Slovenia's daily Zurnal has run a recent interview with me where I discuss working on the new album, Elite Nylon, and a possible live return to one of my favourite countries in the world... see it all here: http://www.zurnal24.si/cms/magazin/vip/index.html?id=59045

Link: http://www.rockbaren.com

I am keenly looking forward to getting the hell outta Dodge (that's London) to play an acoustic set next week in Gothenburg... all the action (acoustic action) will unfold at a club I have played before, Rock City's Rockbaren:

www.rock-city.se & www.rockbaren.com
Kristinelundsgatan 14,
41137 Göteborg

10 PM. Featuring several new songs of the 'Reckoning' Ltd. Ed. album, of which a few numbered & signed copies will be on sale...

It should be said that this gig would not happen if it wasn't for the amazing efforts and dedication of my good good friend Janne Prusti from Goteborg's Chuck Norris Experiment.

Incidentally, I should add that I am quite disgusted at the fees increase that Ryanair is charging for musical instruments. In retrospect it might have been cheaper to book my Gibson an extra seat than to pay another 25 pounds...

But hey a good Neil Leyton day isn't complete without some level of complaint or another, huh? 'Tis in my nature.

Last night in bed, however, I though of a good quote that I once read in John Cougar Mellencamp's Lonesome Jubilee album... and it shall be my motto for this London weekend prior to the Sweden trip. Sit down for this, as I don't often quote from religious texts and generally consider them to be quite dull. With that disclaimer in hand, I can appreciate and share the beauty of this passage...

"What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing...

...There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour." - Ecclesiastes I & II

Alright, so I haven't quite mastered the HTML editing of my template. No header picture for you! Not yet... makes me feel a little dumb, actually. Argh. Anyways, so what: I turned my attention to less frustrating endeavours...

Today I added the Reckoning digital album to Neil Leyton online, for all those souls who ordered the original CDR version back in November - they can now download the new version with bass added by Chris McDougall (of White Russians) with a special percussion cameo by Ana Isa, too. All free to Leyton supporters of course!

More, the Passion'd Flower compilation that I have been mastering is almost out via Fading Ways Canada as well as the FW Music Store. Check it:

I have to say, all these years later, that Passion'd Flower remains my most intense band experience. We never sold out clubs like The Conscience Pilate, were never really focused enough to attempt a 'career', but that's not what it was about anyways. This band was about music... jamming in the basement... living life to the fullest.

Which, incidentally, is exactly what I am up to this year... things DO come full circle...

Sad to say, but recently at the ORG's Creative Business seminar I realized just how much of a non-techie retrogarde I actually am. I have never operated my own blog. Guilty! So, I plan on remedying this situation immediately and have just installed b2evolution all on my own. Aren't you proud of me? No? O well. Just wait 'til I figure out how to add a photo of my living room... you will be. O yes. You will be. For now, here is a photo of me, taken by Kat Scott, of me IN the living room: This will also, incidentally, be the tour poster for the upcoming 'Reckoning' acoustic tour...