General Gossip
Where to start? In January’s news I omitted to mention that I had been taking part in a series of school talks about the music industry for Hi-Arts. This was great fun although the pupils were sometimes a little daunting…most of them were very cool.
I may well be doing something very similar in March, which will hopefully help some budding artistes on their way (or put them off- who knows?).

Now I know, I know, I have been fobbing you all off with tiny little missives the past few news shots so I am going to make up for it on this one…

This month I have been working seriously hard in my day job (the geology stuff) pulling all-nighters left right and centre and to be honest, ruining any sort of social life I may have had. I can only say I am quite glad I am single ‘cos no one would be able to put up with waking up in a bed full of books surrounded by 19 zillion cups of half drunk coffee in numerous states of growth, only to find me hunched over the laptop typing furiously away having left the tv on and the shower running…
While all this is going on, the roof is still leaking, songs are left incomplete and what’s worse…I have no idea who all these people are on The Bill anymore. Actually this is a good thing, it means I have finally broken the ‘watch any crap on telly and not shift all night’ phase of my development in single life.

I now have a dvd player thanks to Stuart Mitchell and have been watching High Fidelity on repeat for 3 weeks. I must buy some more dvds…

Musically I have been writing like it is going out of fashion although much of the songs have not been completed due to geology stuff. I managed to complete two for the Newcastle gig though…

Gigs Etc…Newcastle Opera House (Feb 21).
I decided not to do this gig with Blair due to time constraints on practising. Stuart and his friend Barry and I drove down to Newcastle on Friday morning. It was a glorious day (hangover aside) and we made good time.
Newcastle (well the bit I saw) was very cool and there were some great restaurants. Yours truly of course fulfilled her mandatory tour of eateries and eventually we had Tapas down the road from the Opera House and the next day further into town we had some Greek fayre.
When we got to the venue Dave ‘Squeaky’ Stewart (drummer and generally crazy dude) was there along with John Young (Singer, Songwriter and Keys man) and Andy Williamson (sound man extraordinaire). The rest turned up some time when I was out enjoying various culinary delights and were soundchecking when I got back.
Dave had asked about doing some rhythm on my set so I brought down my djembe for him to bang on (and very well he did too- even with me strumming in the unique McCafferty time).
The venue is totally cool btw spent a wee bit of time investigating…

Round about 8pm it was time for me to go on. I had decided to play standing up for a change (for the first time in years actually) and was more than a little nervous about messing it up. Short of blasting the mic a few times with some P’s and B’s it wasn’t too bad and the crowd seemed to really enjoy it and the new songs went down very well.

Website News
The website has been officially taken over by Grafixation. This will mean the site is updated on a regular basis with lots of yummy info on gigs and projects etc.

I’ve been reading through the site just to make sure all info is correct etc and realised that so much has changed since we started the online thing that we’ll have to do a revamp. For a start, the Q and A area- if someone asked me those questions now, many of the answers would have changed as I have found so many new artists to listen to and my circumstances are so different now. I will be looking for more questions soon so pile ‘em into the yahoo group or email me direct through the contact form on the site, which is now working and I’ll take a look…

The gallery will get an overhaul (including references to the photographer) and a new bio encompassing more of what’s been going on will be fabricated for your viewing pleasure.

A shop is well on the way to construction and will include NWTK tapes (running out now), the Radiaxial CD, the Jo! T shirt in Xtra Large, Large and Ladies (one size, fits a 14 down to an, albeit slightly baggy 8) and soon the official Games For One T-shirt artwork by Mark Wilkinson.

Nothing Whispered to Katy 10th Anniversary!
I’ve decided that since I have been promising to put NWTK on cd instead of the archaic tapes I’m going to do this towards the end of the year. The reason for the delay is that next year will be the TENTH anniversary of the recording of NWTK and to mark the rather scary event, the NWTK Tenth Anniversary CD will also include some cool extras and hopefully will have some CD ROM/DVD stuff as well.

Righto, better sign off. Love to all, and take care…

Jo