A room with a brew

Good evening. I was thinking I might try and assuage these non-specific, generic feelings underachievement by writing a blog for you.

I am staying in this Saturday night doing such satisfying tasks as hoovering. The satisfaction of the flawless floor is not to be sneezed at. This is not some sort of anti rock and roll, stay at home, protest. I felt a bit like going out this evening but Glasgow is horribly full of bouncing drunken football fans today and is best avoided.


Yesterday I was asked by my musical friend Victoria Bergsman to recommend her something to read which inadvertently triggered the old website-guilt. I’m sorry we’ve been a bit slack at updates but I promise that we will sort it out before the new album emerges. In case anyone is interested in what I came up with, and as some lame attempt at rectifying my bookish silence, I will list what I sent her at the end of this transmission. Before you go fumbling around for pens and paper, you could go and listen to the late-summer reggae sounds drifting from here myspace.com/takenbytreesmusic.

Cultural summary and Current Affairs: I have been watching the tv version of Brideshead Revisited and not finding time to go to the cinema to see the reportedly average film. I have been listening to Chariot Song by the Beep Seals. I read On Chesil Beach and it was sad. I was disappointed with the Guardian’s guide to the Piano and Keyboard which wasn’t very exciting at all. I did go and see I’ve Loved You So Long which was pretty beautiful. I have been listening to Richard Hawley’s recording of I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry made with Jools Holland. I have been remembering how much I enjoyed the documentary Young at Heart. I have been making walnut pesto.

We’re off on tour again next week. I think I am looking forward to it although I am nervous about playing a gig as close to my Kentish home-turf as I’m ever going to get. If you live in or near Canterbury, please come to the concert so my parents don’t think I’m unpopular. We’re all quite edgily excited about our first trip to Asia although we’re frightened of the humidity. There will be sweat.

We’ll have some news about the new album SOON I think. Be patient.

Take care
Carey xx




Maurice by E.M Forster
The Bandini Quartet by John Fante
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
And pretty much anything by Carson McCullers.