it had to write this shit out twice…

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.

Severed pig head of state…

I say this in every single entry that I do of this blog, but I really should update this more regularly. This term I have an excuse though because I’m not studying something that I actually fucking love (history) so doing Uni work is something I actually like doing now, rather than finding anything to do instead. But I’m sitting in my warm bedroom in Southend right now, so I’ve got time to do stuff like this.

So what have we been up to since the end of October? Quite a bit…

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.

LADS LADS LADS

 

The last time I updated this we had just played the release show for our EP. I mentioned then a few upcoming shows, but I’ve not got any new flyers for those yet, so I’ll just post them as they are done.

Anyway, most recently we played 3 shows in the space of 4 days. One of them would be generous to call a show really, but I’ll get to that. Anyway, the first was up in Nottingham, for ‘Corefest’. We were all pretty excited about this as previously we had only played one show outside the fine city, and that was in Windsor. We are looking to play more shows around the country in the coming weeks and months. Basically all I want to do is tour for a few weeks and have fun with some of my best friends, but for now this will suffice. Robbie was back for all 3 shows we played this week, as he had a break in between his summer job in France, and starting uni, also in France. It was good to have him back. We met him up in Nottingham, and played without having a prior practise because we are punx. Getting up there was quite frankly an ordeal, as I was feeling a bit worse for wear, due to a lack of sleep, drinking too much wheat beer the day before and not being a good traveller. It was still pretty fun, spraying beer out the window, eating stuff from petrol stations, shouting along to The Cure and discussing the laddish merits of different things such as windfarms (in my opinion, very much laddish) with Luke, who was kind enough to drive us, asking for only petrol money and some food. He’s a champ.

Dog City is out now!

The last couple of updates here have concerned the release of our new EP, ‘Dog City’. Unfortunately this one is no different. Until people buy them all I’m gonna have to try and fight the complete apathy that some people in Norwich and beyond have, despite saying stuff like ‘support the scene’. Anyway, I digress. The EP has now been printed, assembled and everything else and is ready for people to buy. Here are pictures for you to judge.

More pictures of the ep!

All 4 colours of our pretty tapes

The CDs

If you don’t come to the release show and don’t buy one, you are dead to me.

Tapes and CD’s

Tapes and CDs without artwork! Available from 4th September at our EP release show at the Marquee, Norwich. COLLECT ALL THE COLOURS! Info about buying online/downloads/quantities etc. soon.

It’s been a month since i last wrote anything here…

One of the main reasons behind this is the fact that I’ve been at home and not doing very much, so things on the band front haven’t been too busy.

There are a few interesting things to update people on though.

The EP’s have all been printed and stuff, all that left is to finalise and print the artwork and they will be on sale! The release date we’ve got for them is 4TH SEPTEMBER 09, and conveniently on that date we also have a show, which is a release show of sorts.

I’ll post a picture of the finished articles when they are done, as well as an online link to buy it should you wish to give us your money. The EP will be released on CD, Tape and Download. (Keeping it old school and new school at the same time)

So that is next up, and following that we have COREFEST, as previously mentioned on the 12th, as well as another show at The Marquee on the 14th, but that is yet to be fully confirmed. Robbie is going to be back from France to play both shows, and we can’t wait to have him back… not that we miss him both personally or in band terms, but we feel a bit sorry for him.

There’s a load of other stuff coming up after that as well, including a show in our friends garage in Norwich on the 26th. Flyer…

If you want details about where it is, get in touch with us.

More on stuff after that closer to the time… I will say this though, a third WWHRD house show is in the pipeline. Hopefully from September (when I move back to Norwich) we will be able to get a load of new songs done, I’ve built up a lot of ideas for songs over the summer and I’m itching to get back into things full time. We also have a couple of covers planned, including one band which you might not expect.

We have just got a page on facebook, so if you are reading this and you use facebook, add us up! It’s actually easier to use than MySpace and good for instant updates, but harder to make it personal or put up songs. Oh well.

Finally, I will just mention our last gig…

We kind of got asked to do this last minute, but I’m rather glad we did. Although we didn’t play to too many people, it was good to see some of the regular faces again. We also played probably the best set we have without Robbie, and it’s up there with our best sets overall, even if I did fuck up the lyrics to one song. I think I might attribute some of the success to the free food and beer provided by Lucy, Pete and Dempsey which went down rather nicely, but we also should take credit for being awesome I suppose. Thanks to Dempsey for putting us on, and thanks to James Hull, a fellow Norwich regular who played first and put up with me heckling him (in a friendly way of course), I enjoyed his set, it’ll be good to see him again around the fine city. Zapian and Above Them also played, with both playing a sort of melodic punk. Zapian recalled Jawbreaker and stuff like that and were really good, and Above Them sounded like they are big fans of Hot Water Music (I mean that in a nice way). Anyway I had a good evening before heading off to the Bell and Waterfront with Wes and co. I miss Norwich when I’m not there.

Until the next time I can be arsed to update this… oh and I’m still planning to write about the last house show, at some point anyway.

I love Norwich

Thanks to everyone there on Tuesday, we love you all very much and had a great night. Norwich is now officially my favourite place in the world. Playing gigs in other places just makes you realise how great everyone/the people i know in Norwich are. I’ll post some more when i get around to it, theres a bit to catch up on…

This corefest thing we are playing…

the guy putting it on has done a big thing about all the bands playing, so i pasted it here.