Tour is over.....

And we all made it in just about one piece. I'll write a hefty account complete with incriminating pictures when I have a little more time on my hands, but this is just a quick thankyou to eveyone who played a part in making the last 11 days or so some of the best of my whole life. It's so weird to not wake up in a room with 7 dudes, it's weird to not crack open a beer at 11am and it's weird to not spend the majority of my day impersonating Vinnie Stigma.

Road warrior general Tom Hussey and Tim Atom Bomb worked incredibly hard to ensure that everything ran relatively smoothly, and I'm proud to call those guys friends. A huge thanks to everyone who sorted out a show, let us stay at their house, cooked for us, bought a t-shirt/record/booze.

It's on!!

I am tour-bound in about an hour. It is 5.15am, I have been up since about 8am yesterday morning, and have yet to sleep a wink. A horrific evening shift at work was massively improved by listening to Dillinger Four and drinking a Corona in the kitchen while washing a mountain of dishes. I am now firmly of the opinion that beer and punk rock can pretty much cure anything.

Right now I think my eyeballs are drying up.

My car is loaded up with my drums and a sleeping bag, I need to be 150 miles away by 9am. We are having a practise from 9am until midday then driving straight to London for Punk N Bowl, EVERYONE SHOULD DEFINITELY COME because there are some awesome bands playing, and if you are broke you have no excuse because it's free entry suckers!

Over the next week and a bit we are probably playing really close to wherever you live so come along, stamp your feet to Cheap Girls and throw beer all over Bailey. He loves it when people do that.

New shirts and other fun stuff!!!

These were delivered to Jack today, and they're looking pretty sexy. They come in blue or white with orange print and are available in emo/punk/hip hop sizes (that's small/medium/large to you) Unfortunately if you are grindcore (youth large) grime (XL)or any other music genre-sized you are shit out of luck and have terrible taste. They are going to cost you £6, which is a bargain if I may say so myself.

Here are the running times for Punk N Bowl- so you can strategically schedule your bowling games

2:00 - 2:25pm L Morgan
2:35 - 3:00pm More Than a Joke
3:15 - 3:40pm Break the Habit
3:55 - 4:25pm The Dead City Stereo
4:40 - 5:10pm The 255's
5:25 - 5:50pm Crocus
6:05 - 6.35pm Cutting Class
6:50 - 7:20pm The Computers
7:35 - 8:05pm The Cut Ups
8:20 - 8:50pm Chillerton
9:05 - 9.35 The Don Ramos Players
9.50 - 10:20 Milloy
10:35 - 11:05 Virgins

Unfortunately all bowling lanes are closed between 8.20 and 8.50pm, which by some strange coincidence is the time we are playing. Mad props to Greg for putting all the bands whose name begins with a C back to back, the obsessive compulsive in me loves that shit.


TOUR DILEMMA!

So we are not very famous, we don't play big venues or anything like that, but part of me thinks we should definitely have some entrance music for when we are on tour. Not enough bands do it these days- I think the concept has been stolen by WWF wrestlers and Darts players. Let's bring it back and get the party started?

Either of my two favourite songs right now would be perfect.

Asher Roth- I Love College



Or Quiet Riot- Metal Health (Bang Your Head)



Answers on a postcard please. Thanks.

Oh another one I just found.

ALSO when we get back from tour if we haven't died/checked into rehab/split up we are playing on the Isle of Wight on June 5th, and in Brighton with the mighty Milloy on June 7th. We would like a gig on the 6th please, ideally somewhere south. Get in contact yeah?

One other thing, our Floridian brothers in New Bruises are coming over to the UK for a couple of weeks at the beginning of June, we played together a bunch when they were last over here, they totally looked after us at Fest and leant us all their instruments, they printed our t-shirts, and I stayed with Bryon for a week when I went to the Hot Water Music reunion last year. We are pretty 'tight' let's say. HOWEVER it seems that we are not playing a single show together this tour. This needs to be addressed, so if you have them booked to play and you can squeeze us on the bill drop us a line. We will be happy, they will be happy, you will be happy. Everyone wins.

Tour is nearly here

So it's a matter of days til we head out on the road for the first time in forever and everything is almost falling into place. We have some new t-shirts, with a picture of a dog on, designed by Alex Curtis http://www.thr33designs.co.uk/ and printed up by the awesome Kay at Cut Out Shop http://www.cutoutshop.com/ Check these guys out if you want anything screen printed with love and care, they are very reasonably priced, unbelievably helpful and totally DIY.




A couple more tour posters for you perusal

Punk N Bowl 2!

This is going to be off the chart! Can't wait!!

Shook Ones is tomorrow!

Just a gentle reminder that we're playing the Shook Ones show at Unit 22, Southampton tomorrow- this is going to be our first gig in quite some time, so we are going to ACTUALLY PRACTISE and try and remember how to play some songs. You should all come along, it will be fun. There's some other bands playing too, I can't remember who but I'm sure they are awesome.

Last time I saw Shook Ones it was at Ryan's (Dirty Money) flat in Gainesville during Fest 6- it was one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen, the floor was caving in so everyone had to sit on the floor, the police came, total chaos.




Word.

If you make it

I am on my friends laptop doing some more updating, cos I am hungover to shit. My second phase of giving up drinking can be measured in hours and days rather than months and years.

I only intended on going out for a little while last night, but when you have a couple of beers you get an almighty thirst and before you know it you have drank six pints and it's closing time. We should probably have admitted defeat by this time but you don't want to stop there, you want more. My friend Matt and I rode our bikes to another pub, we were already wasted and he fell off pretty bad, I somehow managed to keep it together, don't ask me how because I could barely walk. We drink some more, we meet up with our friend Christian and just talk shit about music and life and stuff. I'm not entirely certain but I'm sure we agreed that we will 'definately start a band' for about the thousandth time. It is pretty late, we are definately fucked.....

Roll forward a few hours, it is the morning, I should be moving house but instead I am watching some videos on http://www.ifyoumakeit.com/ I challenge anyone to watch some of the pink couch sessions, or some of the live shows and then tell me that you don't feel inspired. The above account of last nights drinking is probably the basis that alot of the bands on the site formed, I think it is how Chillerton came together all those years ago. Watching the videos you can see that the bands are all friends, that they are doing what they love and that they couldn't care less for the ridiculous things alot of bands aspire to.

Aside from the actual bands, the fact that this whole thing exists totally blows my mind. I believe that it is the guy from Halo Fauna (and a bunch of other bands) and some of his friends who have given up their time and money to create such an incredible website where people can not only watch some amazing videos, but download a whole bunch of music for free. It is an awesome representation and documentation of what punk rock means in 2009. Please check it out. Thanks.

And also.....

Sorry, I'm terrible at this blogging lark- right now I don't have my own computer or a house or any of my possessions or anything so I've had other things to worry about. Then I get a chance to do some guerilla updating on my friends laptop and forget what it is I wanted to write, so there's always a couple of posts than occur straight after each other, I could edit the original one, but it seems too much like hard work



Our next gig is in Southampton with Shook Ones on April 26th at Unit 22.




Following that we are playing the 2nd Punk N Bowl at Bloomsbury Lanes bowling alley, London. I don't think there's a flyer kicking around yet as there are some more bands due to be added but the line-up so far is fucking incredible! Virgins (USA ex-NMDS)/Milloy/Don Ramos Players/The Cut-Ups/Break The Habit/loads more.

Tour Poster!

Here it is- for some reason it wouldn't upload it last time, so it was just showing as a link. I don't know who designed it but I like it, it makes me think of SpiceWorld the movie. I wish we could drive around in a big red double decker bus with Richard E Grant.

And this is the poster for the Manchester show- going to be slamming!

This one is for Leeds- we haven't played in Leeds for ages. We are described as 'legendary' on the poster. Nice.

I'll stick up some more posters for the shows when I stumble across them on the internet. Yeah.