Jax Burgoyne Writes

So tonight was Jess's album launch.  And I got to read out a story (need to get some new ones ready - did WHMS again).  AND then Jess came on (first were The Proposition.  They're really good.  And surprisingly spry lol.  Oh no, that was ageist.  Witty attempt vs pc ness.  Hmm.) and at one point during her obviously fantastic set she then said 'Now can we get Jax back up...' and produced a shakey egg.

Basically, before every gig on our tour (pretty much) Jess would say 'Play the Irish whistle' (I revealed to her on the second day that I used to play the recorder - descant and treble!) and I would say 'No way,' then 'Oh I could play the shakey egg' - get all excited about that, and then chicken out.  So now I had to.  She did a cover of Carol King's 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow'.  I'm so pleased!  Now all I have to do is
1. become a Pussycat Doll and 2. Get on Desert Island Disks (as a guest of course) and then my life is done.

Well on with my pineapple.

(I also like when people comment, thank you people!)

So I thought I'd blogged about NYC but I'd only imagined it.  I need to work on keeping those things distinct in my mind lol.  (Reality and things I've just thought about.)  Currently I'm reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series - VERY good, must add him to people I hope have influenced me, because I hope he is - and I think that a character I've made up would be great to play the lead if they ever made it into a film.

Jess went down really well at The Bitter End on Sunday 4th .  They'd pegged her as good (a G by her name on the list) and even though she had to play on a borrowed guitar as always people loved her.  (Not at all jealous lol.)

We had an odd but cool night on Friday 2nd - we went to what we thought was an open mic at Staten Island, but was actually a bass guitarist, a really good one, who wanted some people to jam with.  He improvised a pretty good bassline to one of Jess's bluegrass songs.  I wished we could have worked out something with me reading out a story and him playing - I want to try to do some music/writing mix thing - but none of the stories I had seemed right and I couldn't work out how to do it.  Anyway he was an awesome guy. 

Other comments: we had amazing weather (I have a great tanline where my watch is).  And I thought The Rockerfeller (did I spell that right?  I think I'm confusing it with The Rockafella Skank...did I spell that right?) was a bit rubbish.  Just a shopping centre.  And we didn't go up to see the view because it was very expensive.

Oh and to anyone who wants to go to galleries, they pretty much all close on Mondays.  D'oh.

So it's over.  And my blogging hasn't been the most regular, sorry! 

The night before last we were at Cafe Vivaldi in New York.  Some amazing songwriters there.  Like Mary Jennings (hope I got that right).  And Julie Kathryn.  If you are ever in the area go there just to listen to what the people are playing.  Because it's a busy night the earlier numbers (you pick from a hat) get to play 2 songs (or I read a 10 min story - WMHS again) and then when time gets short people can only play one.  I wished we could have hung out there all day and people could have played more.

Hmm, I've forgotten what I've covered already.  I'll end this one and check.