I google myself about once a week. My website always comes up first, but it is some of the other "hits" that have been interesting. Throguh doing that, and then tracing any links and contacting the relevant people, in the last 3 months I found that:

- one of my songs (Bogeyman) was quoted in a thread on a Malaysian website, the subject being "fear"; the "fan" is a 25-year old Malaysian girl who heard my music from internet downloads
- another song (Flowers & Guns) was quoted on a German website, the subject being "peace protests" by an Anglo-German student of engineering in Cologne, who heard someone sing my songs in a Devon pub
- yet another song was quoted on a Swiss website by a Swiss teacher of English, who uses my songs in the classroom (!)
- several of my songs appearing on playlists in New Zealand, Kentucky and Ohio
- and the biggest one of all: knowing my surname to be unique (belonging only to our extended family), I found a branch of the family in New York, that nobody knew about. My third cousin Vassilis is a butcher there, and also (oh, shit!) secretary of the Greek-American Society for the right to bear guns... I spoke with him on the phone, but given his interests I doubt that we will vere become close...