I got back from my run (oh, running. Starting to run again after getting the cast off my broken wrist feels like the beginning of a new romance. But that’s another day) this evening to find emails from GoodBooks with all of their ‘thank yous’ for their album sleeve. Reading it over – and calling them back to check about adding in people here and there – triggers off thinking about all of these people and what they’ve done in the past two years (and more) for the band. The document runs onto two A4 pages with the collective band thanks and individual thanks – just goes to show, I suppose, how many people there are behind the scenes! It feels crazy to think that we’re at this point now of doing the credits in the album – feels like something of an end point to the making of this record. Of course it won’t be done until the artwork’s all put to bed and we’re holding the stock and discovering the typos really. They’ve spent so long, though, working on the actual record that it’s cool to get to a point where we’re just packaging it up and making it look as special as it sounds.
A few years ago I really wanted to make an album, but that was pretty much mostly because I wanted to write a thank yous list. I’m pretty sure I spent more time thinking about that than the actually making songs – so I’ve been quite jealous this evening reading all of theirs! One of the perils of starting off as their friend and not manager is feeling at times like I should share in all the perks that they get (writing thank yous, free clothes, free Playstations, all that jazz) – it’s a good reminder when I don’t that there is a distinction between where I end and they begin. Boundaries that are necessary and welcome…I don’t think I’d like being in a band.
Tomorrow I’m off up to Birmingham to see GoodBooks and will catch up with a couple of old friends when I’m there. Should be good I hope. I have a feeling this week might be a bit gruelling, but I’m quite looking forward to that – recent conversations with those close to me have made me feel a bit more gung ho, all militant and full of the “Yeah!” spirit, so if I can keep on acting like that (new motto: Be more hardcore) then good things should happen. And good things happen when good things happen.
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