This month’s podcast is out, featuring Department of Homeland Security, part three of the Squid Roast trilogy. The trilogy is somewhat of a murder-mystery. Part One of the series, Straight, Boy, sets the stage via one of the main protaganists’ woolgathering – an instrumental version of this song featured in the podcast last summer. A full version will be on the next Sound of The Ladies recording. Part Two, Every Single One, is the deranged tale of the events during a fateful night of revelry, via an almost certainly unreliable and possibly dead narrator, and was on the podcast a few months ago. Part Three, Department of Homeland Security, takes place in the aftermath, beginning with the discovery of a body on the beach, and following the attempts to unravel the mystery by someone lacking both the ability and desire to do so. But with an overactive imagination. This trilogy structure is a new idea for me, but I just couldn’t fit the whole story into one song!

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This is the last you’ll hear from me for a couple of weeks, as I sojourn in the US – but I’ll be sure to note points of interest at @martinaustwick on Twitter. So far, Mount St Helens (which erupted on my second birthday, fact fans), the shooting locations for Twin Peaks and Northern Exposure (Snoqualmie, North Bend and Roslyn, WA) and any shops stocking the Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins are on my “to do” list. Any other suggestions gratefully accepted.