A big thank you to everyone who came down to the Guildford Andover show. I had a lot of fun. The night didn’t go down without a technical hitch…. Andy from A Stranger In Moscow couldn’t reschedule his work so A Stranger In Moscow played their set without him. At the last moment Jonny filled in on guitar and, not knowing any of the songs, just jammed away. It was much better than you’d think too. He even took over singing for one song. They figured Jon should pitch in about 15 minutes before the set up to play. There was no rehearsal.

Besides the terrible sound on stage, and the practically non-existent (in volume anyway) foldback amp for Freddy, we made lemonaid with lemons. Our second show performing the songs (ever) and it was clearly better than the first. Still didn’t get the right tuning at the start of one song. Not good. Taken as a whole though, good.

In other unrelated news, keep checking out Steve Daoud’s illustration blog. He has produced two illustrations for us and a third is on the way. His latest story is about a fisherman. I loved ‘the Discontented Bear’ so I’m looking forward to how this one turns out…
http://stephen-daoud.co.uk/blog/website-updates-and-maintenance/the-joys-of-progress/

Now, time to not sleep, quit procrastinating, and spend the next 19 hours writing my yet-to-be-started essay on ethics and the Bible. This isn’t the place for theological ramblings but I’m going to enjoy this one. Widows, orphans, strangers, the poor, disabled, the sinners, thieves, outcasts and oppressed… Jesus gravitated towards people like that. Remarkable. That’s all.

1. Don’t talk about dust
2. Stereoscope
3. Vivo molto
4. Hour of the wolf
5. Barricades
6. He’s wired
7. Vespertilio
8. Emissary sleepers
9. We’re not coming home
10. Analogues

One song on our myspace/bandcamp will be renamed soon… so 13 Cards = Vivo molto.

Somehow we’ve ended up with 4 different languages between the song titles and album name (English/Portuguese/Italian/Latin) even though I believe none of us are particularly fluent in anything besides English (Jon’s getting better at German).

Also, we had one of our (unmastered) songs released on a 30-track Alter The Press compilation along with Thursday and New Found Glory and a host of other fantastic bands and artists! You can check out the compilation here. I jumped the gun and called it “Stereoscope” by mistake, the actual song is “Vivo molto” (or 13 Cards).

Next up: the artwork for the record (maybe)