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Hi Jem

Saw your Tweet about looking for a 4X4 for the new house and also your comments about needing an interim solution for a recording space until the new place is ready. My mate just bought this, a Land Rover 101 cab forward ambulance:


Which has been retrofitted as a mobile studio as shown below:


You could do Martini recording and menace the locals at the same time!

It's the Axiom Pro I have which I use with Reason and it is a fantastic piece of kit for the price.I think the keyboard is great but I am only comparing it to the likes of 1990's synths so...  

I am by no means anywhere near your standard Jem but I have a couple of M-Audio boards and find the automap feature really useful. Had a go on one of these at my mates and it is cracking://http://www.dv247.com/invt/38325/

Billy Currie from Ultravox uses it's big brother, a red 88 key jobbie and he says its the dog's danglies, blooming pricey though for those of us that can't claim it through our business (neither Payroll system engineers or horse dealers can claim a legitimate excuse apparently, bloody accountants)

Gotta agree with Fishy the Nanokey is a cracking wee thing

Chuffing cocking chuff, I have tickets for another gig that night in Glasgow, which were a birthday present so I can't really off load them. Arghhhh

And I popped along to the Throbbing Gristle gig in Glasgow last night. They did a live accompaniment to a movie and Cosey was playing BeBot throughout. GPO also had an app running which reacted to him moving the device (filter changes etc)

Me and the Nozza did actually debate if it would be possible. We concluded that it would and that we wouldn't rule it out. It would actually be rather bleedin' cool.  

I did an imrpomtu 15 minutes on the iPhone with Looptastic the other night at my mate's gig, I reckon Apple should give me some shares the amount of folk that came up to me afterwards to ask what I had been 'playing' and then went off to look into getting one!

So I am in India but thanks to the incredible generosity of Mr Godfrey I have been enjoying EIMA for the last 2 weeks and fuck a duck (quack quack) what a gorgeous wee thing it is (BTW Jem I have a Dalek with your name on it which Mrs Fergey has to send you along with some other stuff...)

So a review...

EIMA - quiet accousticy and then loud 3:30 in, JM has been on the the cranberry juice ( some folks need to listen instead of comment)

Welcome to Nowhere - Jem writes pop songs you know - burn him at the stake!! this is a lovely tune which is poppy and proggy at the same time. Remember we are all Victims of Progress - Welcome to Nowhere

Pocket Sun - you know it but you don't at the same - Once Round The World With Mr Verne indeed

Saline - I cried - Nuff said

Dear Dead Days - I am so proud, in a round about way, to be associated with Frost* this is the best prog rock song of 2008. Godfrey you are a lion!!! (and I might have just come...)

Falling Down - 3.10 in, is the best band on the planet? and that piano!!!! For reasons, I'm satisfied! you wee cheeky fat pianist you read my mind

You/I - Perfection in just a tad over 1 minute, an adjunct to Picture from kKno. Mr G my cap is truely doffed

Toys - Yes Yes Yes. This is the perfect pop song. and the splash cymbal at 1:35 is perfect too. In years to come Andy will be recognised for the brilliance of his work on this and rightly so. Listen to what his feet are doing on this

Wonderland - Rightly or wrongly the track that will get all the prog purests going (wrongly in my opinion, there is more here to get excited about)

So what of EIMA? I loved/love it. Jem has instilled a much needed sensibility into the album and fuck me it is a brilliant shiny wee thing. It is hard as some if the tracks, thanks to the Frost Reports, are familiar but holy moley in all their official brillance they are brilliant.

Listen, enjoy, share and buy at least 1 tshirt (the Egyptians love them!)

In the words of Mr G - A Secret I'll Follow you for Years...!