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Well my gig on tuesday went ok, started late and kinda ran over and so being the last act to play, I didn't get on stage til after 12. So I kinda threw caution to the wind and opened up with a song that I'd not really played publicly before. Its called "Coming Down is Hard", the opening verse being "She smokes her cigarettes with grace, you know exactly what she mean when she pulls that face, without saying a word, but sometimes she swears a little to remind you its still hurts". It got the idea from an article in a newspaper whilst in London last year, I was sitting in The Bedford Arms waiting to play at The City Showcase having a pint of Red Stripe, and lovely it was too. 

Anyways there was an interview with a girl who said something about smoking cigarettes with grace and still swearing a little in the context of her now being a little older & wiser whilst reminising about her youth.

So those lines and that idea stuck in my head and on my return to Ireland I wrote a song but I've been fiddling with the arrangement and the melody and the lyrics, since then and its had several incarnations but the one I'm at now I feel is the way the song should be.

Its quite a subdued sparse and underplayed song and so requires more of the listener, so past midnight wasn't the greatest time to play it but now that its had its first airing I shall introduce it to my set more often. Hopefully I'll get it demo-ed soon but I only really like putting up stuff thats finished for people to hear, so you might have to wait.

I'm hoping to get back over to London and do a few more shows this year, so hopefully I'll get a song or 2 out of the trip too