2008

2008 will be another year of activity musically. Having finished my (short) book, "Victim of Dreams", it's time to turn myself back to creating as Datawhore and working with collaborators such as Superczar. Although the scale at which I work is now smaller, it's important to me to remain creative and do as much as I can to turn out good work. Amongst the releases next year will be a 7" single on Perpetrator Records of New Zealand, with a beautiful cover by Welsh shutterbug Tyron Francis (below). There's two solo albums due, one a limited edition, and if I can arrange it several live Barracudas albums for iTunes. I foresee a half-dozen trax with Michael Dent that I can filter onto a new iTunes Datawhore album, too. There's more, like "King and Country", just knocked right out for The Beautiful Music. 2007 had some highlights; the inclusion of "His Last Summer" on EMI's power pop compilation "Burning Sounds" for example and the release on iTunes of four Datawhore albums was a long overdue coup. It's been good to make new contacts and friends on Myspace and latterly Facebook, renewed connections with Canada welcome and to be carried over into the new year. More possibilities are around, but details are not good magic before time. It's been a better year, for which I can thank luck, Kate and legal drugs. I'm not dead yet.