It's a week since my last post and I'm still feeling OK. I've played three shows since I saw the specialist and am suffering no ill effects.
I'm wrapping up like a racehorse after each show finishes. The warm weather and hot lights mean that I'm sweating profusely when I go out into the cool night air. Luckily I was presented with a tour jacket that does the job admirably. I'm able to cool down slowly as I sit in the cab listening to the others loading the gear into the van.
We're having a few days off before we start again this weekend with shows on the Isle of Wight and at the Americana Festival at Newark on Saturday.
Next week we head north for a couple of shows before attending a festival in Welshpool. The week after that I have an appointment to see the specialist on the Monday and then I'm due to head north for a few days, then on to Scotland, Wolverhampton and Norwich on consecutive days.
After that there's a couple of days off before the final flurry of shows.
I've said it before but I'm really enjoying this tour. It gives me a chance to do something positive, to entertain others and also to express myself and be creative. I'm enjoying the company of friends and the warm weather. I'm enjoying the travelling and the countryside.
This is much better than staying at home.
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- "The Stars my Destination" by Alfred Bester was published in 1956, so it stands as the last of the pre space-age sci-fi novels. The hero is Gully Foyle and he is a man on a mission. He is out to exact retribution to the occupants of a space liner who ignored his distress signals and left him to die in deep space. It's a brilliant epic story, and is Bester's best novel by far. Neil Gaiman writes in the forward that it stakes a claim to be the first cyberpunk novel, albeit thirty years before the genre was established. I've read it at least four times in the last forty years, and I can highly recommend it. 10/10.
- "Stand on Zanzibar" by John Brunner. First published in 1968. This is a stunning book, written in the 1960s but set at the turn of the 21st century. The title refers to the fact that if every person alive was given a space 2ft by 1ft, they would all fit on the island of Zanzibar. By the time the novel ends, they have overflowed the island and are standing in the water. It deals with the pressures of conflicting world ideologies, overpopulation, how advertising and propaganda can shape our worldview, and features a character called Chad C Mulligan, a socioligist who was so appalled at mankind that he just dropped out. But not before publishing a book called "The Hipcrime Vocab" which was duly banned by the authorities. Brunner predicts legalised recreational drug use, intelligent computers, politics by assassination, and a state of war between conflicting ideologies. And spontaneous riotings and "muckers"- people who just go beserk and run amuck, killing as many people as possible. Spooky. 10/10
- "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. First published 1957. Over 10 years in writing, this is a stunning read. Set in the near future (from a 50s viewpoint), it sets out what inevitably happens when socialism is allowed full rein. Eerily prescient. 10/10.
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