New Video

Ah, finally, the video is up online. At the moment you can watch it on my myspace profile - I'll be adding it in other web places later on. It's also being played on Q, The Box, MTV2 and Topshop TV (ahahaha. No really, ahahaha) at the moment, so keep your eyes peeled people.

There's been one addition to the tour dates so far (Newcastle) as well. People in Cardiff and Glasgow need to settle down and consider the fact that it's unlikely I'd do a full UK tour and miss out two capital cities... Also, people hitting me up about support slots, I don't want to sound offish, but it's been sorted for the most part, and on the few occasions where it hasn't I have a list as long as my arm of bands / singers I'm going to ask... So, probably not worth that email then.

I'm going on holiday tomorrow for a week. I shall return with a tan. Have fun in my absence.

EDIT: Still going on holiday, but here's the vid courtesy of youtube:

Album Tour Bonanza!

Yup, the album tour is here. This is going to be special... I'll be playing with a full band for most of my set, Dive Dive are main support and Beans On Toast is on most of the dates as well. You can find the dates here. There's a few more TBC as well, so hopefully I'll have the whole of the UK covered. The album will be out by then too so you'll all have had a chance to learn the words, haha...

Crazy weekend. Had two shows booked (one of them a surprise gig for Ollie) but ended up playing four... spent Saturday and half of Sunday hanging out with The Tailors and actually ended up playing at both their shows, even playing guitar for them for a tune in Brixton, which was aceness. On the downside, I got fucking mugged in Brixton after the show by some cuntoids who got my wallet (with no money in it) but left my phone / passport / cash. Dipshits.

The Video for Vital Signs will be up online tomorrow, at last. Apologies for the delay, we've had some technical issues.

Played with a band called Mozzy Green in Harlow last night, and they were throughly excellent (and lovely people to boot). Go check them out, minions! See you all on tour.

New Website

Yup, pretty obvious post this, but I got round to updating the website (well, all apart from the 'Press' section, which is coming soon). Of particular interest is the extended links section, where I put myspace links for all the UK people I could think of off the top of my head who I would recommend (apologies if I left anyone totally obvious out). There's also an extended FAQ, which I'm hoping people will actually read this time round. For the many people who've been asking, the new artwork was done by Chris Pell. It clearly rules, and more of his stuff can be found at this site.

Then of course there's new stuff up on the myspazz. Glad that people seem to be liking it for the most part. My wek of total organization and getting my shit together is hopefully going to continue, with the new video and the new tour dates hopefully up in the next few days. Huzzah.

Cosmo just sent me his new CD, which was recorded while he was arsing around South America. I shall be enjoying it over the next few days, no doubts. Oxford tomorrow, the world the day after.

"Lately I've been feeling no pain..."

Back at FTHQ after a stretch of Scottish shows, which were much fun. A general "hoots mon" to everyone at the shows. The Kilmarnock show for yesterday fell through so I ended up gatecrashing my friend Jane's houseparty, which was pretty manic (involved me learning a song off Pochohontas too). Feeling the burn today, which is not an activity I enjoy at the best of times, and getting on a plane is not the best of times for me. Ungood.

A week of hard work ahead - finishing everything for the album, a couple of gigs on the horizon, finalizing the details of the January album tour, that kind of thing. Speaking of the album tour, for those who hadn't noticed, it's going to feature me with a backing band for the first time. I've done nearly 200 shows on my own now and I'm majorly looking forward to having a rhythm section behind me - not for the whole of the set, mind, but most. Dive Dive will also be on the tour, and much fun will be had by all, no doubts. It's going pretty much everywhere in the UK, rest assured.

Dregs... My friend Peter Hill took some photos of me on the Automatic tour recently, and has been good enough to post them up on his site here. Check it. There's a big website redesign on the way, which will include my myspasm page - new songs going up, innit, plus also the video for Vital Signs (at last). I've been rediscovering Josh Rouse. He rules. Go listen.

EDIT: Wow, I'm on fire today. A couple of new tracks now up on myspace - check it out.

The Long Run-up to Christmas

Yeah, I know I'm getting started early. Still in my sick bed but working like an ant as per usual. Lots going on at the moment, one part of which is a big website redesign which is going to make the whole online operation run a lot more smoothly. This is a poor excuse to explain why things have been a bit haphazard of late. Oh well. Anyways, the first single from the album is going to be a free download released on Christmas Day. If you want to get it, you have to go here and follow instructions. Have fun.

I have been mostly rocking out to Oppenheimer and Family Guy series 5.

I'm bad in bed under the doctor...

Got back home today at about 3pm after a harrowingly shite train journey down from Birmingham (I was at the Music Live expo yesterday with the good chaps at Play Music Magazine). The Automatic tour is done - major thanks to them and their crew for being thoroughly lovely people to tour with. Shout outs to Alterkicks and Viva Machine too. Much fun was had by all, hello new friends, and the party on Friday was suitably debaunched.

Got a few days here in Winchester, much to do as ever, mainly trying to nail the sleeve design for the album. Speaking of albums, there's a tracklisting preview thing here. The tour for next year is coming together nicely. It's all go basically. But first: a bath.