My next gig is official – I’ll be working for The Presets! It should be a load of fun. I haven’t met the band, but I have it on reasonable authority that we should get along well. Their manager, Will, has been super so far, and that’s easily 50% of the equation, I’ve learned :-)

There are two tours, actually. Both are North American. The first is from 03 SEP through 27 SEP, and is a club tour. It kind of bounces around, so we’ll be flying to roughly a third of the dates, which should be tiring but still way better than driving. Then apparently there’s another tour as the main support for The Rapture, which starts 27 OCT. Assuming the first tour works out well for everyone involved, we’ll carry the relationship forward to the second tour. As Roger Riedlbauer would say, fair enough!

I’ve been in L.A. with Shannon for the last ten days or so. We’re getting used to it, a little bit! She played her first open mic down here tonight – it sucked, but Kelly Clarkson was there. So that was strange, in a good way.