hmm. facebook has some news for horsemouth.
announcements and endings part I
'Paul, creating and editing notes will be unavailable after October 31. We know your posts are important, so any published notes will stay published on your timeline. However, any unpublished drafts will be deleted.'
the drafts can go. horsemouth can of course merely write his drivel on the front page of facebook (as a comment) or he can write from exile from the sunny land of blogspot (where he has been archiving his kipple for a number of years already).
of course this reminds horsemouth of the myspace blogpost dieback of 2013. when all of a sudden myspace died (after a brief spell as my______) taking 6 years of horsemouth’s blogging with it. after remonstration myspace emailed the complainants their blogs. thank you myspace decently handled. you have my thanks. you will be fond in my memories.
facebook however, continues to be more problematic. (it's evil horsemouth. just admit it)
the change to new facebook about a month ago marked a radical limitation of your ability to access your historical material - wheras before your could nip back to 2010 month by month to look at what you were posting then now all you can get a access to is a list of your blog posts going back only as far as your connection permits (probably about a year). a change sprung with no consultation.
if facebook disappear even that button all that will be left is scrolling back through your timeline to find your posts. it is ok facebook. (though if you are reading this facebook the offer of a text document containing all horsemouth’s blog posts (similar to the offer made by myspace) would be nice).
horsemouth is a philosophical mule. the main benefit to him of writing the diary entries (let’s at least be honest about that - it is a diary) occurs when he writes it (the reading and re-reading it later and much later are added bonuses). he can always write more of it.
for a while horsemouth has been having to go through a fair old palaver to post - over to the notes page (found from a scroll down list on the homepage), click write new post etc.
horsemouth wonders if he shouldn’t instead get into physically writing (pen and ink) a physical diary again. now horsemouth keeps various work diaries (before he worked - during the great unemployment - he kept a rehearsal diary of his band bush house). indeed he has a box of such diaries going back the best part of 20 years. but they are paltry things, doodles, times and initials, commonplaces and quotations from whatever he happens to be reading at the time, the monthly list of films seen, distances walked. stuff horsemouth will brag about later.
horsemouth likes such pseudo-organisational workings.
announcements and endings part II
ladies and gentlemen ‘confiding in the evening star’ the final release from the musicians of bremen recording campaign 2019-2020 may not just be the final release from the musicians of bremen recording campaign 2019-2020. it may be the final release ever.
the reasons lie deep in the psyche of howard and horsemouth. howard is a put-the-show-on-right-here type guy, a downsize and out, abrupt ending kind of guy, horsemouth is a rehearsals, archive and continuity type guy. but essentially with howard’s new job as head of art (and his need to move because he is getting evicted), he doesn’t have time for it. plus he has other plans.
really the best person to ask about howard’s motivations is howard.
similarly for horsemouth the coronavirus epidemic has meant that he hasn’t been very keen to go down howard’s to rehearse or play web gigs and of course it has utterly wiped out the possibility of playing live gigs.
horsemouth would gladly stick the toys back in the cupboard until next year (it’s where they were going anyway) and then resume if there is anything to be done. it won’t be the first time musicians of bremen has ended. horsemouth has done solo gigs (and gigs with guest spots) as musicians of bremen, the musician of bremen and so on. he has also played duo gigs with howard (sometimes adding an additional musician - nick doyne-ditmas for example down at water into beer).
the horsemouth/ howard duo line up has been one of the best working set-ups horsemouth has ever had with another musician and has generated some of horsemouth’s best work ever.
howard will return with a series of releases of his electronica from the 2000s towards the end of the year. horsemouth is off to make a movie, then he will be woodshedding to consolidate a repertoire for his eventual live re-appearance and initiating/ re-committing to some other projects. there was a promise made to record lou at some point (that may still happen).
of course musicians of bremen is kind of like spartacus - in that all the rebels are spartacus, in that all farm animals seeking something better than death (via a career in the music industry in bremen despite the handicap of their utter lack of talent) are musicians of bremen.
horsemouth (canny mule that he is) is moving into franchising. as to part III - horsemouth can’t say yet.
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