{"id":4720,"date":"2011-03-26T19:05:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4720"},"modified":"2011-03-27T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T13:05:09","slug":"and-with-the-weekend-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4720","title":{"rendered":"And with the weekend comes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Fug, fuzziness and a brain made of cotton-wool.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up this morning &#8211; Saturday &#8211; with a really sore bum.<\/p>\n<p>What the hell was going on behind my back in my sleep?<\/p>\n<p>No, I don&#8217;t know either.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to a gig again tonight.<\/p>\n<p>This&#8217;ll be only our second gig\u00a0in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Must be getting old or something.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s gig is a four-band session and an Album launch.<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the bill: the awe-inspiring\u00a0&#8216;Fine Lines&#8217; will be given its\u00a0live debut\u00a0by Oxfordshire-based The Rock of Travolta.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken the band eight\u00a0years to get the album to this point.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to get my head around a group of five musicians taking\u00a0eight years of effort, energy and enthusiasm &#8211; and their spare time! &#8211; to get the composition and performance of a work sufficiently close to a place, where they&#8217;re finally satisfied enough to declare it as being finished.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a bit boggling.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know much about the three supporting bands on the bill, but <a title=\"Fine Lines review on This Reality Podcast\" href=\"http:\/\/thisrealitypodcast.com\/?p=1520\" target=\"_blank\">I wrote a review of Fine Lines<\/a> which might give you the teensiest clue about how much I like this work.<\/p>\n<p>So, going to tonight&#8217;s gig won&#8217;t be a pain.<\/p>\n<p>But getting up in the morning?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s going to be awful.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;ve been shopping, and a supply of after-gig crumpets have been laid in.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I&#8217;m just too rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll for description, eh?<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s the first F1 GP of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Another incentive to get out of bed with something like three hours of sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll go up to the yard tomorrow\u00a0to spend some quality time being abused by the girls.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first time in weeks I will have had the space to get up there.<\/p>\n<p>This reinforces how right it was to find Tom another home &#8211; a working home.<\/p>\n<p>It was right, but fuck me, it was difficult.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been gone weeks and I am still upset.<\/p>\n<p>But it was right.<\/p>\n<p>Pauses to put trainers on, check my wallet and get ready for the gig&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t expect to get emotional.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I&#8217;m just a bit of a girl.<\/p>\n<p>Right, time to go and listen to three rounds of Death Metal before we get to the crowning peak of musical excellence that are, <a title=\"The Rock of Travolta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.therockoftravolta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Rock of Travolta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Laterz, dudez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Fug, fuzziness and a brain made of cotton-wool. 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