Apologies in Advance

Subheading: Substandard Substack

Hello.

Thank you for all your moving reactions to Thank You.

If you haven’t listened yet, or want to listen again, click this way…

Zoo-Piano by Milo.

I’ll be honest, I’m in a bit of a fluster. This is going to be a substandard substack. With 10 or so days left until the Joni Mitchell tribute I’m curating at The Roundhouse my mind is spinning with tech specs and running orders and choir rehearsals and so many details and people and emails and I should probably practice too. And what the hell am I going to wear when everything I try to order from Vinted arrives too tiny or too huge.

Also the world. Is just a bit too much isn’t it. Sometimes it feels important to go on, to write, to make music, to share it, to keep spirits up, despite the escalating tragedies with no end. Other times everything seems so completely trivial in face of everything else. Like does anyone really need to read my earnest studio diary from this very day 10 years ago when I was recording my album The Onion in Brooklyn and there was a huge summer storm and we put a mic to the window to record the thunder and rain? Nah.

For this cop-out April newsletter I will leave the music to Milo. And I’ll be back in May, with a full report on the importance of coming together to sing Joni Mitchell songs, especially when you’re reading the news and it sure looks bad, they won’t give peace a chance, that was just a dream some of us had…

Duplo-Guitar by Milo.

Milo-Guitar by Milo.