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2010? Bring it on!

A Happy New Year to all! 2010 promises to be a busy one…

Let's hear it for New York

I'm back from an awesome week in New York City, networking my skinny ass off at the CMJ Music Marathon - a sort of music industry trade fair where daytime seminars at NYU are complimented by nighttime shows all over the city

Out with the old, in with the new

An exciting week lies ahead

A new site for sore eyes

As you might have noticed, the Gronk site has undergone something of a face-lift except—unlike so many celebrities—this website's face should be more responsive by the end of the process.

And I say "end", because the site-building isn't quite finished yet—as you might be able to tell.

However, the move to a new content management system has expanded the functionality...

Band sounds great, album will be late

So the full band finally came together on Saturday: three guitars, bass, drums, trumpet and two backing singers. I left the session mulling over what it means to be a musician: there are those who like to spend hours in a darkened room working intricate structures up to note-perfect standard, and those who just want to hammer out a groove in a room filled with the like-minded.

After Saturday I know which kind I prefer. Consummate musicians, all of the band members, but of the extrovert kind—totally unfazed by the idea of being presented with a song they'd never heard, in the knowledge that they only had time to run through it once or twice before performing it live. The session sounded absolutely fantastic, better than I'd dared to hope for—roll on the weekend and the Hoxton gig!