Our good friend Mr Brown would like us to pass the following message on to you via the information superhighway -
“Leeds Festival warm up gig in..Leeds
This is basically a little low key and last minute warm up gig for a few local artists from Leeds playing this years Leeds/Reading festival. Get down early if you want to get in for this special little warm up show as it will certainly be full to capacity.
i concur - 10:30pm
Pulled Apart by Horses - 10:00pm
Fran Rodgers - 9:30pm
Grammatics - 8:45pm
Doors 8pm @ The Packhorse, Leeds
20th August, Wednesday
£3 in to cover costs
This weekend sees us do an interview and acoustic session on BBC Radio 5 Live tomorrow morning between 9:00am and 12:00am. If you miss it you can hear it again here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programme … ones.shtml
aaaaannnnddddd the super spooky video is available to watch above. It’s also on our Myspace page, and the A/V section here. The video was directed by the lovely Matt Maude and was shot late at night in the forest at Otley Chevin last Friday.
We are going out on a short, sweet tour in August in support of our free download release New Franchise. Have a look at the Live page for more information and ticket links for a few of the shows. Dom has been writing a blog about it for ages which you’ll be able to read when he finally puts it up on our Myspace.
We are still recovering from Cornwall. Heavy is an adequate adjective. We ended up staying an extra day to catch up on sleep etc. and ended up instead starting on the triple whiskies at 11.30 am. You only live once…
I hope someone does one of these for us someday. In case you’re interested, we’re at a service station hotel in Somerset on our way to Cornwall to play at Beach Break Live alongside chart-toppers like The Enemy and The Wombats (no comment). The weather on the way down yesterday was glorious - unfortunately it also meant that our hotel rooms were volcanic. Hotter than hell.
Mido, our soundman, and I tried finishing a bottle of wine each to send us off to sleep. This worked for me until about 6am when the sun came up. I ended up having a shower about 7 and have since been killing time in every possible manner. I have now sampled Cafe Ritazza, WHSmith, the BP garage over the road, the bench, the picnic table - I may even end up on Time Crisis. I am on cigarette number 4 and coffee number 2. I am not looking forward to the sugar crash.
Will try and find some photos of us from today later on - Owen has a pornographically sweet new guitar.
The beginningPosted on Wednesday June 4, 2008 at 12:08pm
So far… arguing over click track tempos, setting up bass and drums, getting into the groove, ham and cheese sandwiches, no crazy golf yet. It’s very sunny today and I’m going for a walk to the post box while Owen starts on guitars for The Shipping Forecast.
Went to Bridlington for supplies yesterday and was insulted within 25 seconds of getting out of the car. “What the fuck is that?!” Oh well, fuck ‘em…
We arrived in Bridlington on the glorious East coast of Yorkshire today to start recording our debut album. During my long spells of inactivity (i.e. when Owen is recording 12 different guitar parts) I’ll try and keep the website up to date with
how we’re getting on, insider gossip, crazy golf tournament scores, what we’re eating and photos of our adventure.
