a great week

Hey all,

this week Tom did his first two gigs and they both went pretty well (except for a few hiccups here and there) London was awesome, we arrived having doubts- we thought people would dismiss us as we were by far the youngest people in the venue by couple of years at least but everyone was open minded some seemed to enjoy our set. Thanks to Garry for putting us on, he's a great guy and even offered us a very special slot sometime next year which should be great! We also met a nice (but slightly drunk) guy named Phil who was interested in booking shows for us, but we couldn't decide whether he was being serious or just humouring us.

Next up Winchester, it was a great show, nice to see lots of people coming down to shows, El Rodeo and BWL were amazing except for a few hiccups which can only be blamed on the TERRIBLE sound which was thanks to the new sound man at the railers, Keiran- he's a sound guy and everything but he's only been working there for 3 weeks now, but he'll get it soon. I felt we played quite well, but still Tom and i haven't really got the tightness i feel we could achieve, we work incredibly well together (if i say so myself) its just need more time and practice to get used to it.

Next gig is in Luton on the 28th of November, i really am quite honoured to be playing on the this bill, the other bands consist of Mirror!Mirror! and Haemostatic Picnic Races who are both incredible bands and i really can't wait for this show.

On the 19th of November we're heading into the studio to record drums for Time is Catching Up With Me and 3,5,10 (yeah, thats right we've changed it) and i'm not sure whats happening after that really, we were originally going to record the rest by ourselves but after our atrocious attempt at Classroom ( which has now been taken off myspace) we're having second thoughts, but anyway we'll give it a go and see if its good enough.

right now something thats pissing me off is our lack of driving abilities, currently Tom is ahead of me in that field and is currently receiving lessons ( i think), where as i haven't even sent off for my provisional. we have plans to go on tour in feb half term so if we wanna do that (and do it with less stress and cost) we NEED to learn to drive by then.

oh well, wish us luck and thats all for now.

xx

Spend a whole day demoing a song

hey guys,

me and tom spend blood ages making a new song in tom's bedroom with his little recording set up of two mics. woo.

anyway you can hear the new song at www.myspace.com/runwalk it's called classroom and features both tom and myself shakily singing over a roughly mixed ambient, and not song.

this week Tom has his first gig with me at the escape bar in london on the 16th with The Capsized smiles and Rose Elinor Dougall(ex-pipettes) , then 3 days later toms first winchester gig (of probably millions. fuck.) at the railway in on the 19th with DIE!DIE!DIE!, Bright White Light and El Rodeo.

anyway, thats all for now, listen to the song tell us how shit it is and come see us play it worse a at a gig.

cheers,

Matt