Well, it has been a MAD YEAR (!) or so for Glatze and Mr.Underwood. I have achieved so much of what I set out to in terms of playing live, doing some great compositional work, getting my tunes released and working on building some mad bits of music kit! Now though, it’s time to go back into the studio/shed for a while. I have five main aims in doing this:

1. Work on my Glatze set – I am pretty chuffed with the performance aspect now (which is the hardest part for me)…but musically I have so much more to give! My initial set was written in a bit of a rush and, whilst it has been refined over the year, it can be on another level if I devote some proper time to starting it over. The debut of my new set will be at my gig at The Portland Arms (Cambridge) in February 2010.
2. Work on my Stump EP – for release on The Centrifuge. Gonna be some overlap with my Glatze tunes here.
3. Work on the debut recording by GypScab – my latest collaboration, with the mighty Grinner, Drew and Seamus.
4. Work on the midi-octopus – to get it completed for gigs in 2010!
5. To sharpen my tools – more learning to sing and play guitar, drums & piano better

So, no more gigs, conferences, other major projects for me for the time being (other than those listed above). OK, so I admit if The Centrifuge come through with the big old gig in Oslo, or Capsule ask me to play at their one of their 10th birthday gigs, the answer will be YES…but broadly speaking I am on it! :)

Bye for now…*crawls back into his box*