Run Like Hell

I have to keep reminding myself that being paralysed by fear at the task ahead, is not helpful and a fantastic bit of imagination on my part. We need a house in Edinburgh, large enough for us to perform in, live in, we need to be able to safely accommodate 10-20 audience members and we will be 7 or so living there. We need permissions, licences to perform, we need good neighbours to negotiate our noise levels with them. We don't need to play loud late at night, our shows can be afternoon and early evening. So to move this thing ahead, all I need to do is a list of tasks...phone calls and conversations. I am not a criminal, I have done nothing wrong, I 'm not a sniveling idiot, I just need to talk to people, to ask people questions in order to find a house. Glad I'm understanding this. Being a frightened rabbit is uhelpful and a bit tiring!

The tides are turning

A lead, one with spirals of links to folks we know... A house in Edinburgh that has been a hypothetical music venue, run by people passionate about having a place to play live music on their own terms. Intimate. It has been asked to stop doing what it does by Edinburgh City Council..... I'll talk to people... Shut doors and tangents..keep talking Reilly , keep talking

10..9..8..7..6

The countdown , the deadline... 10 days before our funding application has to be in for financial support to get to Edinburgh. we travelled to Colchester yesterday for a meeting with the wonderful producer Kate Harvey...you remember Dinning With Alice, Walking.. she was one of the main folks making them happen, even if you don't like massive outdoor theatre...it's an amazing feat to have a job where you make fun things happen for pleasure and enjoyment of others....just a thought....so, the funding application.. a combination of hoop jumping and small boxes to make you really think about what you are actually trying to do! Reality strikes. Kate was good on advice... just to say that the people reading the applications have loads to read in a week, so use the return key to make lots a space between sentences... I like this simple advice. Also good on over-looked stuff like cost of licences for a non venue show. Still my biggest mountain is finding a house, with a wide frontdoor on pavement level.. where we can take over, make a noise and invite people in for two shows a day and live there.. I'm gonna telephone Edinburgh City Council.... wish me luck!

Edinburgh Klang Haus Hunt

We are looking for a Klang Haus in Edinburgh. For 8 of us to live there and perform there, twice a day, inviting an audience of 10-15 people in. We need to be able to make noise at certain times of day and to have good access to the building for all sorts of folks. A few rooms, lots of character, thick walls, in The Meadows area of Edinburgh, EH9 would be ideal.

The Road to Edinburgh

These next few weeks will be crucial in making a show in Edinburgh happen. I need to find a house for us to inhabit, in the city centre of Edinburgh. We want to live there and perform there everyday during August as part of the Fringe Festival. I need to ask for help. In order for people to understand what help we need, I will explain the show. The show is called Klang Haus a version of which we performed in our house during Norwich Sound and Vision. What is Klang Haus? Allow me to explain over the next few days. For now I will order my thoughts.

Achtung - Meat, Mash, Veg.

Whilst talking about the tea towel today, the story of it's design, by Leo of BK and Dad, revisited me. The CND symbol was inspired by a dreadful food experience during our Butcher Of Common Sense Residency in Berlin. Inspired by a meal purchased from the Bonjour Garage, adjacent to the Nalepastrasse Funkhaus, in deepest Eastern Berlin. The 'food' sat in a plastic container, divided into three, like a CND symbol, separating, meat, mash and veg. When Jon plopped a little of the meat from one section into the mash section, he coined the phrase, 'Dog shit in sand'.It was too cold in the room to laugh and it wasn't funny because that was the food for the evening. Not really... we laughed til we forgot we were hungry and ate currywurst with the Tacheles rats a few hours later. You can own your very own Achtung tea towel, it specialises in drying crockery and cutlery and doubles up as an emergency liquid spill absorber, can be used on face.

Butcher Resuscitation Miracle

In salute to the Butcher of Common Sense and the journey 9 of us took to Berlin, I am resuscitating images and sound files that lay buried, left out of the Butcher book, left off the album and vinyl, the left-overs... but oh how good they are to revisit... The Butcher's feast continues to feed our hunger.