I was gone but now I'm back.
It's been 5 long months with many incredible experiences, some sad times, heavily outweighed by some good times. I've had an epiphany brought on by basically nothing, I've become world-weary coupled with a sense of renewed hope and optimism. I know more and less than I ever thought.

Now you may understand why it's been quiet around here.

First of all, I'm going to do a ridiculously quick recap of what's been happening the last few months.
Shuffle has been highly successful, if far from profitable. We've had (inhales)....

She Keeps Bees
Sixtoes
Erland and the Carnival
Tristram
Dear Reader
Hot Feet
Jamie N Commons
Liam Hayes & Plush
The Unrecorded

I have also launched a gay night with my promoting partner in crime. It went very well and we wont do another one.

I've also been to another Latitude festival, saw some amazing new bands that I think will have a big future (Kurran & the Wolfnotes), saw a few bands that have wanted to see for ages (65daysofstatic, tick) and saw an equal mix of impressive and disappointing acts (Grace Jones, pretty good, Phoenix - fail)

I also went to America for the first time and confirmed why I want to travel there. New York is stunning. It's a blatantly obvious sentence, one by someone who went for 1 week as a tourist and did touristy things. From all accounts however, it's a blast to live there and I cannot wait to go back. Highlights included the wettest day of a festival EVER, staying in the most stunning apartment, 24hour pizza and a constant rush of excitement and awe at everything that was around me. I'd also like to offer my public thanks to Chelsea and Ali for making us extremely welcome and showing us around, it was awesome.

In other happenings, a new hockey season is upon us with Caps doing well, if not stuttering every now and then. But still, the season is 82 games short and it's wonderful to have hockey back, it's a LONG summer without it.

Twitter has also become more and more important, not in a "is washing the dishes" kind of way, but in a "constantly discovering new music, news and other random bits and bobs kind of way".
For those of you that haven't, get on it. The social networking revolution can be used intelligently and ingeniously if you put in the smallest bit of time.

Finally, in the most recent of developments, I'm hopefullystarting to manage a band. This is new to me but something I really want to do and think I could be very good at. More news as things become more solid.


Lastly, I've never been afraid of using my blog for personal reasons, it is after all mine, with no ties to anybody or anything. I want to say a big thank you and a whole load of lovely things to Lauren. You've been amazing the last few months and hope that we've a long way to go yet. Each time we mess up, we seem to come back stronger and that fills me with hope. You're one in a million


Will return soon, with music and things.
In the meantime, you must must must listen to Kurran & the Wolfnotes and Charlie Winston. Expect big things from both of them, and I'll explain why soon.

It's good to be back