Our first official tour stop was Brighton at the Cowley Club - a collectively run and operated venue/bookstore/open space. Neil Sutherland and JG Harding joined us on this one. The cowley club is apparently under heavy financial stress at the moment, so I urge everyone to go and check it out if you are local - its a friendly environment and establishments like this are essential for likeminded people to gather and organise.
Luke from Break The Habit put us up for the night and took us to the local "rock" club for some dancing, power ballads and drinking. Thanks Luke.
The next day we drove Neil back to London and went to pick up our CDs that should have been delivered in time for the Brighton show. Apparently they had been delivered to our next door neighbours (who leave the house in the early morning and don't get home till the late evening) so we crossed our fingers that someone would be in to give us the CDs before we drove to Cambridge. Their cleaner was in, who ignored our repeated attempts to get her to answer the door. Eventually we resigned ourselves to the fact that our box of CDs was impossible to reach and so we got ready to leave for Cambridge. Just as we were about to get in the car, our neighbour turned up and saved the day. Awesome!
Sam Russo put on the Cambridge show and as it was his birthday the turn out was awesome. Sometime Never Headlined and smashed it but I think the night belonged to Sam who just played his heart out to a packed room of people. He just keeps getting better and everyone really needs to see him live.
We have played Glasgow before on our last tour at an acoustic show in a cafe. I was really sick that day and the whole time we were in Glasgow was a bit of a blur so it was good good to come back and see the city through healthy eyes and lungs and play again, with drums. Kenny and Sarah of This Is Our Battlefield put us up and fed us and put on a great show with some local acts, Citizens and Grozny. A very mixed bill and a good turnout meant the ghosts of my last visit were put to rest. Thanks again to Kenny and Sarah, especially for the personalised cakes.
Newcastle is one of my favourite places to play, despite having only played there once before while sick (see above). Mark (Newcastle Get Rad Crew) and JC (Discount Horse) always put on well attended shows with awesome line ups. Their format of electric/acoustic/electric/acoustic line ups worked a treat again and showed again that larger, mixed bills can work and that diversity keeps things interesting. This was easily one of the best line ups we have played on - High Risk Existance, Fashanu (first gig), Mega games 2, Pure Graft and Onsind. Despite having to play a shorter set before having to get out before the club night started, it was awesome fun.
Harry from Beneath The Blaze (pictured below) put us on next in Hull, so we drove South with JC in tow who decided to tag along with us a for a few days. Hull was nothing like I thought it would be, although I was asleep in the car when we came in, and it was dark when we left. We'll leave it at that. The gig was good fun and we drove to the Mega Games 2 house after to stay the night.
The last show on this leg was in York at the City Screen Basement Bar. The line up was almost entirely acoustic and low-key and we both started to feel awkward about our amps and drumset being the complete opposite of everyone that had played prior to us. JC stepped in for the MG2 as Murf got sick and played a blinder of a set as "Winona Forever" with Harry on Melodica for the last song. Our apprehensions about playing with drums seemed to be needless though - there was no mass exodus when we played and I think we went down ok. You just can never, ever assume anything about how a gig is going to go I guess.
Then it was back to the Mega Games house for some beers and a late night stroll into town with JC at 3am and then a 4 hour drive home at 11am in the morning. We head back out for the last few dates in a few hours - Norwich, Peterborough and Manchester. Theres more photos from the tour here
17.03.09
It feels like forever since we started recording the new EP and even longer since we started writing it. Its so easy for these things to take a lifetime when you get side tracked by working, playing shows and the usual day-to-day stuff we get bogged down by but its done now. It feels like we can finally breath a little easier and start focusing on what's next, finally. The new Ep, Two Sticks and Six Strings is available from the "shop" link above from our online store as well as our previous effort, Done. We're streaming the first song "100 Club" on our Myspace page now.
We go on tour now for about 2 weeks around England and up to Glasgow in Scotland. Its our longest tour and the only one we have done on our own without our usual tour tag-team partner Sam Russo. It should be good fun - we get to play with some really awesome bands and good friends whilst we're away and the 1000 miles of driving and lack of sleep will be completely worth it. If you want us to play your venue, party or whatever, let us know.
This site is still sort of "in the works" - we'll be adding stuff and keeping it up to date so please keep checking back, we'll be making an effort to put photos and news up regularly from our shows.
Now we pack the car up and drive to Brighton to play the Cowley Club with Neil Sutherland and JG Harding. Good times. Dan
Hi. We now have T-shirts and bags for sale. Ema (who did our CD artwork) hand screened them herself a few weeks back before we went to Switzerland. The shirts themselves were leftovers from a t-shirt printing stall that Ema ran at Truck Festival so the number of different sizes and colours is a little random. These shirts are not sweatshop free, despite the claims of the wholesaler who sold them and so we will be donating £2 per shirt to No Sweat, an active movement against sweatshops worldwide. No Sweat have been campaigning and putting on events to raise money and awareness of these issues and we're pleased to be involved with them and
