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May 10 2022

TO WHERE I AM NOW

Today I finally found the shop where I could take my delay pedal to get fixed. It was so easy to find that it would have been harder not to find it, somehow I managed the latter. I could even see it from the road I walk down every day. Friendly guys in there, Jorge and Pedro, Pedro on his way out, Jorge had spent four years living near Oxford and spoke really good English. I showed him the pedal, he tried it, it didn’t work. He unscrewed it all, took the casing off and inside it looked quite complex. He went and tried it again without the casing and it worked perfectly. He then replaced the casing and it didn’t work – I left it with him.

I walked to the gym/pool a different route and found myself on some windy narrow back streets. It was a typical Porto street, with houses of different shapes and sizes, different colours, lots of tiles, some ruined, some extraordinarily beautiful. I walked until I found myself back in a street that I knew, I’d overshot the street I needed but was near enough and had explored an area I hadn’t been to before. It was a beautiful day for a walk like this, a stroll through authentic southern Europe.

I had two seshes today, one with Brian in Indiana, the other with Jeff in Ohio, dinner and Aston Villa/Liverpool in between. I was also trying to do the daily language but managed only a small part with seshes and a chat with my mate Boydy on the phone. The days are way too short. I collapse into bed wondering about the things I didn’t manage today, wiring up my pedalboard, writing a song, reading a book.

The insects have started flying back into the room, bees and flies so far, nothing too scary. I keep on thinking one of the seagulls or pigeons is going to fly in because up here on the fifth floor, they are always flying past the window or landing on the roof just above us. Sometimes they sit on the window ledge and coo. As the early evening arrives and before the light fades, a gang of tweeting birds arrive on the roof and sing sweet music to the sky.

People are talking about a murder today here in Porto, young men fighting until someone dies, pointless, the man who died was 26, the man/boy allegedly responsible for his death, just 19. Meaningless slaughter in the streets, the humans are at it again.

Music today has been Tori Amos – Ocean to Ocean. She was always accused of being too much like Kate Bush but these days she sounds quite like herself. This is her latest album released at the end of October 2021.

Music Of The Daze

Written by Marty Willson-Piper · Categorized: Blog

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This is my stolen 1965 Rickenbacker 12-string, serial number EB157. If there's any chance of this guitar coming back to me before I go to meet my maker, then that would be wonderful. Please contact me if you have any information.

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We are happy to announce that @anekdotenband will We are happy to announce that 
@anekdotenband will be playing a show in Spain on September 24th at the 19th Festival Art Rock Minnuendo in Peralta – Alzkoien in the Navarre region in North-Eastern Spain. It’s 60km from Pamplona where they have the insane running of the bulls. They like heavy prog there and consequently, Anekdoten will be headlining the festival. See you there!

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...what we were up to over the weekend 🎸 29/04 ...what we were up to over the weekend 🎸

29/04/22 - babelmalmo, MALMÖ
30/04/22 - @musikenshus, GÖTEBORG
01/05/22 - @bryggarsalen, STOCKHOLM

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Song: "Until All The Ghosts Are Gone" (s/t, 2015)
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OUT NOW 👣 Afridi/Willson-Piper present HAND IN OUT NOW 👣

Afridi/Willson-Piper present HAND IN HAND off their debut album In The End, The Birds Will Sing (2022, tba).

The duo's first single PLASTIK, which launched on New Year’s Day, was reflective of the positive mood of the new year - erasing the past and looking forward with a pure and happy love song. Hand in Hand is more indicative of today’s mood and reality - a world of love, war, warts and all, and the need to find a good path forward. Available to stream via the usuals.

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Checking into a hotel with a guitar, really? That’s something I haven’t done for a very long time. 

I'll be playing in Malmö, Göteborg, and Stockholm with @anekdotenband this weekend. Vi ses!

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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the releas This year marks the 30th anniversary of the release of #spiritlevel 💽

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📷 by Håkan Lindell/@hokkysson (1992)
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the releas This year marks the 30th anniversary of the release of #spiritlevel 💽

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📷 by Håkan Lindell/@hokkysson (1992)
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Missing

This is my stolen 1965 Rickenbacker 12-string, serial number EB157. If there’s any chance of this guitar coming back to me before I go to meet my maker, then that would be wonderful. Please contact me if you have any information.

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