I’m back in Bangor visiting my mum for a few days. Having left the grey drizzle of late July in London, it is a bit of a delight to have landed in Northern Ireland when it is as beautiful and sunny as it is right now. Last night I walked around the sea path to Crawfordsburn beach, bringing back many memories of such walks with friends back in the day. It’s picture perfect coastline round there.
It’s been a fun week. Last Wednesday I hooked up with my friend Leo Abrahams to work on the track for Boris Grebenshchikov. I had two production routes for it, and we developed both to the point where I could leave the studio and complete them. Production is such a crazy beast – you can really take a track anywhere you want, as long as you build around its soul. In Boris’s case it’s so easy as it’s all about his characterful voice. Now we are just going to wait for him to come to London and present the two approaches to the track. Hopefully he’ll be excited, and if all goes according to plan, a bit shocked.
My son finished primary school on Friday. Can’t believe it’s over already. The teachers of the school all gathered up at The Dulwich Woodhouse pub for an end-of-year drink, and with our favourite ever teacher leaving this year, everyone was a bit of an emotional wreck by the close of play. I headed into town to do a photo shoot with Matt Rudd, as a model for his latest experiments with coloured dots – I’m helping him build software to create these works and we’ve been loving doing it. Some examples on his website or Instagram.
Now the dentist. It’s my cousin. He’s going to give me dog’s abuse so I’m preparing myself psychologically.