Weird Weather, Riots, Recording and Rehearsals...

Recording is continuing and the album is, I would say, a little over halfway done. After a few technical glitches and a few schoolboy errors we’re back on track and (we hope) on schedule for an early 2006 release. That said, a small spanner has been thrown in the works for this week as we remembered that we’d booked an acoustic show with Chris Tye some months back and it comes around this Friday 28th. We haven’t played live since supporting Stephen Fretwell in May, so we’re a little ring-rusty so will be spending most of the time this week knocking ourselves back into shape.

We've been having some strange weather here in Birmingham - the strangest of all being our neighbourhood hit by not one, but two tornadoes over the last two months. Nothing on the scale of New Orleans, but nevertheless not what you expect in the middle of a landlocked city in the UK….and even now, deep into October, we continue to experience temperatures in the high teens and low twenties. Odd...

Whilst I’d like to think that the weird weather has something to do with the events seen just up the road at the weekend - People fighting in the streets and a whole cloud of tension and pressure hanging over parts of the city – I suspect that there is more than just odd weather to blame. Calm seems to have returned as I write this and I hope it continues.

However, this isn’t the place to discuss such things but you should know that they, amongst other things, have provided the local backdrop for our recent activities.

We’ll post pictures and sounds from Friday's show in due course.

More soon….