Well, today I finally ran out of work avoidance strategies, and starting learning the music for this week. Some such strategies were legitimate (a family outing to Finlaystone in the glorious sunshine; watching Dick & Dom on telly), others were less so (hoovering the car, putting my copy of Ivor Cutler's scandalously out-of-print Privilege LP onto CD so that we can listen to it in transit). I just checked Amazon to see if Privilege was still available, and found that Decca are at along last going to re-issue his 1959-61 recordings in April. About time too.

Talking about dusting recordings off the shelf, at one point today I had to resort to getting my copy of SADN out and listening to it, to remind me what to play. By one of those strange coincidences, when we're back in Nenthorn on Friday, it will be two years to the day since we first went there and recorded the quartet bits of SADN in the dark.

Driving back from Finlaystone this afternoon I put the car radio on and heard myself laughing with Jamie. It was a fun interview to do but I'm not quite at ease listening to myself yet. You can hear it here for a week or so, our bit's about 12 minutes in. There's a couple of sneak previews of the Kellie disc in there too, which it was very interesting to hear squished to bits by Radio Scotland's compressor - the horns just about survived intact.

For the first time ever, we've had a few CD orders going missing before they get to us - if you're expecting a delivery and it hasn't come, drop an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we'll chase it up ASAP.