I've been so busy the last few months, finally some free time to rest. The site upgrade was a big effort, I had grown comfortable with how it was going so that makes it harder. But it's important to keep pushing forward. I had it all planned out, it would be all ready before the big Isle of Wight show.

So it was announced on Janice Long's show but Benton mentioned that he had heard it but thought it was sorted out since it was still promoted on the official site. I had seen a few anonymous comments saying he wouldn't play but no one actually submitted a story or emailed me about it, so I assumed it was happening even though it seemed strange no other shows were announced.

Shortly after the site release was a big project at work, the Yahoo! Music Engine beta (download here). It's a full featured music player/organizer and subscription service. I don't use these things too often and I hardly ever hear this stuff mentioned on the site. Does anyone use these services? Morrissey fans are not the most tecnically savvy in general but I know there are some who are. I wouldn't normally but now that I have I see it has some very cool features. I only had some small involvement with it, the guys that did the bulk of the work are a team of amazing programmers. It's been kept low key, but it should be publicized more later this year.

All of the latest Sanctuary / Attack releases are available, such as Nancy Sinatra, James Maker and Remma. Stuff I hadn't picked up. I used to go out and buy everything Morrissey related but nowadays find that cd shopping is low on the list of priorities. Anyway, I can see how this could be the future. I saw a glimpse of it in the past - when Napster was at its height if there were any song you wanted to hear you could pretty much find it. Like listening to the radio and being able to have the song right away by choosing it. And you can listen to other people's collections through instant messenger.

Other than that I have been working on a huge promotion which was just released called Pepsi Smash. Remember the show that Morrissey cancelled last year? It all ties together.