I spent an hour or so writing a blog entry out before only for my computer to fuck up and lose it. Which is annoying because I’m now writing it out as I can remember it and I wasted a good hour. Anyway, as I said in the last draft of this, it’s been a while since I wrote. I’ve said this probably each entry, so there is doing anything out of the ordinary and not putting it… plus this way I get to be self deprecating which is pretty in right now I think.
We’ve been pretty busy, although in all different ways in the last few months. I mentioned the February Marquee show in the last blog entry, which went really well and raised a decent amount for Haiti. It also seems like a good time was had by all. Neither Throats nor Hammers were able to play in the end, but Lonewolves proved brilliant headliners and Wolfbeast Destroyer- a really good d-beat/hardcore band from Boston played instead, so it wasn’t the end of the world by any means. We actually got the best reception and reaction I think we have ever received which was brilliant. Our last couple of songs ended up being pretty ridiculous with everyone piling on and pinning me to the ground, as the picture below shows.
There are more pictures from the show on our Myspace if you are that way inclined.
It ended up being Jack’s final show with us, as I mentioned before, Console Wars are gonna be bigger than The Stranglers so he hasn’t got enough time for the demands of being in Norwich’s most unpopular 80’s throwbacks… let alone us. As I said before, we are sad that we won’t have such a great guy in the band anymore, he was the inspiration for the dystopian classic ‘Dog City’ and in general is the exact kind of person you would want in a band. Luckily for us we managed to find a pretty brilliant replacement with relative ease. Nic also plays in Sharp Teeth- www.myspace.com/wearesharpteeth and is from Norwich. He got in touch having seen us live a couple of times. We started practising in January with him and never really looked back; he has learnt the songs, helped write new ones and is an all round great guy and everything seemed to fit pretty much straight away. We played our first show with him in March at the Marquee which was pretty good and have plenty more lined up. Initially it looked like he was going to play the February show but he managed to pierce his eardrum a few days before, so we had to get Jack to fill in. It ended up being a pretty good move (apart from the horrific injury) as it was a good way to end things with Jack and move onto the next chapter of the Dorian Gay saga.
Two of us have also started/joined new bands as well as our Dorian Gay responsibilities. My new band are called Jackals (www.myspace.com/wearejackals) and we play fast hardcore. We have a 7” out soon, you can get it from www.whatwouldhenryrollinsdo.bigcartel.com. Pete has joined Teratoid www.myspace.com/neglectuk and plays drums for them too.
We have put ‘Dog City’ up for free download, if you want it but resent giving us a couple of quid for a tape or CD then you can have it here- http://www.mediafire.com/?yywfgn4ulym of course if you want to buy it you can still do so at www.doriangay.bigcartel.com
Also in our show we have some new t-shirts than to the good people at www.myspace.com/vinosangre look at them…
As the cultured /fans of famous naked people among you will know, it features Ginsberg and Peter Olovsky, who was a big fan of the band, as the logo on his chest indicates. They are 6 quid, come in the usual sizes and are printed on Starworld t-shirts which are really soft and nice, and ethically manufactured too, so everyone is happy! As if that wasn’t enough, we’ll chuck a free EP in with every t-shirt. As everyone knows, hardcore isn’t about the physical product, it’s about sweet t-shirts.
We’ve got a couple of shows in the pipeline, including an awesome string of dates we are lining up for the summer. More on those later. Our next confirmed show though is this one…
All the bands rule (I would think that as I’m putting them on, but whatever). Come see us play.
I didn’t mention it last time, but we got mentioned on the Artrocker website. This means I’m cooler than you yeah? www.artrocker.com/node/20308
I think that’s everything for now… I’ll update this next time there is something worth saying/I can be arsed, whichever comes sooner.
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