sweden tomorrow for a wedding in a castle that we're also gonna perform at, then at the first sign of the next full moon I'm gonna pop over to Berlin to catch Lars Koch's new film which is being screened in a cinema & that's all I know of the matter. I recorded Nick Towler performing a song that's being used for the end credits, and nobody knows where he is these days. Serendipity is rearing her head again, and I feel caught up with something bigger than myself once more. Among a million other coincidences, I'm going to Munich to find my bag & as it turns out Joe Groke will be there at the same time. Literally the same actual day. I just gotta keep rolling up that hill. When I think of being back in Berlin, and seeing the people there who were such a part of my continued development as a Glen, I get pretty religious sensations. Dammit we've lived, in ancient times and some more recent also, but I've learned that such experiences; the magic and the intensity, comes at a price. Of course it must! The man who from the bronze image of the "Pleasure that liveth for a moment" has to make the image of the "Sorrow that abideth for ever". The horrifyingly vague memories, the blurred & slumbering colours of the past, that nostalgia for what is lost even beyond empathy for oneself, this is what I face in Berlin - until, that is, I put on some music, crack open a Becks and see one of those silly fools who I love with all my aching limbs smile back at me with some recognition of a broad and broadening wonderment, devoid of any pretence of understanding or a single wish to know more.

Fri 19th Sept Our regular rehearsal space Scar closed down a few months ago so we were forced to practice elsewhere & found nothing worth staying loyal to, but it seems that Scar has just opened a new studio opposite our house, in a redeveloped public toilet under the ground.. will book a room there tomorrow & take some photos! Here's one from their website: A whole glut of great new music was here for me upon my return, including the new Weezer single Cleopatra, a debut album from London's fantastic Famy and a full length release from So Cow called The Long Con. Have added key tracks to the Stormset Playlist on Spotify, which none of my friends are following 'cos I suppose they reckon they can just find new music for themselves right? Well how come 99% of the people I know are still exclusively listening to the same tunes they were 15 years ago, or the new Ed Sheeran album then, huh. Fri 5th Sept Art Sorority For Girls fabulous output would generally be placed on the left side of the page but, in the words of the man himself, this song is Perhaps the closest I've ever come to sounding like "a DC band."