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Yaaaawwwnn.. *stretch, scratch* .. It's a beautiful sunny day here in the heart of the Thames Valley, workers from Slough all the way to Newbury are rueing the decision not to call in sick so they could watch the last day of what has been a magnificent Test match, including myself. I can feel a nasty cough coming on any minute now.. The Aussies have played well, the England team have played well - tho neither side has been on top form - and that's all any true sports fan has wanted, a tough, gritty battle for supremacy, not some poor, one-sided contest like the last 5 Ashes series! Let's hope the Aussies can run the final day close, if Hayden starts seeing the ball big he could rattle up a big score, but I hope it doesn't come down to 2 runs like the last one.. Not sure if I could stand the tension! There was a great article in one of the Sunday papers saying how the whole crowd applauded Shane Warne when he took his 600 wicket, how that would never happen in football, etc. if Van Nistelrooy scored his 100th premiership goal in an away game at Arsenal, he'd just get booed, etc. Not that football is likely to change in that respect (more's the pity), but it was nice to read of the Corinthian attitude of the Old Trafford cricket crowd, etc.

Had a good recording sesh up at Ant Farm studios Sat morning. Went out for a few drinks in the East End (a club called 93 Feet East, to be precise - well impressed) on Fri, crashed at Dancin' Danny G's studio floor and set about finishing some tracks once we were up and awake! Red Antennae are definitely changing our name to Fitzroy, as Red Antennae is actually the name of the label/stable that Dan looks after, so we just wanted to get a bit of distinction between the label and the band. Anyway, the CD we finished still needs a bit of mixing down and post-production but essentially it's great. I'm hoping to get them up on Arkade.com as soon as they've been completely polished off (at the moment one of the tracks has the loudest bass I've ever heard, nearly blew the speakers in my car.. Kinda cool in it's own right but perhaps not ideal?).

Fringe festival is only 5 days away now.. Have started distributing the programmes, even tho the printers seem to have taken a pretty "avante-garde" approach to doing what we asked for. Am trying to resolve issues, nothing serious (I hope) but nonetheless its our responsibility to clear them up.

Müf rehersal tonight, need to nail the last of the new songs we've written so we can play it at the 3B's next week. Am still praying for lyrical inspiration to fall out of the sky..