"Nice Beaver!" "Thanks, I just had it stuffed."

Sooo we've been a little more active lately (3 shows in two weeks...astounding I know). The shows in Lincoln and Manchester with Astpai were both awesome, and playing with Off With Their Heads, Apologies, Pacer and Rooftops in Derby was fantastic, albeit tinged with sadness knowing that it was Rooftops' last show, and they will be greatly missed by anyone who bought their CD or experienced them live over the past year. It was however impressive to see Jugs' aggressive sales technique which saw most of the people in attendance gaining at the very least a CD, if not a t-shirt and the promise of a sound beating as well. There was also a pretty brutal fight in Derby outside the club opposite the venue, which saw one particularly enthusiastically angry young man knocked out cold for at least 10 minutes. Oh the things that you see at midnight on a Thursday in the Midlands.

Moving swiftly on, we've got a couple more gigs in September, one on the 24th in Kendal (I think the place is called Dicky Doodles or something) and another on the 29th at Moho Live in Manchester supporting The Skints and Jaya The Cat. After that we're going to use October constructively to write and maybe record some new songs, as well as preparing for tour in November.

As I mentioned in the last post, Francis and I recently moved, and we've been fortunate enough to find somewhere that has a place where we can practice. Hopefully this will mean we can actually practice regularly, something which anyone who attended either of the Astpai shows will agree will be a definite plus on our part. So I'll sign off with a photo of our new practice space. We're going to spend some time in the next few weeks sprucing it up so it doesn't look so much like a serial killer's lair.


Andi