Hey all,

We have finally got ourselves organised and are writing new songs at a good pace.  Pretty much everything we are doing is recorded so I am sure we'll feed you something soon if you play nicely.  We are taking a little break from gigging, although if something good comes up we probably won't be able to resist.  You can be sure that if we do end up projecting our noises somewhere we'll inform you of when and where we do so, and we'll make sure that it's not on a school night.

Love to all.  See you soon.

Jx

We had a fun time playing at the Good Ship last night.  This time around there were no power cuts, no beer filled amps and no big gaps in the set.  It went very smoothly, in fact, and I am pretty sure we'll be playing there again in the next few months or so.

Thanks to Matt Glover of the Sincere Deceivers for opening the night with some of his original material master works! We also massively enjoyed Kite Asylum who had some excellent original tracks, tight harmonies and sweet tones and licks from the Strat playing guitarist.  Wonderful stuff.  The Occasionals also had some good fresh tracks and given that it was only their second gig they were impressively tight.

We'll be announcing some more gigs soon so watch this space.  Thanks for coming along last night and creating an atmosphere in the Good Ship.  More good times to follow.

MTx

Given the chaotic nature of last Saturday's build up to our gig at The Bowery, none of us really expected that we would have one of the best nights we have had as a band.

We want to say a big thank you to everyone who came along to see us jump around on stage for 35 minutes, and a further thank you to those of you who joined in the jumping.  Twas a lot of fun to play to thrash out our songs in front of so many happy faces.

Next up, a return to The Good Ship in Kilburn. Join us there if you can, and bring your phones/cameras/recording devices so that you can 'flash' us whilst we are doing some more jumping around.

Much love to all

MTx

Hey all,

Firstly, promo stuff.  Take a look at the gigs page and join us at The Bowery in Central London this Saturday, or The Good Ship in Kilburn on the 30th March.

Secondly, I just wanted to talk about MT's weekend as it was full of all of the above (in the title).

It started with Will getting on a train at 07:56 on Saturday morning.  He met me at my London dwelling (basement flat...) and we set up a studio in my room to record some music.  Following the arrival of James and Dom, we set about recording this music (more details about what we were recording to follow...).  This involved the microphones and stands that we had (temporarily) stolen from a studio in Hackney, the kitchen pan, instrument cases, two computers, two different audio interfaces and many many cables.

We have no idea about the outcome of our efforts.  The different instrument tracks will be combined and who can say what it'll sound like?  Whatever happens we will definitely pass it on to our faithful friends at some point in the not too distant future.

Following this odd musical excursion, we travelled to a Studio in East London to flesh out some new songs.  This went pretty well and you can expect to hear some new material at one of the next few gigs.  We are all quite excited about how the new tracks are coming together and we'd love to share them with you when they're ready.

See you all soon, if not this Saturday!

J

...is to play more gigs and make more music.  It should be a simple enough thing to achieve. 

On the gigs front we have a couple in our diary that we would advise you enter into yours.  First up is a show at the MONTO WATER RATS in the Kings Cross area, London.  This is on Tuesday 24th Jan so it is a last minute affair!  It is free to all who accept the Facebook event. The next one after that will be on the 25th February at THE BOWERY in London.

On the music front, we have been having a few writing sessions in Jamie's new London flat, and for once we haven't been surrounded by all of our gear.  It has been a fairly stripped back affair with lots of weird but wonderful computer based sounds mixing in with clean (and sometimes not so clean) guitar noises.  The musical ideas have been plentiful, and we hope that they start magically forming songs very soon.  We hope.  And pray...

We all hope to see you at a gig/for a pint soon.  January will be less miserable this way.

MTx

PS: hands up who read our 'best of 2011' email and has made it to this point?  You have done too much reading and should now go and sleep.