We're now 3 gigs into having Jamie on-board filling bass duties, and he's fucking Owning it (check the video from that recent Tomassi gig, first few songs of the set and he looks like he might take someones head off with the moves of rock!). Jamie's been a friend of all of ours for many years, I first met him back in 2001 when his band Purple Sticky Punch (later PSP, then Errander..) played Royal Park Cellars and he's been a sterling gent of a dude for as long as I've known him. Oh yeah, and he drives. And he loves Downset and Madball. Lets face it, I'm in love with Jamie Silver..there, feel better now that's out in the open..
Ahem. And another shock revelation - we now have merch! Our friend Tom Pratt of Printshop screenprinters (and We'll Die Smiling) kindly facilitated my want of 30 shirts - a design appeared out of nowhere on Sunday night, and by Wednesday the thing was an actual physical entity. Have re-designed the CDr inlay..was a monolith of a design, took Insane amount of hours (well, maybe 10-ish?) but was fully worth it (well, for me!! blog entries on this and the shirt design soon..), and hopefully people will dig it. Just took receipt of a stack of the Rolo Tomassi split 7"s , so we'll be selling these at gigs from now on, and we've still got pin badges and bottle openers, these we seem to give away...I've also done the original lyric sheet poster on A3 card, in case anyone ever wants it (I think it looks pretty good, but then I would..!) and, well, there's lots of other fun / weird / pointless things but those you have to come to the gig to see..if you're an e-buyer, we now have a Big Cartel page :
antares.bigcartel.com
I've never done one of these before, so we'll see how it goes, but the page is up so can only assume that orders work, you can give me money over the internet....this is a Massively bizarre concept to my backward mind, we'll see....oh, and gigs..
So yeah, we seem to be in the middle of a right great spree of gigs - not that everything before wasn't, but y'know..the Easter Sunday alldayer with Amen Ra and a shit-stack of other awesome bands was one of the best days out we've had in a long time, Rolo Tomassi lent us their fans for one night only the other week so we got to play to a full-ish room of people who might actually dig our sound, so that was a thrilling experience (people danced, they actually danced!!), and the next thing we've got is an alldayer which has this beaut of a flyer attached to it
then this with our awesome friends Lavotchkin, Crocus and Run,Walk! :
..and gigs with Crocus are being sorted for mid-July, these are down South (more info soons....) and....well, there's more but nowt fully sorted yet.
for now, enjoy the first two songs of our most recent set - am starting to think a live stream of future gigs might be something to sort out :
Steve
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