We did however manage to fit in a couple of gigs in september , the first being Offset. Our set as such wasn't great but we met easy hips and tonnes of other great bands. Offset was an awesome weekend but i think we could have enjoyed it more had we not had such a long weekend.
It started on Friday afternoon, we're driving down to brighton to play the freebutt w/ Easy Hips as a warm up for offset. We were grabbing a lift from the singer of Betty Pariso ,Mazz Gambardella, however 10 minutes after leaving my house, still in Winchester, we manage to (not our fault) crash into the car infront of us leaving mazz's car looking like this: http://i34.tinypic.com/10pzy85.jpg
Anyway my dad gives us a lift to offset,we play and get very drunk all day and i pretended to be from the futureheads to get some free beer ( i don't they believed me but i guess it was just to get rid of me) Sunday was awful, the bands on that day were the ones i actually wanted to see but i managed to catch some sort of death cold (turned out to be swine flu) so i spent most of the day (and the next 7 days after that) wanting to die.
The other gig we managed to play was just eventful. 21st September i wake up and theres a text from my mate who's new clubnight started that night and he didn't have any bands so he asked if we could play. "well, i might as well, help a mate out" i thought to myself. I wish i hadn't. We got there, the PA was appauling ( we ended up doing our set instrumental). So we set up in our corner there were definitely people there, but there was A) no where for them to stand and watch the bands (theres a wall that divides the room into bar/"music venue") and B) they were not interested in seeing music. The owner complained twice about the noise during our set we then went on to be stroppy teenagers and got very shitty about the venue, owner and the people that were there. So we got banned. SO BASICALLY NO ONE EVER, EVER GO TO THE MIKIKI LOUNGE!
So in our time off since then we've managed to: finish writing the mini-album, Tom passed his driving test, I got a job (tom's on his way too), started sorting t-shirts for december tour, started writing for the BFP split. More on all this soon...
Right it's october now, we've got some siiiiiiiiiiiiick gigs this month, here they are (can we call it a tour?!):
| Belushi’s w/ Easy Hips | Brighton | ||
| The Chichester inn w/ Betty Pariso | Chichester | ||
| The Hockley Hustle@ Bodega w/ Tubelord, Shapes | Nottingham | ||
| The Packhorse w/ Hooray For Humans, Twisted | Leeds | ||
| The Tap House (Free Entry) | Kidderminster | ||
| HALLOWEEN SPECIAL D.A.N.C.E @ The Works w/ Shield Your Eyes | Kingston, London |
see you there yeah?!
xxx
