Joiners And Windmills

Hi. This is the second song from the 7" that we're doing, again filmed at Harrow. The first chord is missing, you can imagine it if you like, its a D chord that kind of goes "Da-DAA". Its all dramatic and full of tension, you know?

Speaking of the record, they arrived yesterday and look sweet-as, so we will 100% have them on the tour and we'll put them up for order tomorrow or something you can pick one up before we go.

Dan
Apologies, i have none

Joiners and Windmills - Apologies, i have none from emilou on Vimeo.

Screen Printing for tour

The other day I spent all afternoon screen printing shirts for tour with Em. I think they came out great with 3 different designs and a few different colours. When I arrived the screens had already been prepared, but the design needed to be exposed onto it so we could start printing. This involves putting the prepared screens on a UV light box with the design on top and leaving it for 7-9 minutes.

You can then pressure washer the screen and the areas with the design exposed onto them wash away, leaving the design as "gaps" on the screen. This is where the fabric ink can get through the screen and get onto the shirt. The detail possible from screens is really impressive and we used some with a really fine mesh, offering even higher detail.

The actual process of pulling the paint through the screen requires a certain technique and we spent a long time practicing on paper and fabric scraps. Too much ink, or too many pulls with the squeegie and the design will look too heavy and detail will be lost. Too little paint or not enough pulls with the squeegie and the design will look patchy and thin. I was rubbish at it, so Ema did them all. It takes a pretty steady arm and a lot of pressure to do it clean. I like how every shirt came out just slightly different to the last and I thought they all looked great.

We have a few more to do tonight, all black shirts with a few different designs on them. These will be available on our page pretty soon, but probably not till after tour, so if you want one quick, come see us play.

Dan

Sat In Vicky Park

We played both the songs from our upcoming 7" at the Harrow show this weekend. This is the first one of the 2 songs - Sat In Vicky Park.

Sat In Vicky Park - Apologies, i have none from emilou on Vimeo.

Me and josh had a pretty solid discussion on how you would spell the shortened name of "Victoria park" while sitting in the car on the first day of recording this 7". I said we should spell it "vicky park", josh said it should be "viccy park". Well, he wrote the song, so we settled on "viccy park" against my better judgement and Ema did the artwork for the record and spelled it my way without even thinking about it. Some victories are so trivial they aren't worth winning.

Dan

North West Is Best Fest - Video

Ema recorded some bands at this show on Saturday. Sorry we didn't get everyone who played, the whole gig was awesome fun.

myspace.com/ihatecynics
myspace.com/rooftopslondon
myspace.com/leaguesapartmusic
myspace.com/apologiesihavenone
myspace.com/serfcombat
myspace.com/abovethem

Dan

Cynics, Rooftops, Leagues Apart, Apologies, i have none, Serf Combat, Above Them from emilou on Vimeo.

North West Is Best Fest

I figured the best way to spend my Sunday night was uploading tons of photos and video to the internet. Thanks for taking most of the photos Em. Videos are uploading now, I'll post them up when it's done.

Dan

Cynics

Serf Combat (minus Alf)

Rooftops

Leagues Apart

Run/Walk

Apologies, i have none

Serf Combat

Southport

Above Them

Harrow All-Dayer. All Day. Today!

Is everyone going to this today?......yeah?......good!

Not so good if you are planning on going late though. Due to our original slot of 9:50pm being past some of this bands bedtime*** we will now be playing much earlier. I'm not too sure what time but if I was a betting man then i'd say sometime before 7pm.....if I was a betting man that is......which I am.

Basically what i'm saying is if you want to see us then get down earlier, preferably at the beginning as I don't know what time we're playing.

***despite our youthful exuberance and boyish good looks, Dan and I are actually pretty old. Depressingly older than you probably realise.

Josh.

Personal Updates.

Me and Ema spent about 8 hours yesterday screen printing shirts for tour. It wasn't hugely fun, but the shirts came out real well. Ema did two new designs, one of them is below and will be available in all sizes for tour. We should be doing some with a gold print on black shirts for people who are into the bling. 60 miles away, Josh was fitting the van out so that our gear will be safer and easier to "tetris" into place by bolting wood and metal inside the back of it. PJ has been playing shows with Rooftops. Speaking of Rooftops, they just upped their whole EP onto myspace and it's awesome. Get learning the words (or where to scream) so that when you come see us on tour you can look like the dude who got in the band before they blew up. Yeah? Anyway: www.myspace.com/rooftopslondon. Joe, well, I have no idea what joe has been up to, but he usually works 2 jobs and sessions in random bands at his studio and fucks about with effects pedals and shit. He's probably been busy, I'll find out tonight.

Come to this: PJ Fest

Dan