Oh my word!

Well, there’s no hiding we haven’t updated this thing since last November. Unfortunately that’s because nothing’s really happened. We’re still together, though, which must be a relief for you all – we know, we know.

Now, if anyone is around tomorrow night (Thursday, 26 July) Adrian is playing a solo show at the Prince Albert pub in Brighton. He’s onstage at 8.30pm and it’s £4 entry. The whole thing is part of the Cableclub’s tenth birthday celebrations.
Ten years of Cableclub – that’s quite a feat, especially in Brighton.

There are two bands playing as well so come on down.

If this is too short notice, Cableclub is doing another party on the Friday at The Haunt in Brighton with label-mates Sparrow and other bands. We’re not playing, but we’re sure Simon (Cableclub promoter and our manager) would be only too pleased to see you raise a glass to him.

We’re not even going to make promises about how often this is likely to be updated now. Rest assured, though, we haven’t been gallivanting around the world on some massive tour without telling you. If only…

Hello round at the Adrian’s playing the hits with a roaring fire and plenty of tea and biscuits…

Hello,
Where did two months go? Nobody knows.

We’re playing an acoustic gig at The Druids on Ditchling Road opposite The Level in Brighton on Thursday, 1 December.
It’s free entry and we’re playing about 15 minutes of material from about 8pm. More details to follow.

Alex has started tentatively playing drums at home, but is unable to play for long periods. We won’t bore you with medical details, but it’s difficult for him to play to the same intensity as before – for the moment, at least.

Apparently, Turncoat is going to be featured on the front page of some sort of Google music site in the USA. If you’re reading this as a result of downloading The Brighton Blank, feel free to have a look around and peer into our past “glories”.

Details on the rerelease of An Adventure In Skill And Chance will follow in our next update. Let’s hope that’s within two months of this post…

We had The Brighton Blank 2008, Going Blank Again 2009 and Back To The Blank: Part III 2010, but The Brighton Blank Goes Fourth will have to wait.

Our festival will not be taking place this year. We’ve had a couple of people asking about this and felt it was only right to let people know. In the face of not being able play (it only seems right to perform at your own festival, especially if you’ve organised it all), we have decided to postpone it.

The other crucial factor in not doing it was the venue. We’ve had our studio space in Goddards Green to use for the past three years. This time, we were toying with the idea of using a site slightly nearer to Brighton, but not being able to play live at the moment put a premature end to any further plans.

Hopefully we’ll see the ‘Blank return for 2012…

Lots of crazy things have happened in the world since our last post. The same cannot be said for Turncoat – we have done very little recently.

The good news is Alex has finished medical treatment to the damage in his shoulder and neck. It’s just a case of physiotherapy now to work back towards drumming again. Some of his treatments sounded quite gruelling, and we won’t go into them here, so it’s good that those days are behind him.

We met up recently to discuss how long it would be before he is fit enough to play. His arms are still weak and it could take a year or so before he’s “match-fit”. The possibility of using a different drummer in the interim was discussed but, as we were writing new material before the accident, we felt it would be pointless to enlist someone else for that.

We might work on some pieces that don’t require a live drummer. They may not extend to the live arena, but give us a creative outlet in the meantime.

On a final (less interesting) note, our equipment is all in storage and we have no plans to set up another studio yet. Chaz and Adrian have taken some of their gear home to work on things and Alex has a snare and hats in his cottage to tinker on.