Off to Germany.

posted by Joe.

Just checking in before we head off to Germany on Wednesday night. Really looking forward to the gigs and cruising over there. Thilo and his girlfriend, Angie, have flown over already to go to his sister's wedding so we'll be meeting them there. We've all just taken a wee bit of time off after the release of the first single. We hope you all liked it and thanks so much to those of you who have bought it and given us feedback on it. It means a lot to us. I'm really looking forward to you hearing the double A-side coz you ain't heard nothing yet!
Karina and I went to the Indian Summer festival here in Glasgow this weekend and were, again, completely blown away by the phenomenon that is the Flaming Lips live. If you've never seen them before I thoroughly recommend it. Emotional, fun, beautiful, funny, exciting, and more emotional. They will change you're life! Those guys really know how to put on a show. (More recommended purchases include their DVD "The Fearless Freaks"). The rain stayed off for us (mostly) and other bands that impressed were Wilco (they were also totally dynamite actually), Midlake, Maps and Make Model. Guy Garvey from Elbow was there presenting a show on BBC 6 so was stoating about and Karina tried to go up and talk to him (as he is a bit of a hero of the bands) but she told me she made an arse of it and ended up insulting his mate!! Nice one Kaz.
Anyway, we look forward to seeing you Scots at a homecoming gig after the Germany dates and if for those of you who are coming to see us in Germany; we can't wait to see you up the front!! See you at the beach!!

Web site and The Blue of You.

posted by Joe.

Hi folks. What do you think of the website then. No too shabby I think you'll agree! Thanks a lot to Greg again for doing such a great job. We now have our own shop too! I'm so excited that I've just moistened myself a little bit. Here, you can buy our new t-shirts that our lovely in house designer, David Eunson, designed himself. Oh, he is a talented little hairy bass monkey ain't he. You can also pre order the forthcoming single and you'll find links where you'll be able to find "The Blue of You" to download! It's still out there so if you haven't got yourself a copy yet, what are you doing ya stingy bam!? It is only 79p dagnammit!
Talking of "The Blue of You"; a massive thanks to everyone who came along to the launch at Octopus Diamond on the 21st June. We hope you had as much fun as we did. It was one of those shows where I felt we were firing on all cylinders. Sure, we had a few mistakes and stuff, but when you are playing with loads of passion it sounds better when you muck it up! Thats what we tell Tony to make him feel better anyway! We had such an amazing time and want to thank Amplifico for coming along to play as well. The track was played on XFM the night of the gig by Jim Gellatly and is going to be featured on the Three From Leith podcast this week by Grant Mason. You can listen to Three from Leith on Grant's website if you follow the hyperlink or you can subscribe to it on iTunes.
This month we'll be heading off to play a couple of dates in Germany and we're really looking forward to it. I'm gonna try and film loads of it so I can make a wee tour video to show you all when we get back. We're also gonna try and get a few old videos from the DVDs up on our youtube site so add us as a friend on that and subscribe to our videos so you know when they're up. Anyway by for now. Make sure you pre-order the new single!!!!