In the post today came a copy of Matthew Gelbart's extremely interesting new book - to my shame I hadn't even realised it existed until John Butt told me about it a couple of weeks ago. So this morning I lay in the hammock in the shade of the plum tree and opened it, to find on the acknowledgments page that Matthew thanks me for 'stimulating conversation'! I wonder what it was about. Anyway, it's a fascinating read which got me thinking in all kinds of directions. There's just a chance of a Vortex 3 gig in Boston before the year is out, so I wonder if we'll have the chance to continue the conversation then.

My favourite listening of the week was 'Body Crash' by Buy Now.