I edited into a montage some of the footage we shot during our live session on Alan Thompson's Evening Show for BBC Radio Wales. The thing plays over our song What It Takes, which seemed kind of appropriate.

Van Gogh made the artistic choice not to show the Goddess in one of his last and greatest paintings, cornfield with crows, but you would have to be virtually blind not to notice her. The painting gives one an unbearable sense of imminent death. The paths lead nowhere, the horizon looks like the end of the world, and those crows: the birds of Rhiannon (see: Mabinogion). 

In the humble cartoon on the left, we see another cornfield with crows. This time the artist was not in the mood for symbolism: there she stands, fierce and magnificent.

Nice picture of a pop-mythology redhead with pet.

Indeed, so undaunted does Little Red Sonja appear by the looming figure, that we are forced to conclude the two are in cahoots. The outstretched claw seems to be directed towards whomever is attempting to face the duo down off-screen. Perhaps it is us, the viewer.

Sonja certainly looks like she can take care of herself, but besides her prowess (sword), the background figure emanates from her as a further warning to the challenger: I may look kind of cute, but cross me and I will visit seven kinds of hell upon you.

Most significanly, the picture reminds me of the backdrop image on our Myspace page: two sides of the same coin co-existing in an uneasy and fragile truce.

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Roy Noble did us the honour and kindness today of opening his BBC Radio Wales show with the live recording of 'Meant For Me' that we performed yesterday on the Evening Show. Listen to his marvelous introduction and exceedingly kind words after the song on the BBC iPlayer here.

Check out the studio version of 'Meant For Me' on the Mp3 page of this web-site.

It was a tremendous experience to be doing the live session with the lovely Alan Thompson (with Rhi in photo) on his Evening Show last night. Thank you, Darren, for making us feel at ease and welcome and thank you, Simon, for creating a great sound. It was a special evening for us.

You can check out the broadcast on the Evening Show homepage. Click on the Monday option by the BBC iPlayer section. We were on air between 7:30 and 8:30, playing the tracks "Make It Look Real", "Hurt Me", "Undeserving" and "Meant For Me" in that order. The rest of the show featured some great oldies by Prefab Sprout and REM.