Gig News

We've got a couple of gigs lined up to see out the year.
The first is a local band showcase sponsored by local, reactionary, rag The Evening Post at The Fleece - one of the cornerstones of the Bristol indie/rock scene - on Tuesday, December 4th (which, I should mention, is Simon's birthday), and it's free to get in.

Here's the poster:



Yes we are bottom of the bill - it's run a bit like a league table. If you get loads of people to come along to the gig you get to play higher on the bill next time.

The second gig is supporting EMI signed London and Bristol based band The Corrections - who sound pretty good from what little I've heard - on thursday, 20th December at The Louisiana (which we've wanted to play for ages). Once again we are second support, but we are not precious and are just enjoying the experience of playing to an audience and getting more comfortable on stage.

Come along to either or both - but the plan is to have some new material ready for the gig on the 20th. Hope to see you there.

Photos from Qui gig

Still Alive

Once again thanks to friends for coming along - we hope you enjoyed it. It was good for us to play a venue that big with a proper stage, and the band well-miced. We'd practised once in the last month, so it probably wasn't our best performance but hopefully we sounded good.



Ready to Rock

Qui was pretty wild, and also pretty nice guys. We chatted with them backstage and discussed rather rock'n'roll things: the use of the word 'twat,' Gibson Guitars, the merits of Slint, the peculiarities of bourbon, and the ready availability of cocaine (I'm not sure who was sadder, David Yow for not getting his 'pick me up' or Yanu for not knowing where to get any and failing the big man).



Qui - According to David this was 'just going through the motions'

We also encountered some of the most heinous liggers. Ben dubbed them 'arse lickers international.' Choice quote, "David Yow I'd like you to meet my friend Susie - Susie, this is David Yow... he is an awesome person."

More pictures to follow.

Gig, this Thursday!

We've just lined up a gig at the Thekla supporting Qui on their UK tour. It's on Thursday 15th November, and cost £7 to get in. I guess we're on about 7:30. More details on Facebook.

Per diem pedals

I've been out in Chicago for work this past week, meetings and political intrigue galore. What fun. Decided to take yesterday afternoon off for some shopping. Accidentally ended up in a guitar store and bought two new sweet effects pedals. First of I got the classic Nano Clone:



It's a beaut, does a really nice range of chorus, from nice subtle doubling to wacked out of tune fat madness. Ace.

Second up I got a Holy Stain (huh huh Stain):



This little bad boy does two reverbs (one kind of normal, one really dubby), pitch shift (fun, but never that useful imho) and a tremelo (which is really nice). Also has two really fat meaty distortions - mmmmm.

Hopefully we'll be back in the studio next week so I can try them out. We've been trying to organise some gigs for December (yes, you read that right, plural!), and a charity night thing for the Malawi Education Project for the new year, so we'd better get our skates on!