------------ Album ------------ At the time of writing it is precisely 3 weeks and 6 days until the release of my first full-length album "Destroy It Yourself".
D(IY)-Day is Monday 9th May, so if you could preorder it via one of the following links that'd just about make my life:
Blimey I'm crap at this blogging lark - it's been what, 6 months since the last one? Naughty Thief, must try harder.
So it's a new year, a new decade, and with all that come the traditional slew of resolutions and expectations for making improvements and progress that all too often fall by the wayside.
I'm pretty sure, for instance, that I decided I was going to blog about every gig I played last year........failed that one for a start. I only remembered that about a week into January and considered starting again, but I've already missed one so that's doomed before it even starts really.
But let's stop focussing on the negatives - a whole bunch of positive shit happened last year, including two major resolutions of mine:
1) Having a proper commercial release - achieved through the medium of Exclamation At Asterisk Hash, a split ep with the wonderful Ben Marwood and Jim Lockey, thanks to the and the good people of Broken Tail & Josaka, which despite Amazon and Play.com's best efforts managed to make its way into many a home over the summer.
Not got a copy yet? Why I outtta.....recommend you go here immediately and get a copy: http://snipurl.com/u4knq
2) Touring with a bill of likeminded boozehounds - again thanks to Jim & Ben this aim was securely ticked off my "to do" list............previous tours have always been a bit of a mixed bag of opening slots, acoustic nights, and random headliners dotted around the place, so it was such an awesome experience to be able to spend each night out watching two great performers do their thing......even if the resultant perpetual hangover turned me into a horrible moaning bastard every day at 5pm sharp.
1,000+ miles later these two already great pals have firmly been engrained into my being - like Spock and McCoy in Star Trek II (or is it III?) - and should one of them ever expire from an radiation overdose in a space exploration vessel, I fully intend to go a bit mad before scouring a newly terraformed planet in search of their reanimated corpse.
And if that isn't friendship, I don't know what is.
Head to Youtube for video evidence of how much sheer fun that week was.
Of course, whilst probably not quite worthy of such insane ramblings (yet), huge showers of respect and appreciation and thanks and other such gushing will have to be aimed squarely at the Lexapalooza family of organisers, performers and attendees (Evan, Dani, Frank, Chris, Dan, Pete, Paul, Anna-M, Ravi, Jay...and everyone who yelled "GOLD" really loud), everyone at Two Thousand Trees Festival (the captains Scarlett, Andy, and the unofficial ISTF stage), the !@*# tourettes (Kevin, Jacqui, Mr Addis, Winnie, Stan), to Johnny Foreigner and Tubelord for putting up with my relentless mission to always support them everytime they come to Bristol (and in the former's case for probably being a bit of a scary fanboy).
And of course a special mention has to go to Mrs Thief for yet another year of me heading out of the door without washing up, and coming in late and waking her with well meaning, yet ill advised tipsy greetings.
Here's to this year...which is already nearly 1/12 gone. Fucking hell.
I'll leave your strained eyes (and with all this rambling, probably minds as well) with a list of upcoming gigs and recommendations for music/reading/watching material - see you soon :)
OT
Tuesday 26th January - New songs only gig @ The Louisiana Friday 5th February - The Frog & Fiddle, Cheltenham Saturday 6th February - House party, Treforest Sunday 7th February - The Angel, Aberystwyth Monday 8th February - Ten Feet Tall, Cardiff Thursday 11th February - Peewees, Trowbridge Thursday 25th February - Mandela Bar, Bristol University
Tuesday 9th March - Mother's Ruin, Bristol w/Chris T-T
then it's album recording time......woo!
-------------------------------------------- Currently listening to:
Thrice - Beggars Left Side Brain - Collider Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Reading: Douglas Coupland - Shampoo Planet www.richardherring.com/warmingup Mike Mignola - Hellboy Luna Brothers - The Sword (Image Comics)
Watching: Lost - Season 5 Day of the Triffids (BBC version 2009)
13 Aug - Oakford Social Club, Reading 14 Aug - Corn Exchange, Devizes 15 Aug - Mothers Ruin, Bristol *FREE ENTRY 16 Aug - Slak, Cheltenham 17 Aug - Castle Addis, Birmingham 18 Aug - Elbow Room, Leeds *FREE ENTRY* 19 Aug - City Screen Basement Bar, York 20 Aug - Trillians, Newcastle *FREE ENTRY* 21 Aug - The Parish, Huddersfield 23 Aug - Drift Bar, Portsmouth
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Also,
I know it might be a bit of a faux pas to post Facebook links on
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