'horsemouth just lost his temper again. he does so wish he didn't do that... he needs to learn to disinvest more...'
horsemouth found this post way back in october as a draft (probably later used) and has copied this chunk of it (because, sad to relate, it is still his state). he went out to offer to help and was told he shouldn't talk. he therefore stomped off in a righteous snit (returning only later to do the thing he was going to propose doing when his interlocutor was not around).
horsemouth looks forward to getting back to london for a bit. he spent much of september (3rd to the 24th) in london but didn't get much done during his visit. he will have spent 11 weeks up here on this cycle by the time it comes to go back.
horsemouth back in the great wen (but when?)
he's back on the 10th december (december - the last of the 'embers') for a week. (so in slightly less than two weeks). there's the lankum gig (with howard) on the 13th (john fromporto has just seen them up in guimaraes) and horsemouth will want to see various other people and do some book-shopping. he's looking forward to seeing people (he's getting a bit frustrated up in the hills).
there's an art exhibit he'd like to see. the michael werner gallery, london is presenting don van vliet's (captain beefheart's) paintings. it opened 22nd november and is on until 17th february.
he had a zoom chat with john (fromporto) in the afternoon (post snit) and is now slowly returning to normal. (whatever normal is).
thereafter (if things remain as they are currently planned) horsemouth returns to the countryside for the run up to christmas and new year. his brother (and his family) are over for christmas and then there is a chance joe (his brother's eldest) will be up in january (which would be good) but almost certainly not in the first week of 2024.
january 1st 2024 is a monday (such are the fruits of mathematics). this should help make the pattern of the year clearer.
horsmouth will now start writing his review of 2023.
it was a year of changes.
from 5th may he has basically been back at his mum's - dealing with his dad's diagnosis and treatment, dealing with his dad's death (july 19th) and cremation (august 19th), dealing with his mum's dog dying, putting effort into supporting his mum through all this. trying to keep the show on the road.
before that it was a year with only one gig by horsemouth - at max's book launch 18th april (from whence the photo at the top of this blog) thanks to max for booking him, everyone who listened and enza for taking some photos p.s. thanks to the beat-boxing dude too.
you know horsemouth had forgotten almost entirely about it such has been the nature of the year.
horsemouth did no recording (that he can recall right now). the stuff that he had worked on the year before (2022 see soundcloud) did not get finished and did not come out. he did no golden glow mixes. conversely howard released nothing in 2022 or 2023 that has remained available (if you downloaded it then you have it, if you didn't you missed your chance).
bandcamp has changed hands (and that may turn out to be significant).
he worked on some tunes of peter's and some tunes with CATASTRO/fille before may but has not managed anything thereafter. he played a few times, adam's bar-b-cue (saturday 24th june), jacqueline's birthday, perhaps up the park (who knows).
he went to see comparatively few gigs by other musicians this year. the owl service, united bible studies, belinda kempster and fran morter at the leigh folk festival stands out as a highlight (sunday 25th june), triple negative (11th january - triple negative, officine, angusraze at cafe OTO) also, mike's visit and their joint visit to the national liberal club also (though not a gig) , as it stands he plans to see lankum (13th december) and he guesses that will be his lot for the year. (that may well be it).
he tried to get the decarbonisation going but was defeated, or at least delayed, by events. he did at least get the communal endeavour to borrow money and to purchase more property. as usual everything takes much longer than you think it will and turns out much less well than you think it will. ho hum. anyway we should have a firm steer on all this by halfway through next year (and then on to the next bag of pox).
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