Abagail Grey

Right music wrong place

The music built, horns came in, strings layered, there were kettle drums mixed with electric guitars, a barely audible piano part making everything fat. The snare gave it a feeling of war and regiment whilst the strings soared above like a beautiful bird or a colourful waterfall, a fast flowing river, a bombastic dramatic chase as verbose as the language I’m using to describe it. It gushed with human emotion, brimming with passion, beauty and careful thought.

I’m listening to this and sitting in Starbucks, I look out of the window and see a row of generic bland shops. All around faces are blank, lost looking, bored, pensive.  I say to the guy behind the coffee counter 'what's the music?' and without looking up he say's 'I have no idea' then he turns away.

No love.....

See Abagail Grey co-headline at Summerfest, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 30th June

Dark Wood EP will be out 30th August. More information soon. 

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Unrequited love….

 

A conversation between a woman and a man leaning over a mobile phone:

‘Is that your new girlfriend?’

‘Yes’

Pause…..

‘She looks like a horse…….and not in a good way’

This translates as

‘She’s beautiful but odd, I’m outraged that you find her attractive, I’m clearly more attractive. Dump her and go out with me, you know it’s the right thing to do!!’

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Imagination Teleportation

He turned to me and said ‘let’s close our eyes and count to ten…. And then when we open them we’ll be in a different world’

So I held his hand closed my eyes and listened as he counted to ten, and when I opened my eyes I was in a different world and things were very beautiful and bright. 

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Sun, Sand and the Cold North Sea.

The water was almost still, rippling slightly, no wind.

Gently the sun worked its way through the morning mist which had cloaked the opposite coast. Wild things rustled in a calm way, I imagined insects yawning, stretching, and taking it easy. Usually we are fighting the elements, but not yesterday, the sun was determined to win and to shine. Some moments are truely beautiful and as we took tentative steps into the cold North Sea troubles faded and everything softened.

Here is a picture: Rosemarkie Beach, 8am, with Oscar, Emily and Cameron

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Face from the past

Standing in a foyer I saw a face I recognised but couldn’t place. He looked at me and I looked at him, puzzled.

Later we both attended an event – please read here for details - bad music industry experience.

By coincidence we were sitting next to each other at said event. I kept thinking ‘I know his face and it gives me a bad feeling’.

Later that day we crossed paths. It was cold outside, I was on a downer and was heading to a café to comfort myself with custard and cake. I said ‘I know your face’ he said ‘I know your face’ I said ‘Where did you go to school?’….I can’t remember his reply, it wasn’t relevant. We continued to think of possibilities. Then I remembered, he had been the piper on the ship (another story) - and I thought 'I don’t like you now and I didn't like you then, but good on you piper man – I may find you mildly offensive but at least you’ve got guts’.

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Facebook loathing

Here’s the thing. Social networking is false. Chirpy facebook posts, public conversations, fighting for attention, so much noise, so little substance. Humour like a dull thud on a cold morning. And if you don’t like someone then it’s very easy to ignore them. No consequences, no sad faces - and ok, it’s alright, but it’s not great – a depersonalised hiding place, the longer we hide the lonelier we become.

Every human emotion reduced, trivialised and dulled.

Yet here I am, starring at the screen, waiting for replies, writing my blog……needing a hug…….as you can probably tell, my mood is not great……….sometimes this place is ok for me, but just not today.

 

The benefits of custard

Life used to be complex. Big chunks of time devoted to thinking about people and things which now, after just a few years, hold no meaning.  Lovers lost, items misplaced, friends forgotten, wasted thought, angst for nothing.

And now……….well………now I have custard.

A simple pleasure: reliable, inexpensive and always amazing. It’s yellow like the sun, velvety smooth, and as sweet as chocolate ice cream.

Ahhhhh, custard…..you are a daily salvation.

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Unopened Mail

So much happening….

Abagail Grey USA  - the band is born, amazing line up, can’t wait to start rehearsals, very exciting indeed (although I’ll miss Ali and Derek)…..more soon, but I’ll say this…..can’t wait for Summerfest!!

This weekend Dark Wood will screen at the Loch Ness Film Festival.

There is more….I’ve stopped opening my mail…a deep evasion of responsibility.

Tomorrow I will face those demonic brown envelopes with fearless stoicism.

I will not be beaten by the severity of their collective façades – after all – it’s only paper, how bad can it be?

 

 

Bored? mmm.....streak!

Two people working in a call centre – eyes meet through the boredom, and, within a fraction of a second, attraction is born.

Passion and humour dance in their eyes. Suddenly they have a reason to go to work, to get up in the morning, to live.

Time passes and their relationship grows until mutually they agree to say goodbye to the call centre and say hello to dreams and aspirations.

Being people of creativity and laughter they decide that merely handing in notice would be dull in memory.

So, on the day of departure they meet in a cleaning cupboard and take off all their clothes.

Then……1,2,3……they burst from the cupboard and run giggling through the extensive open plan call centre as one hundred  faces look on in amazement. They exit the building still completely naked and are immediately arrested and charged with indecent exposure.

Later they marry and live harmoniously, happily ever after………….

The end.

 

More Kazoo and dog with bobbing head......

I meant to include these two pictures in my Kazoo blog from yesterday:

I don't know who to credit for this..........

Dog with bobbing head:

Again not sure who to credit......

Are these two pictures connected?  

Most definetely............isn't it odvious?