This week my wife Straylight and I depart London for good and move to The Netherlands. 
Our first stop is Amsterdam, where we’ve got an apartment rented for a short time while we look for something permanent in the vicinity of Amsterdam/Utrecht/Den Haag/Rotterdam. 

So yes, farewell to London!  Over the course of our time here we did see plenty of great bands and went to plenty of cool parties.  Unfortunately we’ve been living in a bona fide ghetto area (Seven Sisters), so the filthy setting in a violent atmosphere set the tone for our daily lives.  Catching the tube and changing at Kings Cross at peak hour twice a day, being pushed into a Northern Line carriage by hundreds of dead-eyed suits, was at best “undignified”, and the world’s seemingly longest winter didn’t help matters. 
Of course, there was plenty of good to balance out the harsh, and not just the bands and the parties, but the point is our time here is over for the near future and I’m looking forward to hitting The Netherlands. 

Right now Kong and I are working full steam on the debut Shiv-r album.  This is our main focus now and the music’s sounding nice & dark.  It will take a bit of time to get settled in The Netherlands but it won’t take long to set up my music-space again so the album progress won’t be too hindered.  At this rate we should be finished the writing process by the end of the year. 

My next post should be from Amsterdam…



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