Repeat Fanzine, based in Cambridge, have given us a rather sterling review for Adventure… which you can read here. For a reviewer who said he would start from “the shittest to the superb, in that order” I was a bit wary as to where we would appear, but needn’t have worried. Scroll to the bottom of the article for Turncoat.

In reciprocation of their goodwill, have a look at their site main page here should you be moved. Nice praise and thanks very much.

Remember we have three gigs on-the-trot at the end of the month including a fantastic night at The Albert in Brighton this Saturday which we implore you to attend. Now if we could only get a gig in Cambridge…

We played a gig in Lewes on Friday at a place called The Constitutional Club. It was a bit different to the usual gig we play in Brighton in that it was clean, not too loud, with a nice outdoor area and reasonably priced drinks. Apparently a pint of Harvey’s is £2.60 – not that I would know as I was driving the band wagon. We would like to thank Spoken Spires for letting us play. I also saw a great band called Anagrams. They used to be called Welfare Mothers – which I think is a better name – but still play great music; they actually make indie music sound good again. For a while I thought the axis had swung away from guitar bands towards all things vapid and generally shite but Anagrams did something to me that not many guitar bands do, so that was a turn up. Hopefully we can play at the Con Club again.

In other news, we’ve been given a nib in the Unsigned guide – they called Luke by his surname of Ellis but it all helps. They also mentioned our next gig in Brighton at The Albert. It’s on July 24, and will be a great night as it launches the Numbskull management and label collective with support from three other bands. Do come down.

Somehow over a month has passed since our last post, but we haven’t been entirely idle.
We have been putting together ideas for a video for The Brighton Blank. Our first idea involved a boy fishing off the side of a boat but this was scrapped due to the logistics of everything.
Then we decided to shoot the video in a old antiquated library, which would look amazing. A library like that is quite difficult to find though and, when The National Trust said it would set us back £2000 plus £5M insurance, we decided it might be a tall order.
Now the others have this idea which involves a camera rotating in the middle of a room with stuff going on around it. The idea is that the scene changes with each rotation; nothing like making life difficult for ourselves.

We have some gigs coming up, including one at a club in Lewes this Friday. Our Elixir Bar has been cancelled due to the debacle with the same promoter for the Zenith bar but we tentatively have a slot booked at Tommy Flynn’s in Camden which can only be better – surely.
We’re headlining at The Albert on July 24, which is always a pleasure followed by a gig in Crawley at Laserhub. More news on these to follow…

We’ve just managed to put up a load of photos on the pictures section. It’s taken a while but has been worth it. It’s not quite finished as they should be divided into sections for live gigs, locations and others but you get the idea. My favourites are the Hellingly location pictures for their authenticity – we were genuinely serious about these pictures coming out well because it was dangerous getting into the building, but totally worth it. Hands down the best location pictures we have and possibly will ever get, so no apologies coming your way for the number of pics in the gallery on that one.

My other favourite album is the General Misc album which includes a selection of nostalgia and general messing around shots. It’s always good to see a band in a natural environment and – we won’t lie – location shoots aren’t our forte; although it’s not like you need it pointing out. It’s important to try different things out though – it would be tedious to go back to brick wall shooting.

Hopefully we’ll keep the live galleries up to date. It seems we haven’t catalogued many away gigs so may have to hunt down some shots.

We’ve played a gig since the last post. It was at The Zenith Bar in Islington. It was a free entry show on a Friday night. As a band not native to London, we’re generally sceptical of most gigs but this one looked ok. Not so…

I’m a firm believer that when counting up the number of people in a room watching you play, you do NOT count the bar staff, the sound enginneer or the other bands you played with. They are there against their will – the latter may fall into this catergory, it’s hard to tell.

The pub itself was reasonable: comfy sofas, intimate lighting and a good selection of drinks at the bar. The one thing missing was a clientele. If you take away the bands playing tonight, it would be safe to say that for large portions of the evening the pub was empty. Now, this isn’t a dig at the venue or the promoter (although I think morally there is the issue of dragging four people up from Brighton for this “gig”) but a venue must be doing something seriously wrong if it cannot muster ONE person through its (free entry) doors on a Friday night.

To make matters all the more galling (for the landlord as well as us), Upper Street on the next block sounded like the centre of a carnival with the young, trendy and impassioned spilling out onto pavements – happy to drink their pints in the gutter.

Somehow, we did actually manage to sell a copy of our album though. Every cloud…