I won't go (just one more)

howard has been playing the nylon strung guitar that horsemouth left round his (with a capo on the 4th fret). he’s produced two fragments (one finger-picked in 3s the other strummed and in 4s) with the same vocal refrain. horsemouth suggests making a  collage of them together rather than re-recording them or through composing it. it/ they will go nicely with (the incredible) string bandish one (also a recent howard production).

yesterday (day) horsemouth did some reading (he finished off american overdose) and went for a wander round the green (nothing to report). later he went out for beers with howard. the murder mile was rammed so they adjourned to a pub round the corner (horsemouth remembers venturing in there with tim and darsavini once when it was a black pub with old dudes playing reggae 7s, howard remembers being in there and downstairs for music nights with an ex). now it is a pleasant IPA and food serving kind of place, spacious and clean and kind of striped of interest (it could be anywhere).

horsemouth was being a little careful (after the mari lwyd drinking debacle of the weekend before) but by the end (two and half pints) he’d warmed up and would gladly have had one more (but you know that’s how it starts horsemouth just one more). it used to be said of horsemouth (in his previous incarnation) that he was a kind of gremlin who shouldn’t be fed beer after midnight but now the dangerous point would seem to be the transition between afternoon and evening.

they’ll be able to take a look at the music stuff over howard’s half term in four weeks time but they’re not going to be able to get everything completed on musicians of bremen volume four (or whatever it ends up being called) until the summer.

horsemouth has spent some time (with the help of ian robertson) identifying the records in the incredible string band/ something in the air clip. the first record in the pile is  blind faith - blind faith. but the first one we see is jethro tull - this was (horsemouth had to look this up online), then a record by the bonzo dog band (this was the one he needed ian's help with), the rest, kevin ayers - joy of a toy, gong - camembert electrique, the byrds - sweetheart of the rodeo, mc5 - kick out the jams, and syd barrett - the madcap laughs, he recognised easily.