I just got back from a crazy charity event organised by Rosetta Life in collaboration with Brian Eno And Jarvis Cocker: a live internet jam session between children at Great Ormond Street Hospital, a hospice in Portobello, and a home for children suffering from AIDS in South Africa. It was extremely moving and terrifyingly chaotic at the same time. Still, by some miracle the temperamental internet connection finally managed to crank into life just in time for our big song, and everyone had fun. Then a little boy with Teurets Syndrome started setting off all the samples at once and turning every knob in sight up full and hell broke loose. Next time I’m making the keyboard monophonic!

Other than that, there have been lots of little things going on. There was a short acoustic tour with Nik Kershaw – it was so great stripping the synths away and playing those beautiful songs the way they were probably written – on an acoustic guitar. Nik really is an incredible songwriter. Hopefully a proper tour will follow. I’ve also been putting finishing touches to ‘Scene Memory’, my album of textural guitar pieces which is sounding very moody, and working on the tracks I started in New York. I wish there was more time to do my own stuff at the moment, but I’m grabbing all the time I can here and there on trains and in cars.

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