a small tour with our friends in the computers...

right now we are vanless because ours has finally bitten the dust and we can't afford to fix it, we are going on tour next week, it looks like we will be walking!

we are going to screen print a limited amount of these posters - they will be available at the shows for a small fee...

same goes for this poster on the static radio tour a few weeks later...

rock midgits

i did an interview with rock midgits, you can check it out here...

Mike Davies Punk Show session...

if you missed it this morning you can listen again using the bbc iplayer. here is the link

friday was awesome, saturday sucked!

DOWN FOR LIFE!

on friday a group of us spent the day at the studio seven tattoo shop getting arteries tattoos from ash and neil, it was a really good day, 16 people bit the bullet and there are more to follow this week (i think.)

*insert small dick caption here*

it was a blast hanging out with our friends and watching jump of a building and ghost busters on repeat!

We were supposed to play infest II in peterborough on saturday night but we didn't make it on account of van trouble which really sucked! we were really looking forward to the show and to hanging out with our friend shaun who was putting the whole thing on.
the fucking van did the same thin that it did on the way to maida vale the other week, even though we had it fixed last week, gutted!

we had to turn around and head home, to make sure that we didn't cook the engine we had to put water in every 2 miles. after doing that about 3 times we pulled over and waiting to get towed by the AA, it was a real shame.

on a lighter note - our maida vale session is being aired in the early hours of tomorrow morning on radio one's punk show with mike davies. if you miss it, be sure to listen again using the iplayer.

here is a cool video of jenks for your viewing pleasure;

ICE ROAD TRUCKERS

this is what went down on our trip to london last week;

we had trouble with our van on the way to bristol so when we stopped to get jenks we called the RAC. they arrived with two options;
1. we can tow you home
2. we can tow you to london
so we got towed to exeter!

when we got to exeter nic from the computers was kind enough to let us borrow their van (thanks nic!)

as soon as we got back on course to london it started snowing really heavily. the A road that we were on looked like this;

we barely got out of second gear and at one point we skidded round a corner and almost landed the van in a big ol' ditch!
miles didn't really get any photos of the cool shit like that because he was too busy fearing for his life. oh well, i'm pretty sure that this photo of a skid mark is related...

the M3 looked like this;

you couldn't see any defining lines between the hard shoulder and the central resivation so we just went slow and stayed in lorry tracks. we left swansea at 3:30 pm and arrived in london at 5:00am!

after all that driving and 2 hours sleep the police stopped us when we were trying to park outside maida vale for having a picture of a dick on the back of the van. go catch some bad guys you lazy cops!

they laughed at jenks for being the only bad guy with stuff on his record!

we were in and out of the studio, it was a really impressive place and a good oppertunity for free coffee.

we wrote our name right next to orange goblin's in the lift. together 4 eva.

the drive back to exter was going fine, we were making good time and it looked like we would make it to the cavern to catch the cut ups at their release show, which we were really excited about! but when we got about 30 miles away this happened...

we were stuck.
there were a thousand idiots skidding around in our way and it looked like we were gunna have to camp out in the van. gutted!
the van looked like this;

and we had to do a whole lot of this;

with no lack of determination we finally made it. we left london at 6:00pm and got to exeter at 4:00am holy smokes!

check this out too;

lovely

kerrang

we had one of those introducing pages in kerrang this week. you can check it out here (click it to read it) ;


they took the photo back in december at the venue we were playing in brighton on the dead city stereo tour. they were cool people, they bought us beers and even stuck around for the show!

miles has all the ice road truckers photos and probably has some from maida vale too, i will upload any good ones as and when he emails them to me. after we had recorded and mixed the songs on thursday we had to do an interview over the phone with mike davies in LA.
that kind of stuff seems to be a bit painful for us. at one point he asked about which bands we are into in the uk, crumbling under the pressure wiped us out. stupidly, we didn't mention a whole bunch of bands that we really should have.

so this is an attemp of redeeming that...
make sure you check out;

THE PLIGHT
THE SHITTY LIMITS
YOU ME & THE ATOM BOMB
THE GROUNDNUTS & INDEPENDENTS
TAINT
THE DEAD CITY STEREO
BANGERS

snow days ain't so fun

right now we are strnaed in exeter with a broken van. on wednesday night it took us 14 hours to get from swansea to london and yesterday it took is 9 hours to get from london to exeter, we missed the cut ups release show. gutted

photos and stories coming soon, right now we have to fix the van!

p.s. the maida vale session that we recorded went well

AC/DC cover clips

our friend kath filmed the AC/DC covers set that we played at the studio seven party the other night. here are a couple of the songs we played and a bunch of cuts from highway to hell (i think she was having camera trouble at that point - but it looks kinda fun.)

also, rez cut a bunch of clips together on his phone and made this little pixely masterpiece with our song 'already tomorrow' as a backing track. thanks rez ;)

it's a snow day

check it out; we recorded 'snow day' over a year and a half ago (the same day we recorded beach day) we have been keeping it a secret, waiting for a day like today.