This is how it happened. Benedict came to me - it would be last Wednesday or Thursday - and asked if I'd be prepared to consider changing bands. I was really upset at first, I kind of flared up at him, after all the work I've done for Damp Patch. But when I came down he said he'd been approached by the manager of an important all-girl band with recording contracts who'd lost their bass player just a month before the beginning of a tour and needed an urgent replacement. The sweetener was a sum of money for Damp Patch that was so large he couldn't just refuse out of hand. There was also a huge bag of gold for me if I took the job and stuck it out for the whole tour - three months. I would also get a share, obviously, of the tour proceeds, and if it worked out there would be a place in the all-girl band for me and if not I could come back to Damp Patch. So, he was asking me if I was up for it before he gave them an answer. I guessed about halfway through his spiel that it was Amazon Harlequin and I didn't keep him waiting.

Anyway, it's not at all the same thing as being with Damp Patch and when I get a minute I'll go into more detail, but I'm in Leicester using Joe's laptop on a dial-up and it's so slow I'm going mad here and I'm too busy learning yet another play list to waste any time. It's just I had to tell someone.