Where have we been? A whole week of no posts and people asking why. Well real life sometimes gets in the way of the very real life that is art and the beautiful escape from real life that music sometimes is. The silence in the last week was mostly due to a family bereavement and well yes, normally there would have been our usual extensive coverage of London Gallery Weekend, or that show over at Peckham Safehouse that I should have been taking part in or Sweet Toof painting outside a venue where Ruins were playing. Normally I would tramp around London Gallery Weekend, the reality is that it is pretty much the same as most London gallery weekends and in fact I could do it all next weekend and avoid all the hype and the self congratulating galleries and the stickers on the windows that are about the only thing that separates London Gallery Weekend from any weekend walking around London Galleries. I haven’t been in a Gallery for almost two weeks now (beside a quick visit to the Grey Gallery over here in East London yesterday to catch the last day of a show in that space, more of which later). On with it all then, on on on. My Dad was great, I shall miss his smile (sw)