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Went to watch Autechre in Hamburg on Wednesday, as we were walking across the city, which is a fairly cool place as it happens, we spotted this evil looking old Nazi bunker. It turned out the gig was inside it which made the show pretty amazing, from what I can remember.

Sweeping statement time, Germans from Hamburg are very serious, I was told three times to please stop talking.

And just briefly, we found a brilliant little punk/metal bar across the road from the Nazi bunker with a bar football table and cheap beers and they we playing Slint records. Unfortunately we had to leave pretty sharpish because there was an angry Welshman in our party who wanted to fight everybody.

Shooting a gig tonight at the Moon and Sixpence in Glossop. Hopefully the first of a handful of promo-vids for local good-looking-talented-young-twats Rook and the Ravens. I’ve been meaning to get round to shooting something with them for ages, get yourself down to the Moon this evening if you fancy some acoustic Rookery, it should be off tha heezy yo.

It’s day 5 of http://acousticprogress.com, the traffic is already shaping up, the site ranks 1st on GSERP for my chosen keywords and I’m feeling pretty enthusiastic about the whole project. I’m more than a little concerned that I’ll run out of ideas before the year is up but that’s really what this project is about, finding new ideas and exploring other ways of approaching the acoustic guitar, to test myself and to keep the musical grey matter churning.

If you have any requests about what kind of thing you’d like to see me play then get in touch, I could even write a little ditty for your wedding/funeral/cats birthday.

Other than that, if you are following the project  I’d appreciate you getting in touch to offer a little encouragement now and then, this will help keep me from slowly buckling up into a tight ball of paranoid misery, choking on the Black Bile of my own self loathing and ashamed of myself that I thought for one second anybody would be interested in my shitty, and frankly pathetic, piss-poor project. See?! Do you see now why you must contact me right away? Drop me an e-mail to paul.higham@gmail.com, follow @acousticguru or @paulhigham on twitter or leave a reply/send me a picture right here on tumblr. Byefornow.

I’m currently working on a live DVD of the Red Hot Cotton show that took place at the Stockport Plaza theatre on March 20th. It features a whole raft of award winning barbershop acts and was a rather splendid evening for fans and singers of barbershop alike. Preview clips will be available here as soon as I’ve finished editing.

Taking a breather from Facebook for a while, e-mail is always a safe option if you need to contact me quickly or give me a call on 07872 968 125.

5D2 Firmware 2.0.3 is here

Hooray! Just in time for my first job tomorrow!

http://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/firm-e/eos5dmk2/firmware.html

Listened to Oversteps for the first time this evening and it’s farkin’ brilliant, I don’t usually instantly fall in love with an Autechre release but this one is pushing all my buttons. I’m going watching them in April in Hamburg and then again a couple of nights after in Amsterdam, for my birthday innit.

Snapped this guy on the bus in Central London on Friday, in my mind I’m pretending it’s Cornelius.

Shot some test footage for the Slave Called Shiver promo today, it’s turning into a bit of a nightmare and I just want a huge baseball bat of inspiration to crack me across the ankles.

I shot a very rough lip-sync with Alice who’s playing Alicia or is at least proposed to. I’m hoping the whole thing is just going to come together this week, all my plans seem to fall on their backside. I don’t mean to sound so down about it, i just want something to jump out at me. All my venue requests have been turned down, I’ve contacted several commercial property letting agents today and they’ve all given me a big fat no on ‘indemnity grounds’. Frustrating. Ah well, onward.

Sarcastic online form filling, now I really do feel like Sam Lowry.