TrumpetBoy

I’ve just finished the first stage of converting the Cat Pack website to run from a Wordpress install. The reason for this is to allow the bandleader, Rich, to update most of the content himself.
All in all it went pretty smoothly - the theme functions are great for this purpose. It now runs as a [...]

Spending a fine week in Vienna although we’ve spent it knee-deep in snow! When we arrived on Tuesday, there were various signs of winter but by the time we got out of the first show the snow was already accumulating. It continued throughout Wednesday and Thursday morning so that by Thursday evening, we could see [...]

I find myself packing again today. It seems to be a full time occupation these days. Ho hum….

Thanks go to a good pal of mine, Neil Gordon, for pointing out the problems I was experiencing with my homepage in the last day or so. This, I think, was down to a Wordpress upgrade I had applied. Specifically, I upgraded to the Gamma release of the new Wordpress 1.5. The software itself is [...]

This weekend I’ve taken an unusual step for me - I’ve depped out a couple of shows!! On previous tours I’ve done this hasn’t really been an option so on the Rat Pack 2004 tour I never got around to it. However, in the name of personal sanity, I’ve taken the plunge.