This weekend is looking mighty busy

Google says, on average, about 8 people will come to this site today. Maybe as many as 13, maybe as low as 5. It all depends. On weekends this place is dead, probably because people aren't paid to be stuck behind a computer screen just to make enough money to blow at the weekends on SNES games, or whatever you guys are up to these days. Anyway, thanks for coming today, whoever you are. You are in an elite club today. Say hi.

Right, so this weekend, according to my google calander (jesus, I might as well tattoo google on my face) is looking busy. Ryans Bar tomorrow for a gig with PJ and Gaby, Brighton House show on Friday, gig in Reading Saturday, work all day sunday and then show Ema a good time on Sunday night (which is valentines day, you should know that.) Our car is still dying, but we are, potentially, picking up a van this weekend.

8-0

Thats a smiley for *shock face*. If all goes to plan, we'll be cruising in a sweet van from now on. And yeah, so a van is way less friendly to the planet but have you even seen PJs bass guitar case? THAT THING IS MASSIVE. It literally barely fits into the Xantia Estate car. Photos of the van and us posing around it while looking like a real band very soon. I really want Timmy Westwood to pimp it for us and put in 12 sub-woofers and eleventeen LCD screens in places we just don't need them. That would be awesome.

In other news, despite not being a huge fan of all dayers, Jugs has put together such a sweet line-up that I am super stoked to watch pretty much from start to finish. Well done Jugs, well done. If you haven't met jugs before, this is me, Josh and Jugs, looking stoked below.

Whattaguy.

Laters

Dan

*Edit. We had 14 people here yesterday. Thats enough for a football team and 3 subs. WOLINSKI!

Before we move on.

We recorded earlier this week. More on that later when I upload some photos and more boring videos that show the absolute tedium that is the recording process. The songs we finished sound like they should end up sounding "banging" and stuff by the time the post-recording processes are done. I'm real stoked on them. The art is done for the new record actually, but if I blow all my awesome news shit today then I'll have nothing to post later in the week, you know?

ANYWAY.

Sometime last year we got a small flurry of requests to donate songs to charity releases and that, to me, sounds like a great way to help bring in some money to a worthy cause and also help us to maybe get our songs infront of people who might never have come across us before. Its the sort of situation you can call a "super-sweet-deal" if you were from the 90s and had long hair and a skateboard.

The problem is that we hardly finish songs and at that point, we were in a massive slump in terms of writing songs and so after we agreed to do the first one we had to turn the others down because we just didn't think we'd be able to get it done. I managed to write and demo a song really quick around that time and we ended up recording it at home a few weeks later - the quickest a song has ever come together for us (and likely ever). The charity release never came out on CD though and nothing ever seemed to happen with it all, which really bummed me out because the artwork and line-up on the record was looking kind of cool and I thought we'd have actually had some sort of positive effect for our hard work. Shame. Anyway, before we put out some new songs in a few weeks, I thought I should post up the link to this song, as it never got offered for download in the past and the charity record is obviously never going to happen. If you are feeling charitable, feel free to buy some stuff here and help out the people in Haiti or something.

I Hope This Is Quick.mp3

ps: Grade upped another new song on their website, go listen, it's a banger.

Chow
Dan.

PIRATES!!

I googled our band again today, I do it all the time. Whatever! It's an ego thing, right? Its cool that most of the links from google are to the seven thousand websites that feature lyrics from us and other bands. Do we need that many, really? Why isn't there a huge "itunes" style site with the lyrics from all the songs on it that has the monopoly on this? Monopolies on the internet are great - much easier to find stuff.

Today though, something awesome has happened. After all the effort I go to keep this website up to date and interesting (I cannot claim it to be either though) and we get beaten in the google rankings by a website linking to a rapidshare download of our last record. How the fuck did that happen?!

Still, if you ever wanted our stuff, but didn't want to pay for it* then google us and take the second link.

Which is above our own actual website.

Laters
Pirate Dan.

* We didn't make that hard, by the way, I mean, you pretty much just have to e-mail us and I'd send you the MP3s for free.

RIP Citroen Xantia

Joshs car might be dying. This.is.terrible.news.

For the best part of the last 3 years we have relied on Joshs Citroen Xantia to get us to and from gigs and being more of the car-ignorant type, its not like we really do any maintenence on it and the back seats are slowly filling with crisp wrappers and bottles. Its a miracle that we have never had anything more than a few blow-outs in the thousands of miles its taken us and even though the paintwork is looking less-silver and more-brown each day, it just kept going.

Not so much this year, though.

The in-car radiator died around Christmas, co-inciding with the most snow I have seen in London - no problem - we just wipe the inside of the windcreen everytime it steams or ices up (about every 15 seconds - try doing that all the way to Exeter). The engine has started revving itself and jerking about - no problem - we just cruise through that. Then the coolant pipe exploded - no problem! We gaffa-taped and jubilee clipped the shit out of it and now it stays together (for a while, at least).

I'm not sure how much longer the car can hold itself together and considering its MOT is due relatively soon, it could be game over. Fingers crossed, yeah?

Oh yeah, Exeter and Peterborough last weekend can be summed up in a few bullet points:

• Lots of driving
• Lots of fixing the car
• Excellent food
• 2 fun, if varied shows
• 1 broken amp (now fixed!)

Word.
Dan

Late-fest update.

Hi. I found some videos of our set at Fest on my laptop and figured it was worth the 6 hours of uploading them to share them on the infowebz.

They were filmed on Emas Canon Ixus and not only am I surprised the picture/sound quality is actually ok, I'm also impressed with everyones singing. You totally can't hear "awesome" and "toneful" my singing was.

Sweet

Dan





ps: This is PJ discussing bands and the fonts they use for their logos.

Awesome shows at the wayward from danbondissafe on Vimeo.

Haiti.

I have no idea why someone would read this blog but not be checking Punknews.org on the same browsing session, but in case that has happened, you might not have seen this was posted today.

In response to the earthquake in Haiti, Punknews has arranged an auction of some really awesome and rare vinyl and other shit and all the money is going to help the aid situation in Haiti. Seems like a way to pick up some stuff you would likely buy anyway, whilst helping put a (temporary) roof over someones head. I have nothing funny or cynical to say about this at all.

Check the listings here and please don't outbid me on this auction.

Dan

Mess-tasche.

In recent news, Josh and I are no longer homeless and everything we own is no longer in storage at the Big Yellow Storage facility in B-B-Bow E3. This is awesome news (for us at least). Here is our front room before we put everything where it belongs.

Here is our front room now.

The room will most likely fluctuate between these two states over the next year, reaching the extremes more than once. It’s depressing to think that tidying up is, at best, a short-term measure – a kind of un-exciting fire fighting procedure that is essential and futile at the same time. London looked like this whilst we were moving into the new place in Clapton – I think it looks kind of awesome.The green tint is the camera, unfortunately. The reality is much more orange than my photo makes out.

It was snowing so hard that when I went to buy moving-in pizza for me and Ema that my footsteps had disappeared under a fresh coating of snow within the 15 minutes it took to stone-bake our amazing dinners. The lines between footpath and non-footpath were erased completely and I casually strolled across someone’s driveway on the way home, leaving my size 8 converse tracks as evidence. The next day saw the news networks proclaiming how the country had come to a standstill whilst everyone (pretty much) just got on with everything almost completely normally, but a bit late.

On a completely different note, this is what I would look like with an awesome moustache. Should I start an opinion poll on this?

More tomorrow, I’m done. Peez.

Dan