Finally rebuilding my studio today. I haven’t had a place to work since Christmas (!) so it’s no wonder I haven’t been inspired. Think this one’s going to be more performance related than recording. I have a lot of visual ideas I want to iron out before we next play.

Dan went back to the states on Monday and my week so far has been a flurry of moving SB equipment, overdue bills and family commitments. switching to normality now…

*click*

Thanks so much to everyone who came out to see us last night. Hope you had a good night, despite the obvious hitches :/

Will process all your tickets with emails on soon!

Special thanks to Heather for this which, frankly, is above and beyond the call of duty (and delicious):

And thanks, obviously, to Luke Adams and the Flyaways for playing great sets.

Last day before show and we’re rejigging whole tech setup. Fear. But hopefully for the better!

If you didn’t manage to get tickets before they stopped selling (yesterday?), don’t panic, there will be some be available on the door.

Sorry to those who’ve tried to contact me over the last week, it’s been quite hectic with the recording and everything…

See you tomorrow!

Aaaaaeeeeeerrrrrrgghgghhhhhhhhheeeeeooooiiiiuuuuusssssssggghh…

Feels good :)

By the way I carelessly didn’t blog to let you know we are doing a show in Bournemouth.

It’s at the Winchester, 15th Feb, Doors 7:30.

Spent much of today moving our equipment to a secret underground lair (I kid you not).

Very excited to have Dan over in a couple of days and get down to work. All this standing around with hands in pockets is terrible for my mental health.

Also really want to get out and play some shows but unfortunately the UK border agency doesn’t take kindly to Americans playing live music without a work visa. I hardly think being payed less money than the cost of travel to and from a gig counts as working… Ho hum.

Nice to see that one of my New Years Resolutions has already fallen through. C’est la vie.

Morning,

I found these inspiring a long time ago and I recently stumbled across them again. They’re called TED talks, and they’re just free talks on ideas worth spreading.

The first one I ever saw was about a man called Theo Jansen, a ‘Kinetic Sculptor’ who created these gigantic living structures that roam the beaches storing pressure from the wind in plastic bottles, then using it to move and keep themselves out of the sea.

I thought it would be good to indulge in one every morning, since they usually make me feel so motivated. Most of them are a bit long to share, but this one got right to the point and I hope you get as much out of it as I did:

I visited the bestival website today and was ashamed to discover that a festival blogs more often than I do.

Happy New Year, everyone… my resolution is to learn French and blog more.

x Chris

So, friday was our last night in Wales – before the big pack up we made a playlist of everything we’ve worked on and listened to it back to back as we finished a bottle of whiskey.

The surprising part: turns out we wrote over an hour of new material o_O

Also, who knew the iTunes visualizer had become bloody amazing?

Have yet to compile the rest of the footage into another video blog… thought it probably more important to be finishing songs. Will do eventually.

Afraid you have to hold your horses for new music as we’re not sure what we want to do with it just yet.

x

Sorry for the yawn factor of this post but I need to draw your attention to a mistake on your account settings page:

The ‘mailing list’ and ‘public’ checkboxes were back to front. Anyone who made changes to their preferences since the new account page was live (the map etc.) should double check their settings now.

The worst outcome is that some of you might not be on the mailing list when you expected to be or vice versa. I’ve set everyone’s profile to private.

To confirm: there is no security threat, just inconvenience for which I hope you’ll accept my apologies.