It really was a great feeling to be able to finish off a year of big changes by bringing together so many friends, new and old, under one roof. Even better that it was in the New Musical Box studio in Fritwell and an opportunity to see the space being used as we'd envisged it a year ago when it was a half finished office space.

A big thanks you to everyone who came, to the students who christened the performance space in the main room and for everyone who stayed to see myself, Tim, Sian and Will performing at the end. Having the band miked up in the soundproofed live room, with all the guests listening through the studio monitors in the Control Room may have seemed par-for-the-course for most of you there, but was a fantastic benchmark to reach for those of us who had seen the studio develop over the course of the year to what it is today.

A special thanks also goes out to Andy and Alex who run Green Farm and helped so much throughout the setup and really went the extra mile in the week before the party.

I'm now looking forward to our next get together in Easter and onwards to the Summer. How about that Summer music festival Andy!?

All the best - James