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I’m back, but I’m buuuuusy

I landed back in London from LA on Tuesday evening and, after dinner with The Father, I tumbled to bed. Today, however, and for the next two months, I’m non-stop. Concerts, recordings, new stuff to learn, meetings, some stuff to write… and more traveling! It’s absolutely brilliant and definitely the right problem to have, but the great thing with being away is that it gives you a natural excuse to leave email unanswered, not return a phone call, not run to everything everywhere. But back home? Totally different story. I’m now slowly wading through a backlog of tracks I didn’t get … Continued

Live from Twitter, SF 5.45pm PST

Tonight, I will be performing Terminal live from Twitter HQ in San Francisco! Although it is a private event for Twitter and some guests, we are streaming it live from this site with thanks to justin.tv. If you’re out and about, don’t worry, they have a killer iPhone app, so you can watch it on the go. A higher quality version will be available early next week, along with some other things from the trip! Watch live video from Peter Gregson’s Channel on Justin.tv …or head over to my channel at Justin.tv to chat with other viewers during the performance!

(Princeton > Boston) Now I’m in NYC

Following my Amtrak fiasco the other day (I’m not going into it – too many memories) I got to Princeton and got my stuff all sorted at my hotel just off Nassau Street, which is apparently the only hotel in town. A little jaunt to the only Starbucks, and I was ready to hit the only music department. Turns out Princeton isn’t that big, but it is really nice, especially when it’s sunny… even supposing the local colour is orange.

UoM

I arrived, tired but happy, into Washington Dulles on Monday night, and then spent Tuesday (yesterday), at the University of Maryland, meeting their staff and students with Greg Sandow. It’s a terrific place, lots of really exciting people and ideas and a buzzing undercurrent of excitement for new things. I was doing a concert of all British music on the electric cello (including some surreptitious tracks from Terminal) with “The Words on The Wall” style live tweeting. As usual, the comments were a mix of live opinion and opinions, but what was really great was programming the concert live as … Continued