Part 11: The final gruelling drag

Hello,

2 weeks ago I flew to little old Adelaide town to take some photos of the place that started this whole Department journey way back in early 2008. Its looking like I'll use one of the images for the album cover & maybe one in the booklet somewhere. Seems appropriate enough. There have been several concepts for the album art over the years, some that I will save for the future, but it's looking like now I will do a big chunk of the work myself & just use a designer to tighten the final layout.

I'm scheduled to meet up with the graphic designer tomorrow & round about mid next week I book my mastering session at Disk Edits in Adelaide, finally my record can be pressed & that is when the work is really going to begin again. I cant wait.



Right now i'm in the process of rebuilding my live set from scratch, i'm finally making some progress on an idea that i've been dreaming up for years. The last show was a shitty one coz i've grown bored with my setup, I need to get back to the things that really excite me. My next show is in August at the Friend in Hand in Sydney, it's a performance poetry night so it'll be a good opportunity for me to get outside of my comfort zone. As soon as the record is in my hands I want to perform all over, as much as possible, to start I'll definitely be revisiting my friends in Melbourne, Tasmania & Adelaide (of course), Perth is looking likely too.

The last year has been hard on my brain, working between 45 & 50 hours a week making electronics is not where I want to be, I feel violated, I can see my future in the bitter twisted faces of the factory zombies. Time to make a move I think.

I'm looking forward to sharing this record with you, looking forward to pushing it, looking forward to sending out hundreds of envelopes & cursing the paper cuts, looking forward to performing so much that I forget why I'm doing it. All that ugly, all that magic. It's gonna be good kid, real good.

& if you are feeling as dissapointed as I am with our current political situation why not load your car up with high explosives & drive it into parliment! If not check out the new album by my friend Trillion, its the next best thing!
trillion-everything is under control



I look forward to seeing you soon.

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