Oh good lord my head hurts. I just wanted to drop a line to the diary page to say merry Christmas to all of you. Last night was a bit of an alcoholic frenzy and tonight I’m off to another party so I might need a blood transfusion for Christmas. I hope you all like the Christmas song we recorded. We had real fun doing it. I hope Santa brings you nice prezzies. Here are my favourite things of 2005.

Yokahama arena. Top gig.

Hanson tour. Really lovely band

Bhuddist retreat in Koya San. Very mellow

Shanghai. China was Maotastic

Guingamp That was like a scene from Delicatessen. Mental

My Pod XT guitar FX

John Prine gig at the Shepherds Bush Empire. Awesome

Young Heart Attack at 93 Feet East. Rockin

The curry I had on my Birthday. Yummy

The meal that Kuma and Uji Cooked for me. Amazing.

My Favourite records and bands I heard in 2005 (although probably not released in 2005) in no particular order

John Prine- Fair And Square

Tom Petty- Anthology

Bleu

The Semantics

Brendan Benson

Josh Rouse – Nashville

Randy Newman- Songbook

XTC- Skylarking

Police- Box Set

Simon And Garfunkel- Box Set