i've done a playlist...

...for this here website.

looking glass album out now

so we did the looking glass album launch this week, which went pretty well i thought, apart from: jack telling me i had "drum face"; nick and jack's dj set/the evening's music being prematurely curtailed after nick got into a petulent stand-off with the bar man over the volume control.

details on how to get hold of jim's excellent looking glass record can be found on his blog.

poster ist rad

reading matter

there is an interview i did with the dumbing of america website here

on numbers

anyone who saw us at our white light gig the other week or who sees us on our upcoming tour will be aware that we are now trading as a four piece. i thought a little bit of information was in order about how we got here and what happens next.

so obviously cathy was in the band, and on the album, but then committments with the fanfarlos became a bit onerous with us both having albums out, so we decided to get our good friend juliet to play with us instead. this worked out very well, and a better and more lovely lucas replacement could not have been wished for. but time rolls on, and juliet has gone off to become an advanced brainiac in a learned institution, and so we decided it might be fun and productive to go back to four like in the old days.

apart from the negative effects on the gender equality of the stolen roster and indie rock in general, this is working out well. our first show felt like genuine progress, and we are at a stage where we have lots of new songs and are figuring out what the next record will sound like, so it seems a timely shake up. we'll see how it all goes.

onwards and upwards.

tour

we've been rightly criticised for our failure to make it outside the M25 in any sustained kind of way, so have been taking steps to make amends. we have a tour, which will wend its way around the country in a slightly haphazard way: starting from this saturday, 17th, in windsor and then more consistently for a week or so from 28th in chelmsford, before finishing with  a few dates in december. 

we're going to have all kinds of merch goodies at the shows - more details about this and the full schedule on our myspace.

hello bears demo

here is an early demo i did back in the day of hello bears, which i just came across on my computer. it's kind of the same but different:

listen