This has been a very quiet year gig-wise, for a variety of reasons, most of them far too mundane to trouble you with here. One reason though was a burst of recording and media work in the first half of the year and another was the formation and rehearsal process of the new band, Dog Moon Howl.
What gigs there have been have varied greatly from a professional point of view – two of the least enjoyable gigs I’ve played, for different reasons, and two or three of the most enjoyable. All of the latter were at The 13th Note in Glasgow and in different configurations (a solo set and band set – with Jim Dead & The Doubters – on the same night; an all-electric solo set at the first That Devil Music for over a year and Dog Moon Howl’s first gig – my first full-on rock gig in over a decade).
Anyway, that’s this year’s live work all finished up, barring any last-minute bookings, with next year set to be very busy indeed with both solo and band gigs. In fact, Dog Moon Howl is already set to play a couple of January dates, as special guests of English metal band Morpheus Rising who are out on their first national tour in January in support of debut studio album ‘Let The Sleeper Awake’. Dog Moon Howl will be support for both Scottish gigs (Bannerman’s, Edinburgh 14th and The 13th Note, Glasgow 15th).
In the meantime I have a fair bit of video to trawl through, from solo gigs at The Ferry and The 13th Note, as well as from the Dog Moon Howl gig. Highlights from these will be uploaded to the Craig Hughes YouTube channel throughout December, during which I promise to make some kind of effort to blog properly. Honest.
