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I really should take this blog down. It’s an embarrassment, just sitting here unused, but I just don’t have the drive to publish stuff here any more.

I’m on Twitter, obviously, and that scratches a similar itch to the one blogging used to. Plus I’ve been doing this for 13 years now, since before the word “blog” existed, and I think it may just be time to hang up the WordPress. The band site has a blog and I’ll post crap on there every now and then, but I think this site is pretty much done.

Cheers for coming, turn the light out when you go.

–c.

(I’ve said this a few times before, so I’ll probably be back in a few months once something gets under my skin again…)

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Anton Rodgers

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Vodafone can choke on my fuck.

As I mentioned back in April, I decided to fire O2 when my contract was up since they offered literally no incentive to stay with them despite having been a perfect loyal customer for 18 months. Oh, how I wish I could undo what I did. » Read the rest of this entry «

It happened again…

[14:14]  <earthman> my guitar teacher added me on facebook
[14:15]  <nick> you have a teacher?
[14:15]  <earthman> nick: I did when I was 15
[14:15]  <nick> I thought you just burst out of a granite cocoon, guitar in hand?
[14:15]  <earthman> LOLZ

–c.
PS. The guitar teacher in question is Mick Hutchinson, who is still awesome. He taught me for 18 months when I first started in December 1988, and without him I would not be the player I am now.

…quite. No posts (real ones) since April. I know.

Are you married? Do you know how much preparation goes into a church wedding with full reception afterwards? It’s a lot. And following that there was the honeymoon, and now of course I am back at work and life is returning gradually to normal, and I suddenly don’t have to spend every waking second thinking about the wedding.

So I’m using it to work on music for my second album. Yes, that’s right, a second Clive Murray album is slowly forming in the 1s and 0s of my hard drive. I don’t know exactly when it will be complete, or exactly how I am going to go about turning it into a real object for people to enjoy, but it will definitely happen at some stage, so stay (loosely) tuned.

I am aware that I only got halfway through my countdown of my top 100 albums of 2000-2009, and this will be resumed shortly.

And finally, through a chance occurrence on Twitter, this afternoon I played Dave Gorman at table-tennis. I won 21-17, and he is a thoroughly nice chap, as you might expect if you know his work or listen to his radio show. Thanks for that Dave, if you fancy a rematch at darts, I’m happy to accept that challenge, though I appreciate you’re busy and I won’t hold my breath.

Cheers all, and thanks for waiting,
–c.

Yes I know.

I’m a bit busy what with getting married and all that.

Yes, married. 36 hours from now, in fact.

Yes. Really.

–c.

This shit has gone on far too long enough by half.

Please can it be arranged that I spend the majority of my days playing guitar, writing music and drinking coffee? I mean… really?

Thanks, much appreciated,
Clive.

This exchange happened this morning on the #ukmg IRC channel:

[10:32] <earthman> I love my mondeo
[10:32] <earthman> mind you, it’s the V6
[10:32] <nick> you have a car?
[10:32] <earthman> aye
[10:32] <nick> I thought you went everywhere in a huge black chariot, pulled by dragons?

I wish!
–c.