I've started this blog because I looked at the Betika website (http://www.betika.co.uk) this morning and realised that I haven't updated the diary section since March 2004. It worries me that this makes me look like either a very lazy person or one who leads a very dull life, or both. I hope I'm not either. In reality, I seem to cram pretty much every waking hour with some kind of creative activity, musical or otherwise, and the task of documenting this is always the one that is set aside for some future rainy day that never comes. It always gets pushed further and further down the list of priorities until the thing I intended to write about is just a distant memory, or alternatively so much has happened that I can't even think where to start the mammoth undertaking of recording it all. So I'm setting this up and making a belated new-year's resolution to keep it up to date, hoping that the ease of use of the blog will make it less time-consuming than the process of creating, editing and uploading webpages- I'm making it sound like the Twelve tasks of Hercules, but time is my most precious and scarce resource at the moment, and this seems like a good way of making the whole business that little bit quicker and easier.
As with the old diary on the Betika site, the other band members will be posting here as and when they feel the need.
Dave
