new songs, new recordings and learning songs

well,

it's been a hectic few weeks recently, Tom and I have been practicing like fuck to get these songs down so far i think we have 5 and 3/4 of a new song done.

I'm also teaching Tom another new song tomorrow, its got loads of looping and is quite not like us, it's not that we're taking a majorly different direction its just an experimental song i guess.

This will be recorded soon (can't say when, but soon) and it may or may not appear on the myspace and other online communities ( but again i can't guarantee this)

but anyway, we didn't win that subways thing, sleepyhead did, and the best of luck to them at the gig.

but onto gigs that we ARE playing:

besides this we have also just been confirmed for a gig at the George 2nd in Luton (infamous for its cheap drinks which has claimed many victims so i've heard) on november the 28th

this is going to be an amazing gig, its with a band i've loved for ages HPR ( haemostatic picnic races) and another band called Yonoghani and another special act which are TBC.

anyway, thats all for now

Please vote for us to support the subways

Taken from myspace/facebook :

"IT LITERALLY TAKES 5 SECONDS, you don't have to sign up to anything, just go on the link and click on the button on the left.

Basically,
ages ago we entered a competition on XFM to support the subway's at London Brixton Academy on October 15th.
Turns out us and 3 other bands have been chosen out of thousands as the 4 finalists.

what's happening is the 4 bands are being played on xfm from monday to thursday and then people can vote and feedback on our XFM uploaded profile (http://www.xfmuploaded.co.uk/runwalk)

we're being played on TUESDAY night (thats tomorrow) at about 11PM so we'd be absolutely thrilled if you could listen in and vote for us. ultimately The subways have got the decision of who plays so who knows.

anyway if you guys could help us out it would mean a lot,
and more exciting news coming soon!

matt and tom"

we've also just booked a day to track the drums for our 7" :)

Going good

y'alright mate?

yeah mate, me and Tom have had two practices now, things are going good we've managed to get 4 songs dialled, we've got one more than we need to finish off 2 of the half written songs we've done. The songs have a new energy to them, and i'm so excited for you guys to hear Tom's versions of the songs.

Anyway, releases.

Tom and i are going to be releasing a 7" (if you didn't know) we're going to record it pretty much ourselves, we're tracking the drums at a local studio early november then we'll do the bass and vocals ourselves then send it off to some person with skills to mix and master it!

The track listing for the record is going to be :

Time is Catching up With Me

N.B.Y

also with the 7" you'll get a CDr with those 2 songs on it so you can put them on your computer also the CD will have probably about 3 or 4 songs that we're going to demo with our mate Josh Bruty. (expect an acoustic song and an ambient, electro epic as well as two new songs which we'll be playing live at the 19th of october as well)

anyway, we'll get back to you soon once we've found out more details about the whole thing.

We will be gigging a bit before xmas but we're mainly going to start in the new year and especially in half terms we'll be out on the road.

anyway, thanks for reading if you did.

matt

band practices and stuff

hey,

i don't know why I'm still up right now. been watching family guy all evening pretty much and my back hurts from sitting in this god damn chair.

anyway, basically I'm typing here to say me and Tom are having our second ever band practice ( i guess you could say its our first one, the other one was just a "jam")

from our jam sessions we have a few ideas for new songs and we shall be working on those soon but for now we need to just work on songs for the set. 

This coming week we will be announcing tom's first gig which will be soon ,and it's probably going to be playing with biggest band we've ever played with so it should be a gooden!

we're both getting too excited about unleashing this all new run,WALK! on everyone, obviously Tom brings in a lot of different influences to the band so who knows what the new songs will turn out like. Tom will also be sharing the vocal duties with me, giving me more time for more complicated bass/pedal stuff and running around. I'm tempted to start doing a "blakfish" where you run into the crowd hoping to hit someone but fortunately you don't normally. however I'm not as hedonistic as blakfish, and also with my bass having a longer neck i fear it may result in some serious damage. basically all I'm saying don't come to our gigs anymore, you may lose an eye.

this has turned into a massive essay, it was only meant to be a couple of lines and i probably still had more important stuff to say but oh well.

peace xx

The End of an Era but a bright future

Hey there, 

it's Matt here, I'm here to inform you about some major changes going on around here.

James has decided to quit the band, sensibly he decided that he wanted to put his college studies and other commitments first and the band was taking up too much time and effort. There are no hard feelings between us, we're still the best of friends but i always felt James' hasn't really been into the band as of recently so i think it's best he called it a day. However he won't be just leaving, he's playing one last gig with me as run,WALK!  it's at Hampton's Bar in Southampton on September 19Th (Friday) we will be supporting Lonely Ghosts and Will Doyle there are more acts to be confirmed so we'll get back to on that. It'd be great if everyone could come down and show James some love as its his last gig. James and I started this band a couple of years ago as a jam band and i guess it just got a bit too serious for his liking and i wish him all the luck in future with his college & university courses which I'm sure he'll ace!

so what's happening right now then? we'll we're( I'm) not breaking up, James informed a few months back that he didn't wish to continue the band past the end of college. so me, not wanting to stop the band that i have put my life and soul into for the past 2 years i went looking for a drummer to join at the end of college. well he's joining now. His name is Tom Clements, he's the drummer from Feralmare(1st band in our top 8)  as well. This man may be half (quarter)the size of James in height but he certainly knows his way around the drum kit, and another plus he's like one of our biggest fans so he's it's gonna work well. Tom's first gig is yet to be confirmed but it will be soon. Tom and I are going to take the band to another level, and will be gigging, recording and releasing  stuff as much as possible. Anyway more information on that later. Here's what tom looks like :