Well… Yes. And Here We Go Again.

As has become annual now, I’ve gotten bored again and have been casting around like an idiot to see if there’s anything else besides bourbon that can keep my idiot little mind from chattering away like a team of ranger monkeys. All this blogging crap’s done the trick for some years now, taking over from actual – non-internet – music writing (I’m that old, yes) and before that, from scribbling reams and reams of crap into notebooks by hand. Usually, I just go away and get smashed for a month, and come back with another badly-executed version of what’s gone before, but I suspect I’m out of turns in that particular game. I have a horrid feeling I’m going to have to come up with something actually productive this time. Last year I came up with Off The Beaten Tracks which has kept me roundly amused for over a year now, and I’m not stopping doing that anytime soon, but I’ll need to find something else to do with this thing. The SXSW stuff’s been fun, but as the technology’s caught up, it’s just a pain in the arse now, if I’m honest, and even the major publications are starting to do more on it, muscling in on the amateurs. More power to them, but I can’t be bothered to compete with that. Call me lazy if you like, you’d be dead right.

So anyway, with less than six hours before my cab comes to get me to go to Austin, I’m going to finally push out the three remaining SXSW previews I wanted to do with Strait Laces, The Crookes and the absolutely dreamy Standard Fare. Even if only because I said I would, and they all put the time in to do it, and I haven’t gotten round to it, and I feel really bad about that, even if it was mainly due to the universe screwing around with me, and not just because I’m a lazy arse.

But once those three are out, that’s it, I’ve had it with blogging. I’m no good at it, if I’m honest, and that’s as good a reason as any to pack it in. I’ll think of some other way to publish crap on the internet, but just avoid the blog part as the focus. Hell, I don’t know.

Anyway, once I’m back from SXSW, I may or may not stick up some notes on what awesome bands I ran into (or more likely, a series of moans on what awesome bands I managed to miss but everyone else saw), and then I’ll close the doors here for a bit. I’ll be back in the summertime I reckon, so for anyone who cares, thanks for coming by, and emailing, and saying hello, and generally being kind, I’ve appreciated it. Thanks.