So....

We played on Friday.

Personally I only saw Off with their Heads and The Blankheads and both were excellent. I got drunk the rest of the night and missed the 2 other bands, which was probably a foolish error, especially as I was shit at Pool, and spilt someones drink over a coat. (Bob I'm really sorry about that if you ever read this, and the offer for cleaning costs are there as I know how annoying it is when pissheads do this..)

All four of us had different opinions on how well / sloppy we were! Personally I thought 2 shows in the last 7 months (!) definitely showed, and that we still need to practice all the new songs from the album a fair bit more before tour as they need tightening up big willie style. Dan Bell thought we were as AWESOME as ever the mentalist, and I think Dave and Iain were somewhere inbetween and a bit more sensible. Thanks to the usual gaggle of friends who came and politely applauded and massaged our massively inflated egos (Jimbo, Tom, dAnneka, Jo, Vicky, Dawn, Steve, Julie, Gemma) as ever it's nice to see everyone together and especially on a weekend, though wish we played the albert more as the toilets are so rank in the Hobgoblin. And it was really good to see some Kingston/London types (and exiles) turn up at various stages of the evening, mainly the end though, as they all missed us due to us playing at 4.26pm (probably for the best though, with hindsight!).

Same old Lessons for me from playing live: STOP FUCKING TALKING AS I'M SHIT AT 'BANTER'. Could someone hold up a board with that for me at every show please, abusing your bandmates and generally apologising for being so shit does not a frontman make.....take note.

Pretty much sorry to anyone I drunkenly bored and depressed the rest of the evening - I blame the Cider. And the Sambuca. I take no responsibility for my actions.

Well Album sales are off to a flyer - we sold ONE! ho ho ho. We're laughing all the way to the wankbank.

We now have another show before tour with some nice people in D0rking (Fun Alf! and co.), and with some nice people from Devon also playing (Brothers, Some sort of threat) - think there's still a big ol' spanking TBC on that bill too. This'll be at the Lincoln Arms, usual times and all that nonsense. Someone bring the 'shut the fuck up dan' sign please - or just shout it out, seriously. That's happening on Friday 27th of March that is...

Sounds like one of the tour dates (6th) might be a bit sketchy due to some fuckhead thiefs who robbed one of the venues and royally fucked them over - May they burn for enternity in cash converters, the (likely) scaggy thievy bastards. We'll keep you posted with regards to this. If Newbury/surrounding area date goes tits up then we'll either be a) looking for a show, or b) out on the piss in Brighton / London / Southend. I wouldn't mind a game of Megazone actually....

Still haven't set up an online purchasing system for the Album on the myspace or here, but I'm sure you'll all survive.

Yours excrutiatingly,

B'den