ALWAYS THE SAME or FOREVER CHANGES?

Ok, so, the day after tomorrow I will be unceremoniously leaving Leicester – the town in which I’ve lived for 5 out of the past 6 years – probably forever.

I didn’t really intend my departure to be so sudden and drastic, but so it goes.

Leicester is not initially the most exciting, culture-rocking city in the UK but nonetheless it has been good to me over the years, and there are a number of people and institutions I will definitely miss. I was going to take this opportunity to sing their praises as I ride off ass-backwards into the diminishing sunset, but on second thought that would be a bit maudlin and unnecessary – if they or their representatives are reading then they probably know who they are, and, well, don’t look back, as The Remains, Bob Dylan and Belle & Sebastian (in that order of relevance) have all reminded us over the years.

So anyway, this is the last post I’ll make to this weblog from my drab old work PC, and expect things to be a quiet for maybe a week or so as I sort myself out.

After that, if all goes to plan, I should be posting from my shiny new Apple Mac, one like all the cool kids have, which will be sooo awesome, and will no doubt allow me to do exciting hi-tech stuff, like posting MP3s, or creating highly compressed psychic chaospheres that will blast out of the screen and fill your head with the exact experience of what it was like to attend a gig or listen to a record, thus rendering the act of writing irrelevant, or, y’know, whatever other rad stuff you can do with computers these days.

That’s if I can rig up a half-decent internet connection down in the depths of darkest Wales – last time I looked they had a service down there quaintly known as “intermittent broadband” – eg, it goes at about half normal speed and shuts itself off every five minutes.

So like I say, we’ll see, but watch this space.