horsemouth's history (the humming)

today it's 7 years since musicians of bremen's first duo gig (at a benefit for the E15 mums - thanks ayesha) and it's two years since the release of the humming by them. it's all good - horsemouth doesn't have any particular celebration planned. 

well it's another beautiful morning (here in the sunny south east).

horsemouth doesn't seem to be sick yet (which is good). he's bought a couple of boxes of paracetamol in case. wait a minute he will go get the rest of the coffee. 

he is currently recalculating. 

there that's good. as horsemouth often says the mornings (when he gets to drink coffee and write his blogs) are his favourite bit of the day. he's been at this blogging lark on blogger since june 2013 - a few posts a month copied over from his notes on facebook, but in fact it goes further back than that to 24th november 2006 when horsemouth was blogging on myspace. 

before that horsemouth kept a physical diary (but it was really more of an appointments book). the earliest physical diary he still retains goes back to 1992 (a houseman's peace diary). 

darn it he's just finished the coffee.

the posts from myspace still exist (they very kindly sent him a zip file full of them when they folded up their blogging tool). the facebook notes from previous years are more difficult to access (but not impossible). the physical diaries you can only look at by appointment with horsemouth himself. 

the early diaries are mostly for band stuff for bush house/ boom clan active roughly 1990 to 1995. horsemouth was volunteering at an anti-nuclear group and living in squats in hackney. a little later there's a big kerfuffle in his life and he changes to the lifestyle you may know him better for now, he's working at beachside donkey rides, he's living in the communal endeavour, he's embarking on the second act of his musical life as horsemouthfolk, first with goatboy (duncan tangy) and later with howard (as musicians of bremen). this has sustained him for the last 25 years or so. 

a year ago horsemouth gets made redundant (but the housing and the musical endeavours continue).