Catching Up - Take A Worm For A Walk Week, Beerjacket and Y'All Is Fantasy Island

Take A Worm For A Walk Week's Album Launch, CCA, 07042011. Supported by OV and Remember Remember. Brilliant Night.

Y'All Is Fantasy Island's Last Ever Gig at Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh 11th March 2011 supported by Loch Awe and Two Wings. Travesty that this was the first and last time I experienced YIFI.

Michael Cassidy supporting Beerjacket. Lovely choice.

Beerjacket - 1st drawing of him at Peenko's Tea Party at the Hidden Lane Tearoom 10th March 2011

Beerjacket - 2nd Drawing of the Night - Tonight was my first live experience of Peter Kelly aka Beerjacket. Talented chap, lovely singing and lyrics, great in the intimate space of the Hidden Lane Tearoom. I would thoroughly recommend these rare nights in. Remember to BYOB. Corkage fee, but worth it.

WIDE DAYS - BTBW (FANTASTIC) SEMINARS ON THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

The drawings from Born To Be Wide's 'Wide Days'. The other drawings will make their way on here one way or another, in their own good time, like all good things.

Wide Days - Making Touring Pay

with Robert Hicks(Rockness co-founder and tour promoter), Jason Edwards (booking agent, 13 Artists), Michael Lambert (Moderator/Manager/Musician), Keren McKean (Music Manager), Caroline Winn (General Manager, Hebrides Ensemble)

You can tell this is my first iPad sketch of the day where the time limit has escaped me - I was also writing screeds down on a seperate sketch book. Hopefully you can see that my method improves throughout the day :)

Wide Days - Write a Killer Bio - with Neil Cooper

Wide Days - Not Just SXSW

with David Balfour (Fine Tunes/Records of the Day), Shaun Arnold (goNorth), Olaf Furniss (BTBW/Moderator), Richard Caesar (Un-Convention), Allan McGowan (Conference Consultant)

Wide Days - Making Money with PPL - with Dan Millington

Wide Days - Digital DIY vs Record Labels

with Stewart Henderson (Chemikal Underground), Matthew Young (Song By Toad), Olaf Furniss (BTBW/Moderator), Scott Cohen (Manager/The Orchard), David Balfour (Fine Tunes/Records of the Day).

Wide Days - Online Promotion with Inner Ear's Dougal Perman and Andy McGolgan

Wide Days - Music in Films

with Caroline Gorman (Rage Music), Eleanor Yule (Film Director), Vic Galloway (BBC Radio Presenter/Moderator), Malcolm Lindsay (Composer), Huw Williams (Soundtrack Film Festival)

Wide Days - Music Making Money with Scott Cohen

Keynote - Olaf Furniss (BTBW) in conversation with Barry Wright (Co-Founder Regular Music)

Excellent reviews of the day, which are much more informative, can be found at Peenko, Popcop and IsThisMusic?

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'Thoughts'

Well it's been quite a day.

I feel washed out. 5 hours sleep and up at 6.30am feeling quite chirpy, sun shining. Nipped off to Edinburgh with my packed lunch, portfolio and drawing materials, and proceeded to draw the fantastic BTBW Wide Days music industry event on my iPad between 10am-6.30pm, train ride back to Glasgow, then drawing the album launch of Take A Worm For A Walk Week from 9pm-11.40pm.

Have just got back into my room, it's 1.27am, and I think I'm going to hit the hay.

But not before I mentioned my iPad learning curve documenting BTBW, my upcoming commission to draw a wedding, the backlog of 30 or so drawings I need to scan and upload to the blog (because I certainly haven't been idle since you last heard from me, simply that I've been a bit overwhelmed with work), the 2nd Children's book that I'm working on, and the fact that I'm decanting my room/workspace to move to Stockholm - an adventure I've finally accepted the challenge of. :)

With that, I leave you. Goodnight.