The law of diminishing returns

I've just spent the evening at London's "premier" acoustic night. I always thought that coming to London would result in me seeing a lot of incredible acoustic acts that would make me feel jealous and want to improve my game to get into their league and enjoy their level of success. I find myself feeling slightly disappointed this evening - there seem to be a lot of artists who are very mediocre - they are competent at playing guitar and they can sing in tune and they write lyrics that rhyme and seem to access some level of meaning - but that's it.

And there are just SO MANY OF THOSE. There are so many average heartfelt acoustic acts singing about their angst and their love lives and their.. well that's it. Am I one of these? Is this what people hear when they hear me perform? It's frightening to think that these people think that this is what will propel them to success - are they following the philosophy that "if I just keep doing this long enough someone will spot me?" or perhaps it is "I'm just singing the songs that I write that mean the most to me". This is all very well, but is it any wonder that people are reticent to come to these evenings of acoustic music when the offering is so mundane and....

I am tired now - I have been drinking beer and it's late so I'll go to bed.

I am going to have to do something a little more interesting on this CD if people are going to want to play it to their friends I think. Food for thought.

One artist you should definitely check out is fraser anderson who was playing this evening. Exceptional - I almost got a bit envious http://www.myspace.com/fraseranderson

A crackhead type character asked me for money on the tube tonight. I said no, then he asked me the date. When he got up to get off the train I noticed his trousers were half falling down, although he had another pair underneath. Cunning.

I'm off to bed. I seem to be suffering from a bit of insomnia in the last few months - I suspect angst over my direction and what I'm doing etc etc - hopefully I will get a good nights sleep tonight although the beer and the feeling of swimming in a sea of acoustic mediocrity may cause me to wake up at 4am again.

Goodnight
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