Billie Ray Martin at HMV Oxford Circus

Just been to see the divine Billie Ray Martin doing a PA at HMV Oxford Circus to promote her album as The Opiates, Hollywood Under the Knife. First time I've seen her live, and she is wonderful! Robert Solheim provided sterling support and I got the album signed. It's well worth checking out.
If your copy of the CD acts the same as mine, you'll find that the song Dinah and the Beautiful Blue comes up on Gracenote listed as Dinah and the Beautiful Blue Dildo. BRM's management tell me this is NOT the title of the song, which is 'a wonderful, tender tale and nothing to do with a dildo. Some idiot has interfered with the track details, which we will get corrected.' So there you have it, straight from the source!

New synth - Technics WSA1R

My latest eBay acquisition is a technics WSA1R, an acoustic modelling synth which I thought might be more useable than the Yamaha VL-70M. It's a 3u unit so it takes up a load of space, and from first impressions the sounds come across more like sample-and-synth than acoustic models. But I gather the presets are a little lame, so I'll try some downloaded patches. I also have a Quasimidi Quasar on the way, at which point I'll probably get rid of the TechnoX - so that didn't last long...