Project Bondy.

Our good friend Toby plays bass in Serf Combat and their band is awesome and one day we will tour with them and it will be tremendous. Anyway, Toby has this recording device and has started taping shows and putting them up on the internet and I think this is really cool. It's really difficult to make it to some of the better shows around the country for a lot of people and a lot of southern bands never make it far up north and vice versa so the effort that goes into documenting some of these shows is really comendable and could help unify the semi-north/south divide that some bands struggle to bridge. Its a pretty small country afterall.

Ian at strikeachord has been doing roughly the same thing and I'd like to think that someone, somewhere will have the time and knowledge to pull it all together and create a site not unlike Ifyoumakeit which has been documenting shows in the NY area for a while now, as well as preparing original content and acoustic performances. I think this kind of thing could be awesome for a lot of bands in the country - there really isn't anything other than Punktastic to share what everyone is doing and help promote shows and bands to people that care, but haven't the time to go to every gig or check every bands website.

Anyway, in liu of some kind of my proposed mega-site (which I shall now call "project Bondy"), here is a recording from our first night of tour at the Cowley Club in Brighton, recorded by Toby. I think some of the levels are a bit dodge and my in-between song banter was not up to par that night, but whatever. We also only did 5 songs because time was a-pressing. Theres loads of stuff on the site, have a listen. http://aloadofstuffthathappened.wordpress.com

Dan "Project Bondy" Bond.
x

ps: Someone let Matt from Calvinball have a blog. It's tame at the moment, but I can assume there will be some serious shit getting talked once he starts posting drunk. I can't wait. http://calvinball.tumblr.com/

pps: In Florida they have all you can eat crab-leg buffets. EVERY NIGHT.



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Mega Deals

We finally got around to going through the shirts left after tour and put them up on the website, along with a mega-deal. Sorry we don't have any XL or girls shirts left, we'll make them a priority for the next batch we're doing really soon.

Have a look: www.apologiesihavenone.bigcartel.com

In other news, PJ is stuck in Switzerland due to the volcano shit, but seems to be having a good time, with 2 ice creams. Doing his bit for global cooling?

Laters.

Dan

More photos. Woop.

More tour.

I didn’t even bother bringing my laptop on tour this time, after making zero effort last time to keep any kind of tour diary I had mentally written off any chance of keeping an accurate record of what happened whilst we were away this time. I wish I could commit to doing that, so many things that seem to be worth remembering get forgotten too quickly.

Things didn’t start for us the way I had hoped. Firstly, Rooftops guitarist, Jugs, found out shortly before tour that his dad was really sick and we weren’t sure whether he was going to stay at home or come out with us. Either way, the 10 days were going to be more difficult for him and us and we all felt terrible for him. He said he would do some of the dates and then see how it went and the route we were taking brought him close to home a few times and so we were prepared to do some de-touring to give him a little time at home.

A few days before we leave and there was more bad news for Rooftops – their records were stuck in Europe and wouldn’t likely arrive in time. They ended up rush-pressing 100 records at their expense which we had to pick up on the way to the first show, delaying us by hours in the north London traffic. Not a good start, but with records and Jugs now present in the van, things picked up really quickly.

All the shows we played were really fun and seemed to be well promoted, well attended and we were treated really well by everyone and on that front it was a hugely successful tour instead of the depressing money-consumer that things like this can often be. Jugs stuck around for the whole ten days and Rooftops gave some of the most intense, emotional performances I have ever seen any band do, particularly the final date in London which seemed to be a fitting end of the tour for them before Jugs got the train back home.

On a personal front, it was hugely satisfying to play every night with no real bad shows at all and to play a few new places we’ve never been before. Despite everyone slowly getting more tired and ill by the last few days, I think everyone would be happy to get back in and play more shows today. I want to say a massive thank-you to everyone who put us on, put us up, came to the shows and to Josh and Pook for doing all the driving, this has been an awesome 10 days for me.

More photos and shit soon, but heres a video of Rooftops at the Marquee in Norwich.

Dan

Rooftops, Norwich from emilou on Vimeo.

Some Tour Photos

Heres some photos from tour, mostly from the last day at the Cross Kings in London. Photos by Wendy Ng and Dan Beecham. Theres more to come, but its a sunday and I am depressed that I'm not currently stressing about my voice or loading half a ton of gear into or out of a venue right now.

Dan

Another update

I'm writing this on stolen Internet. I feel like a criminal, you know, the good kind that it's ok to like. Like John Mcain in Die Hard. He knew the law wasn't on his side but he still fucked the terrorists up. I don't feel that cool, but you know what I mean, I'm sure.

Anyway, this tour has been excellently catered, muchly hospitable and awesome fun so far. Rooftops have been real good every night and everyone has been really cool. Thanks to everyone who has come to see us so far and everyone who plans to come see
us later this week. I have nothing funny to say about that.

We got reviewed on punknews. I can't link right now but look it up!

Peace and Funking. Believe.

Dan

Update

2 dates into tour and things can only be described as "going well". We've done 2 fun shows and slept at 2 awesome places. We've eaten well and slept well. Thanks to everyone involved so far, this feels like a holiday so far.

Dan