I guess it's about time

So here I am, VERY nervously starting my own blog.

My reason for joining the ranks, albeit on the lowest rung of the blog-o-sphere , is because of course I like to talk about stuff! mainly music stuff, but stuff in general too. (Although in all honesty my past 'talking' has been literally talking about stuff Live on air,or on voice chat, or at a presentation, rather than committing anything to paper or webpage in any great detail and I am pretty sure my 140 character limit on twitter does not count.

With vast experience of being a terrible typist ( ie typo IS my middle name) and a penchant for the Exclamation mark!!!!!!!!! and brackets ( lets get those out of the way right now.) I do hope you the reader will in some small part of your heart understand that this post did take me HOURS to spellcheck before publishing.


Ok I am lying..


it has spellchecker inbuilt..


where was I?


If you are not familiar with 'Slim Warrior' it is the name I gave my avatar when I joined Second Life some 1795 days ago.
that works out at
= 43080 Hours
= 2584800 Minutes
= 155088000 Seconds

or of course 4 Years, 11 Months, and 0 Days.

A pretty good day to start a blog I thought.

It's also the day I decided to leave Second Life

I was the 1st British musician to perform live in SL ( 2nd female) and being in a group of perhaps 8 musicians in total in SL back in 2005 to being one of many hundreds now, it certainly changed my life and mostly for the better.

Probably most will not notice the absence of another red haired avatar, but I will at times, miss those pixels and prims and the fun I had arranging them into a representation of me.

I will also selfishly regret the loss of my island Menorca a music events island , it has hosted so many shows and been the starting point for many musicians coming into Second Life and performing in an online environment for the first time, or online at all for that matter!

Almost nothing beats that sense of achievement or that shout of excitement coming from a musician streaming in Live on air for the first time, That collective 'You did it!' reverberating in your headphones/ speakers, from someone hundreds of miles away on another timezone, who will now be able to make their music heard globally.

Its a GREAT feeling and I cherish each of those moments that I was able to help :)
and No , I am not going to give that up. but I won't be doing it in SL any more.

Parts of my blog I will dedicate to covering my almost 5 years of being in SL, covering Venues/ Shows ,Musicians, as that was always an integral part and reason for me being there, but I will also be touching on new virtual worlds and my involvement with Music and online performances.. I may even bring up and post a few interviews I have had the pleasure of doing with musicians over the years for you to peruse at your leisure.

I will cover new online performance spaces that you can discover and hopefully go and enjoy and maybe now and again ,break out an exclusive here :)


I will also at some point probably ramble aimlessly given my mood of the day, but do give me a chance, I'm just n00b here :)


Slimmie