• Make More Lists – this is a start
• Make an acoustic EP by the end of March 2010
• Run another IKTOMS event at the end of March / start of April
• Play a set of my own material once a month
• Go to a gig on the old IKTOMS scene once a month (starting with TABARNAK, The Great Indoors, We Love…, MNYC, Folkadot, BAOBABS etc)
• Give an album its ‘proper listen’ once a month (sitting down with an appropriate beverage and doing nothing but listen and sip)
• Keep reading (I’m on a book a week right now, and loving it)
• Write more – I wrote a few pieces for the Rockfeedback end of year and end of decade articles, and really enjoyed it. Plus, as you well know, the world needs my opinions.
• Drink less. Smoke not.

And some more I’m sure, but I’ll be happy if I make the above happen. It helps that most of them are fun, and it’d be a sad failing indeed if I can;t make myself do things I actually want to do.

So – let me know if I’m failing!

It used to be that I actively sought out intelligent people and conversation… it was hard to come by. Perhaps because of running IKTOMS, and moving to London, all of that’s turned on its head: I no longer seem have the time to get to know all of the incredibly talented and artistic people I meet as well as I would like.

This is obviously a desirable situation. But what it really got me thinking about was just how little breakthrough there is between the talented, unsigned, unpaid circle I’m talking about; and the mainstream, professional, paid circle they supposedly aspire to. I’m talking in general terms here, and it *is* a general concern, but I suppose I notice it mostly in music.

So, in a burst of optimism, I’m overcoming my personal fear of maintaining a weBLOG, and intend upon posting up musings, pointers and excitement on a semi-regular basis. If this trail of thoughts gains an audience, and leads to that audience discovering some of the aforementioned talent, it will have served a purpose. It could be a rallying-point… a call-to-action.. or something equally heroic and wonderful.

I certainly also hope it will be useful in partaking of the community that is essential to any artistic endeavour or project.

Before I leave post #1 to the wilderness that is my blog readership, a small note to readers yet to come. I hope desperately to avoid the following terrible trends in blogs:

(1) Incessant ‘Best Of’ posts.

(2) Incessant self-promotion (so you know now, I’m a singer-songwriter, an events coordinator and promoter, and a video editor and producer, in differing measures. Call me up on shameless plugging when it gets too much.

(3) Incessant posting, full stop… noone is interesting more than once a day.

Ok, that’s it, mouse pointer to publish button, and off goes the blogger…

Kev x