What do think of the new digs? New Site looks pretty grand to me. I can brag about it of course, as I had almost nothing to do with it, given that I am essentially illiterate in the world of design and the visual arts in general. Check out some new stuff like Tosh (tells no) Tails when you get a chance. For a Basset/Beagle cross he sure does have a purebred take on things.
GBS Cast and Crew have been held up at Club One in St. Johns for the past eight days rehearsing for the new set and tour. We hope to perform 12 or 13 of the tunes from Fortune’s Favour, as well as some of the bonus tracks like Gallows Pole, and a few more fun covers as well. All hands should still get to hear many of the faves from the catalogue, but the new tunes should allow us to switch up the set quite a bit from night to night.
The plan is to do a promo tour in a few weeks around the launch of the CD and to spend most of the summer chasing festivals and special events, many of which are already posted online.
The honest to God Fortune’s Favour Tour per se will actually start in September and take us all over North America well into 2009. We hope to do a two set show again this time as it gets us more stage time to play the zillions of tunes we’d like to perform. Is that cool? I sure prefer it, myself.
You’ll note the word ‘vacation’ listed in the top line of this entry. As I type, I’m on an airplane with the fair one, brother Bern and his lady, as well as a couple of other friends. All hands are headed for a weeks respite before the GBS madness begins. I’ve become attached to my Google Calendar, you see. Like most online calendars, you can assign different colours to different calendars. You know, green for Alan events, blue for Family events, and bright red for GBS. The months remaining in 2008 and the first few of 2009 are a sea of red with not much green and hardly any blue. So we are heading for a week in the blue.
Really looking forward to it.
Only a few days till the new GBS Progeny is born onto the world making anxious parents of us all.
Cheers,
Alan