I’ve been working through a few ideas for the next set of recordings and I’m now pretty certain it’ll be a mostly electric set of traditional songs. There’ll undoubtedly be some acoustic material as well, but for the most part it’ll be guitars turned up to eleven, bass, and drums, probably with quite a bit of feedback and general noise.

Quite how this is going to turn out, I’m not sure – for a start I need to decide whether to use real or programmed drums, and, if the former, whether I play them myself or not… decisions, decisions…

And then I’ll probably need to buy a new fuzz-box. My much-cherished DOD Supra-distortion pedal, which I’ve had for about 15 years, has finally given up the ghost, and the cheapo nasty pedal I picked up from a bargain bin in Oxford doesn’t have the capacity for going completely out of control that the DOD had. The Danelectro “French Toast” octave/fuzz pedal seems to have a bit of a reputation for being erratic and messy, which sounds ideal for my purposes, but if anyone has any better ideas I’m all ears.