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Saturday, January 24, 2004

We've chosen the cover for the EP - very smart. All being well, we'll have the CDs in a couple of weeks - news of how you can hold of a copy will be posted on the website. Talking of which, discostudents.com will be firing on all cylinders in a few days.
Preparations now for our next live appearance at The Flag, Watford on Tuesday 3rd February. We're on stage at around 10.15pm - a late night for us.
Songwriting continues, new material is being created all the time. "Anti-Gay" and "First Day Out Of Jail" can now take their rightful place
in our set.
We'll have more news of a number of live gigs soon and it looks as if we'll be playing in Manchester sometime in April.


Friday, January 16, 2004

Two live dates for the group have been confirmed. We play The Flag at Watford on Tuesday 3rd February and The Buffalo Bar in Upper Street, Islington on Wednesday 10th March.
There will be more dates announced soon.
New songs keep arriving , "We're All On Drugs" and "Do You Want To Be,Be, My B,B,Baby?" and "Lend Me A Scrubber" have just been put through their paces.
A decision has to made regarding the cover of the CD - I think we've found what we've been looking for.

Sunday, January 11, 2004

We've definitely now moved into Phase 2. With the CD now safely recorded and a set of songs written and rehearsed we have moved on to writing and working on new material. We have burst into 2004 on a creative high, with no less than 5 songs now near to completion.
"The Chrysler Building 1976", "Black Girlfriend" and "We're All Gonna Die" have been with us for a few weeks, and they are now nearly completed.
Personally, I feel "Black Girlfriend" to be our finest song.
What was great at our last rehearsal was how we created two new songs almost spontaneously. "The Most Handsome Man on T.V" and "First Day Out Of Jail" came about in a sort of electric storm. I wrote the former song, well, lyrics and melody , in the bath, less than an hour before the rehearsal.
Six months in a Welsh Cottage to get your shit together before writing a concept album ? Bollocks to all that.
There's no doubting the fact we are onto something here.

Saturday, January 03, 2004

And so into 2004. The group have enjoyed a break over the Christmas period, but we are back writing and rehearsing later this week.
New songs written over the past couple of weeks are "Frustrated Film-Maker",
"The Metropolitan Line", "In Search Of A Good Haircut" and "Boyish Girl".
The aim is to now press ahead and create new material.
The CD is being pressed, and we're now thinking of the artwork and sleeve design.
We're looking for some live dates to tie-in with the CD release, hopefully some London gigs will be announced soon.