sorry!

Sorry folks, I haven't been keeping up to date with my blog and after all, that's what a blog's for, so I better pull my socks up a bit, otherwise I'll lose you to some other singer and we can't have that now, can we? Like john Stewart Mill I'm a great favourite of the long sentence.! So what's my news? Well the recordings are on hold until Mick's available again.

Earlier this week I was interviewed for the Trawler.It's a local"serious" magazine with great editorial and reviews, published by members of the local literary scene and i was very pleased to do it.I'll be putting the interview on the web somewhere for you to read at a further date.I was asked to provide some quotes and cuttings for reference here's my favourite," her voice is like the sound of a lonely seabird echoing across an industrial estuary"...mmmm...interesting!
love clairexxx back soon!

Today

The session with Mick last week went very well.We laid down the backing tracks of the three songs I'm recording with him.Mick has been helping me re-arrange them,putting extra choruses into the songs etc.It all sounds pretty good.This week he'll be filling out the tracks a little with percussion, bass, piano etc. and later I'll put on some backing vocals and re-do the lead vocal.

Today I'll be seeing the printer about the cover for "Stage Door Johnnies"..I hope you realise that they're bootlegs! It's true,I had to bootleg my own album! Unfortunately the masters were lost many years ago.I tried to get in touch with Ray(Davies) but he's a hard person to reach. Recently I heard him on the radio but I didn't have the heart to ring the BBC and hassle him!He'll always be a great guy no matter what. I still live in hope that they will be found languishing in some dusty lawyers office but as time goes by that seems increasingly unlikely.I'm sure Ray has no idea where they are.Never mind,the songs and the sentiments within them live on. It's Stage Door Johnnies that has the first recording of "you take my breath away".My version is different to Eva's.She must've heard the recording by Tuck and Patti which is more jazzy.
love
clairexxx
ps hello to Jeff and Brian...I'll be putting some different tracks up soon on myspace