Hello y'all.
I can't believe it's already been a month since my last confession....

During this time Justine (my trusty funky film making friend) and I have been meeting up at the same spot in my studio to be, every week to record a "round up" of the week's events.

We've been doing so much we haven't had a minute to compile them and get them up onto the website but during her mad rush before leaving for Australia/Japan for a couple of weeks, we got them together for you. We have 5 so far and we're going to play catch up for a few weeks before they even out to once a week. You're going to see the studio scene behind me change gradually until it's all ready for playing about/ recording in, which looks to be mid sept now, not end July like I'd first predicted/hoped. I'm going to be posting these mostly now rather than writing my written iblog. I will of course still muse here every now and then for those who prefer the letters.

Here's the first one:


There is going to be a DVD eventually, which is why we're filming in the first place but we thought it'd be cool to do a video blog too at the same time.

The highlight for this last month has been the Nitin Sawhney Proms concert at the Royal Albert Hall, which I have just recorded talking about this but because of catch up time you'll get it in a couple of weeks once we catch up. Up there's a pic of me way up in the "gods" while they were rehearsing another song on stage. I love going to The Proms. The trick is to go to a really unpopular one (which his one certainly wasn't), take a pillow (to lay your head on/sit on), and promenade (which means queuing up on the day to get a space on the arena floor) for a fiver. I've seen some of my favourite concerts ever at the Proms. The song I was on stage with Nitin and all the other fabulous musicians of course went by in a flash. I remember consciously trying to soak in a moment and really "be there" while I was singing otherwise it'd just rush by me altogether. I watched the rest of the night, gatecrashing on Reena's (amazing singer who there also that night and sings a lot with Nitin) parent's box. We'd give one another that "Oh my, isn't she amazing" look whenever the moments took us.

The low point had to be a boy I like an awful lot crushing the news he wasn't into me in that way. Ugh.. I haven't felt that achingly helpless dejected feeling since I was like 15. Boo... Why do we fall for the one's we can't have? Why can't we have it all? I suppose there must be a reason somewhere. I'm going to hunt it down and kill it. The silver lining is of course the song that will have to come from this.

I'm still in very good spirits though as the studio is ever closer to becoming a reality. I can't bleedin' wait to get stuck in. The hallway's being painted a lovely yellow and the central ceiling above the spiral staircase will be adorning a mural of clouds and birds in a week.

Love to you all.
immi xxxxx