On top of all this website business I have shows coming up and recording plans in the works. It should be an exciting year around here.

Aside from that Steve Bates is flying in from Montreal in a few weeks for our first and only Winnipeg show of 2007! Wait there’s more: I’ve been writing many new songs, and there are tours in the works which should take me to cities and towns all over the damn place. To start there’s a Greg MacPherson Band tour being booked for this August in eastern Canada! Even more unbelievable, the website upgrade I’ve been promising is finally getting close to completion. I know it seems like years have gone by since I started talking about that… but that’s only because it WAS several years ago. The good news is that Derek’s sober again and he’s locked himself in a Halifax basement with three or four laptops and a desk top computer working at maximum capacity 24 hours a day promising that the site will be finished soon (marginally witty comments like that may slow his productivity though so I should mind my droll sense of humour where old Derek Vandemeer Hogue is concerned or he’s liable to hit the bottle again harder than ever and my lifelong dream of having a new website to replace this older website… the website I had dreamt about so many years previous and which had replaced the original website I had dreamt up to replace my first crazy website - will never be realised.)

Something else that I find incredibly exciting and important is that I’ve decided to add another unreleased track to our myspace profile. Yes that’s right, the response to last month’s posting of ‘Time and Place’ was so huge (millions of you wrote in with encouraging letters and sent parcels stuffed with north american blue jeans) that I’ve posted yet another new recording made during the same session.

Anyone interested in hearing a rough demo of a new song that Derek and I recorded last August in Winnipeg can stop by myspace.com/macphersonband and click on ‘Time and Place’. There’s other stuff there too but don’t browse around myspace too long or you’ll cut into your facebook time.

While I’m still in Canada though I need to set the record straight about something, I LIVE IN WINNIPEG. I am a citizen of the great province of Manitoba which lies both at the geographic and intellectual centre of Canada. I’m from Nova Scotia and I’ve lived in 7 Canadian provinces but currently I reside in Winnipeg. People keep asking me so I figure this will settle the mystery once and for all.

Anyway the break has done me a world of good, I caught up on sleep, worked a few shifts at the old job, read books and most importantly I sat down and did some serious writing for the first time in way too long. I already have about 5 new songs that I quite like and I hope that you’ll like them too. I may try to post one here or maybe on my equally ridiculous myspace site at some point in the near future… perhaps you’ve heard of myspace, it’s another one of these tremendously useful time saving devices we’re all so blessed with in this age of infinite convenience. Yeah, keep you’re eye open for that and maybe a new song or two if the planets line up properly over the next few weeks.

Okay, back to business and not a moment too soon! I have a European tour in the works with dates already up on the ’shows’ page! I have… hmmmm, well like I said, I’m JUST getting back to business. Uh… have I told you about my new songs? Did I mention that I have a myspace page all of a sudden? Have you seen Al Gore’s film about global warming? That’s some scary shit… Hey, check this out: www.truwinnipeg.org. This may be the smartest and best argument I’ve ever heard made in the interest of the city of Winnipeg!

Okay, I gotta go do some music related business.