It's about time

So sang Juliana Hatfield and Evan Dando way back in 1994.

A lot has happened since the last Primate Notions (I haven't really got my head round the concept of writing down what happens in my life and around me - who is it actually for anyway? Me as some kind of primal therapy, or the rest of the world to know what is going on inside my head and world?), and I am pretty sure that nobody gives a toss.  The Factory management board is one fewer, my tribute to AHW is elsewhere on this site. Various acrimonious posts on MySpace indicated that New Order (or at least Hooky) had decided to call it a day. The day was Monday, the air was Blue. Digital (not by way of tribute, I hasten to add) also decided that enough was enough. Our relationships with the erstwhile keyboard player had deteriorated to the extent that it had stopped being fun. It had never been a moneyspinner, it was always about doing something we enjoyed doing, and as long as a few people enjoyed it too then it was worthwhile. When you get 25% of the partnership wanting to put up brick walls at every turn and refusing to cooperate or participate with anything, there's not a lot you can do in terms of making it enjoyable again, so we did what we thought was right at the time, and took an indefinite break. I'm sure that Jon and Jim won't be lost to the world of music, I certainly won't be.

I've been working fairly inconsistently for the last couple of months on writing and recording solo material (while trying to renovate my house at the same time), it's getting there. Home studio has been fine for guitars, I'm going to do the vocals in a professional studio, and then the multitracks will be handed over to various people on here to do their magic and see what they can come up with. I know what I want the songs to sound like, it will be fascinating to hear how other people interpret the sounds.