photos by: Lichen Murray
a time of reflection and projection. peaceful and excited. most of this year has been walking new ground and the view has been most pleasing, if sometimes daunting. our return to the coach house was a worthy finish to our live performances for the year, a year with only a handful of shows. t'was an amazing few days... having played the coach house for years with a minimum of 2 opening acts, both of our scheduled openers cancelled days before the show. we also discovered the night before that a large percentage of our recent emails letting people know what we're up to - including our shows - have been returning unopened. add to an already thick plot a pea soup of a fog and a delightfully heavy rain. this was going to be one to remember. anyway, somehow a delightful crowd found out about the show and made the journey despite the weather. always remarkable in southern california. a comedy trio - the laugh pack - stepped in admirably at the eleventh hour to warm up the house, then it was we 3 for the rest of the evening. we ended up doing a couple of sets and a few unrehearsed acoustic tunes. i am truly enjoying the new sound and dynamic that dalbo, drew and i have evolved. and the reinvention of some of our oldest songs has them feeling entirely new. next year will see us venturing out more with the show. and we will each, brother hamish included, be developing other projects alone. perhaps a little alchemy will be delved in to ... i love that eighteen months ago i would not have imagined this past year anything like it has been. i am learning to take each day as it comes. so much easier that way. and a lot more fun. rare blessed rain falls gently outside here. for some of you, fierce storms fill the day. wherever you are ... lang mae yer lum reek. angus