Q. Andy,
Your Monstrance project with Barry and Martyn seems to have acquired some legs. Best thing you've done in years, I'd say.

Have you any plans to go further with it or has it served its purpose by scratching that particular musical itch?

And if there are further plans, would they include live performance?
That's two questions...

Yours in celery,
Cardinal Biggles

A. Prendiville,Prendiville,he's the mayor of Splendiville.
Thankyou for the compliment old fruit,and yes i'd like to go further with it.

As in expanding the line up a little.Barry and I have spoken of maybe an acoustic bass player and/or a trumpeter.Who knows,the gateway to a whole galaxy of improvised mayhem might just have swung open.

I think we've ruled out live for the simple reason that only about a fifth of what we do is anygood,the rest is binned.

That wouldn't auger well for a live audience,ten minutes or so in every hours performance being ok,the rest ouch.
Andy