What I was going to talk about in my last post, was my love of music (hence the promise of not getting too personal about my feelings, which then descended into that rant above).

When I lived in the UK, I was really into music, both listening to it, and writing/playing it. Every weekend my friends and I would spend hours in record shops, finding new and interesting bands. At other times, I'd have friends round with their instruments, and we'd play together in my study until the small wee hours of the morning.

I moved to the US, and this all seemed to stop. Probably because I was in the sleepy suburb of Littleton, where they wouldn't know an independent record store if it came up and bit them. After a while, I moved up to Wash Park (Washington Park -a fashionable area of Denver), but despite being ony three blocks from Twist & Shout, things didn't improve.

In the past month or so, however, my passion for new music has been re-ignited. I've bought several new CDs, including one by Hooverphonic. I also have a few more, obscure music purchases planned.

The point being, I'm on the verge, and have the urge(!) to embark upon a new music writing project. This will be my most 'out there' stuff yet. It's an old 'never-actually-started' project idea, from the morning after a very late-night jam session (making music, not jam) with my old buddy John.

We came up with some new sounds on my synth workstation, and his guitar (plus myriad of effects pedals) akin to that of Portishead. The project/band would be named Mangotsfield. This is another suburb of Bristol (in the UK, as is Portishead) where I lived for the first three years of my life.

I've made a small start, but between looking for a job, housework(!) and dog-minding, I'm not getting much done. Eventually, the sound should be a mix of influences from Portishead, Massive Attack, Morcheeba and any of the newer bands I'm discovering. These include the aforementioned Hooverphonic, Lamb, Baxter and The Supreme Being of Leisure.