horsemouth has survived 2018 (palaces of gold)

horsemouth has survived 2018.

 achievements? 




horsemouth played a gig (to follow up on the four in 2017) and released an album with howard as musicians of bremen. he’s proud of it and has given tons away (he has even sold a few). he has another gig already in 2019. he feels a bit remorseful that he has not played more gigs to promote it - but the window to do a duo gig was very tight, he would need to be more organised to do this. he intends to be more organised. he did a little singing and playing in social situations (though not as much as he would have liked).

he thanks everyone who came to the gigs, listened to the cd or streamed the tracks or invited him out to play - thank you everyone.

he went to see a reasonable number of bands, read fewer books and watched poorer quality movies than in previous years (the curse of facebook).

he wrote this blog and the one over on facebook.

horsemouth worked and kept a roof over his head and payed the rent (mostly). indeed he kept up his efforts at the social endeavour - eventually these should lead to a (miniscule/ single figure) increase in social housing for single people in the seaside towns. woop-de-doo this is horsemouth’s happy face. 

horsemouth went on holiday (carrigaline, porto) and caught up with friends - he swam in the sea and sunbathed and walked about ‘exploring’. he visited his family back in the wilds of herefordshire more often.

he should probably mention that while he was back home this time he restrung the palma c-103n guitar again (after he found the bridge snapped off and he re-glued it last time) - he hasn't taken it up to full tension yet. he has read a bit, gone for walks on the common and down to the abbey (with his mum and the dog), climbed up garway hill (with the brother, his wife and their kids).

 downsides to the year?

... and of course he farted about excessively on facebook.

he didn’t get the extra work in (like he (didn’t) plan) to render his financial position more sustainable and resilient. he saw his friends less than he would have liked (but the september end to saturday/ sunday afternoons in the pub with howard will have saved him some money). the political situation continues to be shit - the people are reactionary shits we should elect another, that’s all horsemouth can say about it.



horsemouth is pleased to see that his dad has started on the peter ackroyd thames: sacred river (it will probably be more to his taste that the fintan o’toole heroic failure: brexit and the politics of pain).