Work has been really hectic over the past few weeks, including a 21 hour session over the weekend before last. I ended up being emotionally and physically exhausted. Rather depressed actually to put it mildly.

But, this difficult stretch of work doesn’t appear to be at an end yet. However, following some discussions with my good friend (and business colleague) Mark, I’ve decided to try and lighten the load, which may cause difficulties with our clients, but there’s no practical alternative. We didn’t start the business so that we’d end up ruining the lives of one or both of us.

Winston Churchill is a good source of quotations for times like this:

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

I’m listening to di.fm’s Trance channel at the moment for the first time in a week or so and I’m kind of happy. Furthermore, the iTunes Music Store has just been loaded with lots of albums from the Beggars Banquet group of record labels. This means that those who don’t know Kristin Hersh, Throwing Muses or 50 Foot Wave can now discover more about them, and I can buy Breakbeat Era’s classic 1999 album Ultra Obscene (which predated the more commercial Kosheen by a good few years, and which saves me having to record it from my vinyl version).

Nice.

Breakbeat Era: biography
Ultra Obscene: review