Dirty Washing

Seemed to have spent all day doing laundry. You get through so much when you’ve got a kid. It never stops… It certainly didn’t used to be like this. I always quite enjoyed taking a bag down to the laundrette.

This is the moment I will look back upon doing a 180° turn. Hopefully not with regret but we’ll have to see about that. You see, you only live once and you have to grab the moments when they come. So I changed my mind and said yes to the Arts Theatre’s idea to do a show based around my songs. So that’s it then… here’s what I’ve come up with:

I thought I’d do the evening with a theme based on the history of a relationship between two lovers, and I’ve worked out an order of songs that would fit the story. I then had the idea of asking Natalie [an ex of mine who has a very good voice] if she might like to be in it aswell, to put the female’s perspective… It took a few minutes to realize what a crazy idea that was… A girl who I was once madly in love with, who I haven’t seen for a while, in a show onstage with me, about the nightmarish history we shared as lovers? I’d be asking the girl I wrote most of my songs about to be in a show about me writing lots of songs about her. It’s all too surreal. And what would her husband say [let alone my partner]? The whole thing has become a mental nightmare and I’ve decided that it probably isn’t the best way to go. It would be like hanging all your dirty washing out in public. If I’m still to do a show of some sort, I’ll have to think of something else.

Just realised the irony of what I’m doing in the video. I knew it was all a bad idea.