This time last night I was lying in the woods, in the rain, in layers of warm clothes, staring at the opening of a badger's den. Thinking that it might mask our own noise, we were thankful for the sound of rain. I don't know if it wasn't enough, but badgers never arrived. we'd heard from a reliable source that wild animals are blind to light shone through a red filter at night. Maybe an eerie red light glaring from through the trees could seem discouraging. it was a good excuse to go sit in the forest in the dead of night and be reminded what the world sounds like really, underneath our audio litter. I'm still a bit travel sick from the bus ride home. sick four hours there and four hours back. like a right of passage to and from the underworld. My friends' little hut on the west coast. It's one of my favourite places. Like a tree house on the ground. no electricity. or running water. just a log fire and a gas cooker, and a water pump for pumping water that collects in a barrel from the roof. and a view like the most fantastic flying dream. Tree tops and water, land far enough on the other side to change through Scottish weather like songs shift on the radio. log baskets that must be filled. there are primal things of lifting and chopping and burning normally stolen from us under illusions of short cuts and conveniences. Dials or push buttons. but I do love my laptop. and digital camera. and pizza sometimes and coffee. and stuff. yes I love the stuff too. what do we do? sit in the mud and say I have rid myself of worldly desire. want for nothing, wait for enlightenment? there is a lot I can do without. and there's something about cutting up wood and putting it on a fire. to warm water. to cook. that stuff. we planted oak trees that will be growing 300 years after I'm dead. When it's so hard to be sure of anything, it's comforting to think 'planting trees is a good idea'. and to spend a weekend tending those you planted last year is a good idea too. it's dawning on me too that this record that I've started making, like the spindly oak trees in plastic tubes, is really another seedling from the hut on the west coast, and what a lovely place for a record to be born.
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hey hey hows u??? i deleted my myspace, miss ur songs, theres always utube my fav videos are fine fine waitress, butcher, old men, n a letter to gordon brown!!!
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Good Times
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Ainslie, when's Beanscene fun happening again?
I did wonder where you had gone to Mr Henderson
. Im still loving the songs 
Hi Ainslie!
luv the songs on ur album! and the songs you wrote in the academy
I Need Reminded and Dust on ur album are my faves
Coming Up For Air is awesome too!
Any gigs in Glasgow soon? x
hey ainslie
just wondering if u've got any gigs in glasgow coming up soon??? missed the drawing room lastime aaaaargh!
x
run away with me?
Hey,
Just had an urge to pop on and saying hello.
Don't know why, just felt like it.
Hmm.
x
Hi ainslie,
i was wondering if you are doing any gigs in glasgow anytime soon?
my little ears want to hear your lovely music live and its a pitty because it has been such a long time....
it would be very kind of you if you could let me know if you are if aren't too busy.
Dominique
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Ainslie! I actualy loved u! My granny got ur signature in the jedburgh co-op, thats where i used to stay! My real dad also works beside ur mum in the kiltmakers, and u used to work beside my uncle chris! I also went to jedburgh grammer school...like u!! U were amazin at the fame acadamy tour stil hav ur sngs on thee ipod! U and malachi werf so funy, especialy as the old me! X x x x
If Braes basement won't take you...RoSeangle basement will
Either way, Dundee needs some Ainslie...
OK I am slightly confused....
On your official website it says your playing a gig in Dundee in October. I called the venue to see how to get tickets.....and they didn't even know about it.......
HELP ME!! I want tickets!!!!
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hey ainslie
) I am emailing jo whiley as we speak 2 get u in live lounge - would love that!! (but if u get on radio 1 because of my email u so need 2 come 2 my 30th next year 
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I no u said u never check this but thought i'd leave u a wee message anyway!! thought u were amazin last night (sorry for acting so stalkerish
keep smiling and having fun - i'm off 2 order my mug now...make it a good yin
xyx
See u at sauchiehall street on the 22nd