Not Bad For A Girl: Katie Marie puts her back out

By PRSD, on Thursday, June 18, 2009

Katie Marie Kendo Katie Marie ends up with a bad back and time to catch up with some reading – about the music business, of course

Hey everyone! Had a good week? I’ve had a rather painful time of it, as shortly after I wrote my last article I descided to pull a load of muscles in my back – no not very clever I know!

I was practicing some Kendo with my friend Lewis (or Loooooooooooowis as he is commonly know… well… by me anyway) and got a little too enthusiastic about a particular move which has since resulted in me struggling to keep in an upright position, and getting out of bed each morning is oodles of fun (erm… NOT! lol)

I am happy to report that it does appear to be on the mend, but it’s still giving me jip for most of the day. It does seem though it’s only when things like this happen that you realise how important various parts of your body are, and this week I’ve learnt that backs are rather important things that you can’t do much without! I’ve learnt my lesson and I will try and be a bit more careful next time…..honest

This week I’ve been having to chill out at home and take it easy for most of the week, which has given me time to read lots of music books I never usually get the time to read. I’m reading a fantastic one at the moment by a lady called Ann Harrison called Music: The Business and if you’re a musical person who wants to learn a wee bit more about the business side of music then it’s well worth checking out. I’ve also been wading through some graphic novels, but I wont go off on a sci-fi rant, I think you had plenty of that last week!

On the musical front, I thought that if I’m stuck at home I could get lots of CDs and press packs sent off for various bits and bobs, so I spent most days online either e-mailing peeps or burning CDs – I’ve applied for oodles of stuff from inclusions in Films & TV programmes to festival dates to magazine interviews. So I’m checking my e-mails everyday egerly awaiting a reply from someone, hoping that just that one person will like some of my music– we’ll see…

…and I was ultra organised and booked my plane tickets for Germany! Woohoo!!

So maybe having a bad back wasn’t such a bad thing after all… ok that’s a complete load of rubbish!

But as my back’s been much better today I’ve been in the studio mixing lots of stuff I’ve been meaning to do for ages, such as live tracks we recorded from The Barrel House gig back in April. If you fancy taking a listen to a Marnie & Me track I’ve just uploaded it to our Myspace page. It’s a song we wrote fairly recently called Crazy World and this live version features Alarik doing his funky beatboxing thang! It sounds super dooper good, so check it out when ya get a mo!

So the rest of my week features the usual two More Restaurant gigs on Thursday and Friday and then Saturday afty is my radio show (Acoustic PM) and then Saturday evening I’m gigging with Marnie @ The Bell in Bovey Tracey, should be good!

Hope you have a superb rest of the week and I’ll catch ya next time

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