I'm back!

Sorry about the lack of posts - first I was ill, then I went on holiday for a few days...

But there's been some stuff going on, so let me fill you in. First off, we played a gig last night at The Good Ship, Kilburn. I've not played there before, but I've been to a couple of gigs. I really like the performance area being in a kind of pit - it feels almost voyeuristic watching a band in this way, maybe even gladiatorial, so if you don't like the performance you can send in the lions to polish the band off...

So anyway, after an awful sound check (the monitors were off-puttingly loud), we bowled over the road to the Black Lion for a couple of quick bevvies and expected the worst. Bad sound checks are the worst motivator ever... Fast forward an hour, and we jumped on stage, no monitor problems and smashed it!

Seemed to go down pretty well, and it was not a bad crowd for a Wednesday night. Got some good feedback from people who were there and had some interesting discussions with Jason from the label and Richie Kayvan, who produced our album, about what we can add to our set to improve it. It's a difficult one, really - on the one hand, we want to give a pretty good account of the album tracks in the lead-up to the release, but on the other hand, we want to keep the set fresh. Plus there's the logistics (and not insignificant cost) of getting rehearsals together to learn new songs. Then there's writing/extracting loops for Ableton, sampling the necessary sounds for Reason, etc. (Which reminds me, I need to do a post at some point about the live set-up...)

Anyway, a good time was had by all. Maybe a little too much of a good time, since I ended up with the hiccups, and got home about 3 hours later than I would have liked. Still, nothing a coffee and some ibuprofen won't fix...

In other news, it looks like the remixes have been sorted for Red Sky. We'll be releasing it in two parts - the first containing our album version, our turntable wizard Owen's dubstep remix, the Diogenes Club radio edit and No Logo's Balearic chill-out mix. The second part has a more clubby feel to it, with the full-length Diogenes Club mix, Nikola Gala's deep house mix, Borkmann's club mix and a reworking from Avatars as well. It's certainly a strong line-up, and we're dead excited about it - roll on November 30th!

[EDIT] Just been informed that the release date will now be a week later, so roll on 7th December!