Reading / Leeds / DVD

Well, that was quite a weekend. Shortly put, Reading & Leeds were fucking amazing. Thanks to everyone who came down to watch my sets and made them special. Here's a little piece of footage from Reading, for those of you who weren't there:

Also, just for the record, here's the definitive information about my forthcoming DVD, 'All About The Destination'. It's due out for the end of September, but it'll be onsale on the UK Softcore Tour before then. It contains the following awesome stuff:

• 'Toil & Peaceful Life' - A tour documentary made last summer by Rachel Brook.
  
• Three oficial music videos, for Casanova Lament, Vital Signs and The Real Damage
  
• A selection of home-made fan music videos
  
• 11 live performanes from 6 different shos, including the original recording of The Ballad of Me & My Friends
  
• Hand-written guitar tab for the whole of 'Sleep Is For The Week'
  

...which makes for a pretty fresh DVD in my opinion. Enjoy.

Charity Auction

I've contributed the original handwritten lyrics to Casanova Lament to a charity auction. The money is for Cancer Research UK, and there's more info at www.beforetheygetfamous.com (!).

I can vouch for the item, i wrote these words on getting out of the shower in Bristol, you'll be pleased to learn. Get bidding here.

I've Got A Brand New Geeeeetar

Continuing in this summer's theme of "Wait a minute, this was supposed to be kind of downtime, why the fuck is everything going insane?", things have been, um, going insane. Recent highlights have included fun and frolics with The King Blues, shooting live performances in Tottenham (more on that later), near-heart-attacks about routing itineraries, and GETTING MY NEW GUITAR. I'm going to do a full post on this with pictures when I get them, but suffice to say this for now: Patrick Eggle has built me a new guitar, and it's the best fucking instrument I've ever played ever. Full stop. Check him out for more info.

Two more little things: first up, tickets for the London show of the tour are finally on sale here. And for anyone interested on what Ben from Million Dead is up to, look at this. And weep.