Kings & Queens

ok. If i wait until this record is ready it’ll be forever so here’s an EP for collection right now… Please do enjoy. We’re off to desert to find some new tunes.

Our short lived equipment problems are over. The Vox came back to us yesterday and today we picked up a sweet new Wurlitzer from Julian (he of Legs on earth infamy). He’s a wonderfully strange man with a tripped out house museum full of incredible musical machines and other stuff. So that’s that. What else? we wandered over to see that new Neil Young movie at the Del Oro and were significantly bemused by the first half. I just want to hear Zuma and on the Beach. Still, ‘Iam a Child’ and ‘Old Laughing Lady’ made it all worth it.

We made up some EPs for that show last week and we still have some hanging around .I think i’ll try and get those on the site with one of those grey paypal buttons soon. Check this far out packaging cats; Tahiti did the cover and he’s pretty and amazing. what. I believe he’ll be the man for the job when we finally decide on a tracklist and release an album or something. But thi is just an EP – 6 tunes. According to someone from SF we sounded like Dead Meadow, The Doors and Sabbath. That’s probably completely wrong but i love it. And the sun came out.

This has been a crap entry. English-wise. Sorry.

So we need to get hold of a new (old) Wurlitzer Electric Piano. You know the 200 model that sounds so warm and fuzzed out like this. Anyone with any clues as to location of such a device should let us know…  We just had a wild weekend including home-made jalapeno poppers.

we played a show and these wonderful ladies captured some moments:
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Thank you San Francisco people and visitors again again. I think we’ll have an EP for sale this week or at least some news of more shows.

We just returned from our first show in SF at the Makeout Room. There were so many of our friends present that it couldn’t help but be a good time. Yes it was probably a mess and all that but thanks to the this fine lineup a huge amount of fun was had. Long drive back… no in-n-out either. Knackered. More later, earlier.. you know.

oh Jonathan, oh David… here’s our latest lineup getting busy. No less than one week in advance. So there will truly be a band at the makeout room next week. It may be temporary but these guys mean business – i mean, sushi and determination all at once.

The sun arrived for a day too. Everything was bad and now its goood.

i thought i should keep you all up to date but there’s not been much going on this last week. I’m grappling with a shifting line-up of peoples helping us get these tunes circulating as soundwaves in a room. The first few months of getting a band going is long and full of learning. I may be having two lineups at the same time – one covers when the others can’t kind of thing. What else? we visted with Richard Butler last week. He’s a gentleman. He still does tons of coke .The beverage that is. Just him and two over-bright guitars. Two Sheds stayed with us on the weekend – they have something wonderful happening in their sound. Check it out. They also appreciate good breakfast and the Old Grey Whistle Test.

I have some new song ideas. Maybe i’ll post them here. Maybe not. We got one day of sun.

It’s been a year almost since Andi and I travelled to Twentynine Palms, CA in searhc of peace, quiet and some wide open spaces from which to lull some melodies. Its been snowing up here in the mountains and then raining. I am ok with it but today i stumbled on some old movies from the last year and set about a little reminisce quicktime style. This is an early rough mix of Sign of Life from november. Shake out the icicles and get warm to this… if you fancy. Large | Small