More gigging and a public lecture given by me!

I have my second gig with the band on Friday this week. I've learned the
whole repertoire but we have yet to settle on a set list. This week excitingly we put together one of my songs 'Atheism' with the band and it's sounding awesome. It's always so surprising and rewarding playing my songs with other people and the band really nail it.

On the academic front, I've almost finalised the abstract for my paper at the consciousness conference, but closer at hand is a public talk by me on March 4th to the consciousness forum. I will be giving a longer version of the paper which I will then present at the conference (which I am yet to write!)

On a more somber note my Maternal Grandmother, Nanny Joyce died on Saturday. Unfortunately I will not be able to make it back to England for the funeral since it is financially not viable. My brother is saying som words on behalf of the grandchildren and I'm sure he'll do a good job.

Be well all

Theoretical debut

On Friday night, whilst still recovering from my chest infection I played my first gig with The Theory. We played and won the first round of a battle of the bands
at The Rock in Tucson. That puts us through to the final where we could win some recording time in a professional studio. Despite being a bit nervous (not so much of messing up my own performance but of messing up and spoiling the band's performance) I played a great set and we went down a storm. Lots of people signed up to our myspace page as friends of the band
after the gig.

Phlegm and fun

For all of you 10's of people who are reading this blog, my apologies for lack of activity recently. I was taken quite thoroughly ill with a chest infection
which I only really got over on Saturday. Some would call it man-flu, but I was actually really
unwell for a week; fever, aching joints, total fatigue, generally crap.

However on the plus side, my sponsor very much liked my re-worked abstract for the conference in April, so that's a good thing. I'm also booked to give a public talk to the consciousness forum on March 5th which will give me a dry run for my conference presentation.