Bit of a mixed few weeks really. We finally decided to put 'Sleaze' on hold until we could find a better venue, only to launch new night 'Raw' last Tuesday which was a rip-roaring success. Whether they'll all come back next week is another matter, but hopefully we didn't scare everyone too much. The DJ booth in Decade is the best one I've been in in Swansea. Like the Tardis it appears tiny on the outside but is actually really spacious inside.

Glastonbury was really good. I'd say it was exactly as good as last year, not as good as 2000 or 2002 but better than 1999. We had mud which was a novelty but it was still ace, even though I did nearly whitey during Basement Jaxx. Good stuff.

I'm getting so royally fed up with my day job. I know it pays for the rent/bills/food etc. but it really is the epitome of dead-end jobs: burger-flipping customers out of their self-induced messes. I don't think you can work in customer services for long if you're creative, you either end up completely neutered and get absorbed into the same work all week, drink on Friday, watch TV in the evenings mundanity that you started off rebelling against or you end up going a bit nuts and producing stuff like 'Pre-Life Crisis'. My long-term plan is to be able to afford to go part-time in the next 6-9 months but that seems a very, very long way off from where I'm standing. I'd probably be more creative if I joined the army.

Michael Moore has been getting a hell of a slating for manipulating the facts in his new film 'Farenheit 9/11'. Haven't seen it yet but I'm a bit disappointed that someone who produced something as fantastic as 'Bowling For Columbine' could be reduced to paranoid conspiracy theories. I'll get a better idea once I've seen the thing but I hope he gets back on form to produce proper documentaries again soon.

Middle-England and political correspondants are getting their knickers in a twist over the prospect of a UK smoking ban in public places similar to Ireland. The whole concept of a total ban is so thoroughly backward and shows the government is starting to fall into the whole knee-jerk extremism that starts happening when you've been in power so long you've run out of innovative and intelligent ideas and need to whip the voters into a frenzy so they forget about wars, shit transport networks and student debts. Don't get me wrong I believe that passive smoking can be harmful and as someone who works part-time in the entertainment industry this is an issue that affects me but surely the answer is to let the industry regulate itself? Or maybe offering people choice instead of restrictions - make it so venues have to be majority non-smoking with the option of being part smoking. This way pubs might abandon the whole crap open-plan mindset that has ruined the character of so many previously great drinking establishments (like the Royal Oak in Wotton-under-Edge) and start building special smoking rooms. Throw in legalised cannabis and we can really start transforming Friday nights!