You're a Yob - FACT!

The tour rolls on, developing new levels of weirdness day by day... Jeremy Kyle seems to have taken us all over to the extent that everyone was overjoyed this morning (Monday) that he was back on again after the weekend - seriously, we get up at 9.30 especially. Odd. The shows have been fun, much kudos to Blah Blah Blah, Beans On Toast and Jay Pistolet for good music and good times.

The EP is out a week today. If you have time to get to your local record shop and make sure it's been pre-ordered, that'd be great. The situation is so chicken-and-egg - record shops don't think they'll shift many so they don't get many so they don't shift many... annoying. You can also preorder from places like Amazon and that. Thanks.

Moustaches are taking over, by the way... Fear the tache. And not just on me...

Moustache Blues

As anyone who was down at Frog last Saturday will be aware, I took the rash decision to try shaving myself a full on, manly 'tache. It seemed like such a good idea at the time, and for a while I felt invincible, but then I felt... shady. I think the crux was when I was introduced to some friends of friends, who then looked at me like a total escaped paedophile. I'm now frantically concentrating on growing my beard back. The only thing which would mitigate this would be the success of my plan to get everyone on the next tour to grow a tache as well. However, thusfar only Ben has agreed and it doesn't look like there's any give. Oh well.

Speaking of tours, I'm in Oxford at the moment gearing up for the next one, rehearsing the new set. It seemed important to me not to play the same songs in a different order or whatever, to try and bring something new to the table. So to that end we've got 4 songs in the set that weren't there in January / February, with one or two surprises in there and a brand new song (as yet untitled - having massive trouble with titles at the mo). Manchester on Sunday... heed the wrath.

In the meantime the Video for 'The Real Damage' (below) has been picked up by MTV2's Me Myself & I show, so keep looking for that and elsewhere. Tomorrow night is the Camden Crawl, which will be muchas fun, not least because I'm sharing a stage with my old friends Yourcodenameis:Milo. And I've been checking out the possibilities of going back to the States sooner rather than later. Pip pip.

The Real Video

Finally it's here, the video for "The Real Damage" (shot and directed by me n George Steel). Enjoy. Remember that the EP is out May 7th.

I'm at home recovering, slowly feeling better and warming up for some more band shows, in particular Frog club, this Saturday, at the Mean Fiddler, London. Playing Frog is funny - the guys who run the club are old old friends of mine, but they were never Million Dead fans, and it was always taken for granted, when I was in MD, that I'd never play at Frog. How times change... see you there.

Damn Damn Damn

A message for anyone planning on hitting up Copsale tonight for my show at the Bridge House...

I fucking utterly utterly hate doing this but basically my voice is totally fucked and there are no nice sounds coming out of me today, only croaking and quite a lot of pain... So in short I'm not going to make the gig. Justin Pistolet may well still be there for the show, havn't heard yet. But yup, a million apologies to everyone for that, I fucking hate this. Arg.

It's all the more annoying as the last batch of shows have been fucking amazing. Jay Jay, the crowds, the filming with Richard, all has been ace. I feel like shit.

Home, Home On The Range

A quick update from the Winchester FTHQ. All busy as ever, putting together stuff for the next round of touring (anyone got any crash-space in Glasgow?). Merch is coming together nicely, the EP will be here in a few days, posters have arrived... All go.

The next week or so sees a little string of dates around the south of the UK. I'm excited about these for two reasons: firstly, they're solo shows, which I've been enjoying more recently. It's nice to have a mix up between band shows and solo shows, it keeps things interesting, and there are different effects you can achieve in both situations. I'm also stoked because Jay Jay & The Pistolets will be on the tour. This means mayhem, as well as some quality chooons. We're also doing some more documentary filming type stuff at these shows, so everyone be on their best behaviour, haha...

Finally, today the Public Relations Exercise album comes out. Go listen to the myspace, realize they totally fucking rule, and go buy it.