THIS IS THE BABY AREA!!

Get this – I’m sat in the junior library in Mansfield. Now, I have no problem with kids, get on quite well with them generally, couldn’t eat a whole one etc etc, but junior librarianship has never been my bag, and now I’m in a junior library, wondering what the etiquette is when a small, waif-like child is lobbing toys around and risking the lives of all and sundry. And I’m doing story-time at Mansfield Woodhouse on Tuesday, equipped with the biggest books I can find, so that they can be used as weapons should the need arise.

It’s utter chaos in here – computers are full of little stickies, lots of books needing to be issued (which is cool), noise and rows and parents going “will you stop SHOUTING,” and stamping their feet. I suppose this is just another normal day in a children’s library, which is precisely why I don’t do many of them

A long time since I tapped on the blog – well, I have been busy and whatnot, new job, Libby’s had exams. However, I think the major reason is that we’ve been taking time out just to have fun, just to chill and do what we used to do, before we’d built up a reputation. Oh! The horrors of fame! So the Pisco vibe is still ebbing about, seeing where it lies in the firmament. I’d like to be doing pop tunes with lots of words in them, with orchestrated pianos and splashes of noise. I think Andy’s desperate for less words and more grooves, while Ed’s veering between lots of noise, and lots of beats. But, y’know, it all works out in the end. Maybe one day we’ll decide that we all want such different things that we sack each other, only to hire ourselves again as backing musicians. But the jamming! Like Bob Marley’s favourite doughnut, its sweet man. I think I prefer a good jam to anything else these days, which is odd ‘cos when we started I couldn’t jam for toffee.

I must admit a slight frustration at the moment though – something tapping on the inside of my musical mind, something I need to do, but I don’t know what though. It’s probably not a Pisco thing – the downside of our strength in democracy is that sometimes I feel like (we feel like) I’m missing something, not quite fulfilling the specific music need that I have. It’s when I feel like this that I envy singer/songwriters like Dave. However, I’m not a prolific nor good enough songwriter to get away with it…. and besides, I want to be Steely Dan deep down and it’s hard to get those Dm6-9 chords sounding true when you’ve only got a six string. Not to worry – I’m in the best band I know, so that’s do for now. Anyway, back to the children…

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