We played 5 to 10 to an empty room

I’ve not updated this for quite a while and as a result there are quite a few things to talk about…

T-SHIRTS! are on sale now at www.doriangay.bigcartel.com and cost £7.50. You can get the EP with a t-shirt for the slightly cheaper price of £10 too. They are available in Orange, Green and Purple, depending on what we have left. Size-wize we have YL, S, M, L. They look like this (warning crappy photographer alert)…

The design featured is the one on the previous blog entry. It’s a nice t-shirt basically.

We didn’t play the garage show we were supposed to because Tom was ill, which sucks but can’t be helped. I went and it was good (although totally would have been better if we had played) and a great time was had by all.

Jugs has left Norwich for the razzle dazzle of London, which if you arent from here doesnt mean a lot i am sure, but its a big deal because now there will be around 80% less flyers in my hand at various times. It’s also sad because he is a lovely guy and will be missed very much. We also will have far less gig offers as a result.

The last show we played was this…

And Me and Tom played hardcore songs to an empty room at this…

You should have come to that because we like good music. We played stuff like Beastie Boys, ST, Vile, Misfits, Cut The Shit and loads of other good stuff.

 Burning Love though was awesome. Despite the room not being quite as packed as i expected, there were still most of the hardcore kids that matter in Norwich in attendance. Hang The Bastard were great as ever, i never get tired of seeing them and their array of really really heavy sounding riffs. Burning Love were incredible. Their demo rules (its free so you have no excuse) and it came across even better live. I ran around like a tit for the entire set and sang along with the few bits that i knew. Then I interviewed Mr Colohan for my ‘zine which was also brilliant. Our set went down pretty well i think, and we played good from what i can recall, so that is always a bonus. It was probably the most high profile show we have played so far, and i think we probably gave a good account of ourselves. Some people were never gonna like us, but theres nothing we can do about that. Their loss or something. Jim took some pictures of me running around and screaming, which are up on our myspace, but the best couple i’ve copied over here…

Next up, we have another gig outside of Norwich, this time in London! So if you aren’t from Norwich and have said you would come and see us, you pretty much have no excuse now. Unless you are from Scotland or something.

Its a pretty weird group of bands, with all kinds of noise being made. Which is obviously a good thing. We need a lift to this so if i haven’t asked you already, help us out please.

In terms of new songs, we’ve been quite busy in recent weeks. We have two brand new songs more or less finished and ready to go, and the foundations for a further two pretty much layed out, so they should be done in a couple of weeks. Add this to our plans to record ‘Intro/Clive on 25′ and ‘The Money Will Roll Right In’ and we’ve pretty much got an EP sorted. We are aiming therefore to record this when Robbie comes back from France, probably early January ready for release on a label (tbc) in the new year. However, in addition to this, the 4 of us (without Robbie) are going to record something pretty soon. The main reason for this is to try out a few different recording methods as, as happy as we are with the first EP, we were still learning about recording and stuff and how we should sound, and i think you can hear that at times. We are going to try and replicate how we actually sound a little more closely with the next EP. So, rather than just wasting practise recording sessions etc. we have decided to get something productive out of it- a covers EP. Everything is yet to be finalised (as with the songs for the next EP) and is very much in the formalitive stages, but i think we are working towards having it done by late November/early December, with about 4 covers or something the plan. It’ll probably come out as a free download, but that is also undecided. If you are a label and are interested in putting it out, get in touch!

Finally, the third issue of my ‘zine is out now. You can buy it from www.whatwouldhenryrollinsdo.bigcartel.com

It has interviews with… Coke Bust, Ceremony, Cold Ones, Fucked Up and Reagan Youth plus all the usual ‘zine crap. It’s £1.50 and now comes with staples and a colour cover, making it look like this…

Buy it!

Thats it for now…