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I think I’ll call this day international sunny-jordan day, today

Radio interview
Just finished an interview for the Spanish radio station rem.fm, which went really well. I am amazed at how well moleaware has gone around the world to be honest and how many people have been inspired by my key strokes. I never thought people would have responded as well as they have and I know you make your own luck and so I really do want to make it work and get detection taken seriously. Waste away on the nine to five, or stand up for what you believe is right, I know which path I want to take for the next few years.

I think there’s that feeling of the “sun’s really dangerous” going around so everyone is running around protecting the kids and stuff, which is great, but protecting them from what? Because it takes decades to show, if it does show, it’s hard to communicate that melanoma is a real issue, and it needs much more funding on the awareness side, because your eyes are the best form of skin cancer detection technology we have.

Solar Eclipse
Totality in Turkey was, well immense, I got back from the hospital (tell you more about that later) to see on the web, the moon slowly creep in front of the sun. Complete with sunspots, filaments, prominences and the biggest diamond ring you could ever hope to see (even bigger than the 1999 one), the eclipse was spectacular and very moving.

Hospital screw-up (again)
Do I even have cancer, its so abstract because I’m perfectly healthy, the way I get treated at my quote unquote non-cancer clinic doies make me wonder about the focus given to other forms of cancer. I was booked in for what I thought was a regular melanoma check up for today. Seems someone booked me in for ENT again, it’s quite simple but would take me ages to explain. Even though I was upset, I wasn’t about to go screaming the hospital down, it’s hard now to get cross with such things, because life’s too short. Hopefully if all works out I get my check up (2 months late again), in 4 weeks, 20th April.

Luckily nothing is wrong, there are no scan results or anything waiting and as long as I keeping checking my lymph nodes, I’ll be fine, I have to be, the world needs mole awareness and baby taylor needs his uncle Lee. You are more than welcome to join my 2 year No Evidence of Disease party 14th October 2006, 2 years is a big milestone for me and I’ll get there.

Hey guys, swift update here to say that I’m getting ready to take part in an interview about Skin Cancer, on an English speaking radio station, rem.fm in Spain. Visit the site here, and check the listen live link.

I think the solar eclipse has knocked my database connection on moleaware.org …. grrrr

Mainly touring the US and rarely touching her homeland, Imogen Heap defines the English Rose down to every detail, she is in a word lovely and has managed to squeeze into our iPod collections without telling us. Using technology extreamly well she really engages with her fanbase incredibly smoothly and keeps an extensive flicker photo sharing account active. The iGirl for the iAge, very creative and very innovative.

Immi, is sometimes stationed in London, perhaps-maybe, and writes and performs very cutesy, lovely, warm and friendly electronic music, however her vocals aren’t for everyone as I found out in my car once. A string of soundtrack appearences, most recently to the end credits of the fantasy film Narnia, as well as a new album, along with a very cool community focused website and iTunes sleekness has pushed Immi to almost cult status.

Immi introduced each of her instuments as the band

So last night was simply lovely. Immi waltz on stage to introduce her guest, Zoe Keating, who plays haunting music with only her chelo, making use of recording and sampling equipment to layer various sounds of the chelo into an amazingly small but big sound.

Imogen took to her set barefoot, standing upon a fluffy rug she launched into an acapella version of “Just For Now”, even without vocoda’s and computers her voice is strangely unique. If I had to plump for a genre I would have to go post modern, I dunno though it’s the kind of stuff that you wouldn’t think a 25 year old bloke would be listening to and I certainly felt a decade too old again, but what the heck she was charming and very zaney.

It was a very cute set up, stood bare foot on a fluffy rug it was mainly Imogen driving the sound almost alone. Her guest, Zoe featured on a few tracks

Oh look a closer look. This was the first time she had been back in Birmingham for 5 whole years, we loved her, she loved us, she played a Frou Frou and was very charming in between tracks, it was really great.

A Frou Frou track was sliped in there to make up for the lack of touring here, we loved her and she loved Birmingham equally. Normally the encore is something you have to wait for, but Immi told us that she didn’t want to keep us waiting. All in all a very nice night, I felt as if collectively we had made a very zaney crazy friend, you know the kind? To top it off Imogen came right out after the gig to chat with the crowd, try getting that with the X-Factor lot eh?!

What a mouthfull! Yus this gig was prosponed from last year, but it was on for Sunday in the second city, it certainly has been a long time coming and worth every second: The gate is open! It’s not often alos that you are graced with two quality support slots. Nightmare Of You from New York with loads of rythmn, and a band called Captain, with a charming male/female vocal mix.

Delays banner behind stage seting the scene after support from two quality bands. New Yorkers; A Nightmare Of You were first up followed by a band called Captain, both were very good

As the fog cleared my sister snapped this supberb shot of the guys. The light show considering the size of the venue was really bright

Greg here blasting out the hits as well as the new tracks. As you can see here the mic stands had the signature colourful wires from the album cover wrapped around. Valentine, the current single was superb as was the likes of Long Time Coming

And the new album waiting for me when I got home from work tonight … nice!