Hopefully some of you will be pleased to hear that as of from the next music post FawcettMade is to go live as it’s own succinct site thereby allowing this, my own personal blog the become just that once again.

I never imagined when posted my first open mic night recording, nearly a year ago, which was literally just a try-it-and-see thing how much it would invade and take over the blog - leaving little time and space for my usual (lets face it fairly points, though it IS a blog) Apple-fanboy posts and reposts. Most of these though have happily found a home on my Tumblog. Nearly a year on and it’s time to give the music its own home. There is to date a total of .. err well, many many hours of recordings. I can’t say for sure how many, but I can say over 66,000 downloads or plays.

We (That is to say Jon and I, Jon is the other soundman and he does all the mixing) are to take this opportunity to try and rationalise some of this recording in the hope of making it all better quality.

Firstly we are doing less open mics; The first and third Wednesday of the month, also only the second open mic of the month will be recorded and only new sets will go on the site. If you are part of a band and want a night at The Fawcett Inn then open mic is the perfect opportunity to let us hear you but please leave contact us by leaving a comment below or via Myspace or Facebook, addresses for which can be found on my Fawcett page. All other Wednesdays of the month will be open DJ night, another great chance to us your stuff and have a potential night DJing at The Fawcett Inn. Some of these nights may be broadcast live at the usual Ustream page.

You can keep up to date with all this on the calendar which can also can be found on my Fawcett page.

I won’t be removing any old recordings .. yet anyway, if space or bandwidth becomes an issue then it may become necessary. You’ll be able to find all the old stuff ever on my Fawcett page.

Silverstone was fantastic, if a little wet.

For the trip up, left at Portsmouth 2am (so as to avoid the traffic) as it turns out we maybe left too early and arrived at about 4.30am without encountering any mass traffic. Though I wasn’t too bothered as that was only 30 minutes before gate opening time and left a mere 4 hours before the first race.

On gates opening the clearly experienced F1 fans who didn’t have stand tickets ran for their favourite spots around the track - having to sit there for the four hours until the first race - definitely the hardcore.

We had a wander around the track starting at the F1 Village then heading clockwise via our seats at Stowe C and back to the entrance, passing maybe the first race of the day on the way.

The F1 Village is unsurprisingly basically a big food and merchandise market including teams cars and various other promotional fun.

So onto the races and the weather: first up was the GP2 which wasn’t too wet and was the first loud cars. I’m not too sure who was who as I don’t really follow the GP2 much but it was a good race with some close battling and a few cars going off track or coming together near us; Next was a Porsche cup which was wetter but with surprisingly few incidents and I have even less idea of who was who.

After the drivers parade and The Red Arrows came the main event, this time the stands were full and I won’t try and do a blow-by-blow review of the race as we all know what happened and I’m not a good writer so I won’t torture anyone much longer. The rain came and went, never really being very heavy and then completely cleared to bright sunshine about 20 minutes from the end.

After the mass evacuation of the stands following the race we hung around a for an hour or so to try and let the traffic ease and then went. The traffic wasn’t too bad - about an hour from Silverstone to the M40 - then home.

F1 Silverstone 2008 - a set on Flickr