Untruths | July 2025.

Entries for June have now been moved to an archive.
Don't worry if you missed them, it was all rubbish.

July 1st:
Well, here we go with another new month. It's all stress in my world at the moment. I'm worried about the band, because our drummer isn't too well at the moment, because of some treatment he's having, which is really wiping him out. We are supposed to start gigging on July 11th. We do get to rehearse on the 10th.

I got a few emails that showed purchases on our Amazon account for xbox vouchers, this afternoon. Straight away I disputed these with Amazon. The last couple of days have seen me have to change my Facebook password a couple of times, after some spam images appeared on my Instagram page, but today I got the message that an Instagram account that I use is breaking rules and has to be suspended. Meta also closed down my Facebook account, as it was linked to that page. Fortunately, I had a safety backdoor set up in case of something like this happening, with admin rights granted on the few pages that I run. It's a good job that I had set it up. I have opened a new Facebook account (which I will not be linking to anything else) and am adding most of the people back in. It's a good chance to get rid of a few people and to make my own rather unimportant web presence a lot more low key. I've got nearly all of my admin rights back in place, just a group and a page to sort out with other established admins.

July 2nd:
The two-step authentication on my Amazon account isn't working properly, stopping us from getting into Amazon (more stress), so I had a few phone calls with Amazon in India to get them to remove it. The password change will have to do as protection. Slowly getting Facebook friends back. I am keeping my new Facebook profile as low key as possible.

July 5th:
A couple of days of fixing and replacing things. The vinyl LP version of The Three's album has turned up. I've started compiling a 'best of' of my own stuff to get pressed up as I have a £30 credit voucher..

I gave the vinyl LP a quick listen. It sounds really good. I have mixed feelings about it though, as not all three of the band were interested in recording an album. Or learning the new songs, so that we could sell the album at our shows. As albums go it's good but it got a premature burial rather than any sort of launch. I ended up playing all the guitars on five of the nine songs on the album, or they would never have been finished. I revised the rear cover art to reflect my own efforts on the album.

July 6th:
Today would have been my 40th wedding anniversary with my first wife Julie, had she not passed away in 1986.

Back in the present day, Facebook is not behaving as it should. I can't send friend requests. My tactic to deal with this problem is not to particularly care about it. I have much bigger things to worry about.

July 7th:
Last night's jam night went very well. Our friend Stu played guitar for us. I spoke to Graham today about how it all went. We discussed the way forward. He is going to put the suggestion to the venue owner of 1 week The Three / 1 week us with Stu / 1 week a.n. other jam band. It was put to us that our old guitarist alternated weeks with us. Graham contacted him about this, but he never respoinded, so he's not having alternate weeks, even though it's been leaked from his end that he is doing the other weeks, he absolutely isn't. We are busy sorting out the line-up for this weekend. It looks like our friend Nigel will be helping on drums on Friday as Graham needs to rest up a bit. Rather than cancel Saturday, Graham says he will play. Nigel will be helping on drums on Sunday

July 10th:
It's been a difficult few days. I've been fending off cyber attacks, with various accounts getting hacked. I've spent a lot of time and some money getting things back to normal. Ferdous, if you're reading this - sorry to reclaim my Netflix account and deprive you of it. I know you'll be missing it.

The band take to the stage again this weekend for the first time in what seeems like an age. We have help with drums on both nights as Graham went into hospital yesterday. He says he might be out of the game for a few months. We couldn't rehearse on Wednesday, so I have to admit to being very slightly nervous about this weekend (naturally). Not worried enough to cancel anything though, as we do have to start up again.

I spoke to Graham in the evening. He's having surgery tomorrow in Salford.

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