Manchester Big Hands - 7th November '08

Word!!

  This was the best show ever!! We basically set this up ourselves to celebrate our single being available - PARTY TIME. We got Wonderswan and Piskie Sits to come down too and all our manchester friends and it was a rad time! Its a tiny venue so it was sweaty and ace and packed!

   Wonderswan were ace, their new songs are really cool - albeit noisy as fuck. Piskie Sits were the best i've ever seen them - its probably getting really boring us championing them all the time but i don't care because they have such good songs and are champs. Tour is going to be fun as hell.

   I think we played ok, we played December Snapshots again and also an even new one that hasn't got a name yet, it's about time we played some new songs and we're gonna try and book some studio time and get them recorded asap.

   It was rad to go to 'bring on the dancing horses' after too - a bit electro for me but it was good to have everyone around hanging out and drinking.  How ace is The Deaf Institute?!

   Had a bratwurst (?) for breakfast with Wonderswan too - beat that shit.

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Sheffield Harley - 2nd November 2008

Considering how fucking tired and disgusting we felt, Sheffield was made instantly friendly by meeting up with my old schoolmate Tom and a couple of beers. Greg slept at the venue for a couple of hours and after I waved goodbye to Tom went and discovered about twenty-eight 40p reduced sandwiches and sushi from Tesco - result!
OK, so its Sunday, its pissing it down, we're in Sheffield - I'm not sure exactly what we werer expecting but it was 300% better than what was in our heads. Cooper is a rad promoter and a good friend, we played with a cool band called The Hipshakes who kind-of sounded like Black Lips, it was nice to hang with Dan DeathByShoes too aswell as a bunch of other really nice people. The show was fun, a little restrained considering our physical state, and we played a brand-new song (I think it will be called 'December Snapshots' after by brothers old band that I got the ideo of Old Romantics off) and it went down really well.
Good friendly vibes all round again before we sold all our cds and went home!! We meandered through the Penines through dense fog and blackness with Liars on really loud before getting back, cup of tea then sleep for seven million hours - ace weekend.

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London Metro - 1st November 2008

Greg and I turned this show into a little prolonged trip to London becasue my brother and his sister live there so we got some quality sibling-time in. What normally seems like forever to get to London was in-fact fine - the drive down went really quick and a shit load of Fucked Up and Wild Beasts made the journey almost enjoyable! We chilled round Gregs sisters and went to the Mark Rothko exhibition at thw Tate Modern and ate an actual chilli-dog in some American diner which was awesome. Next day was filled with more hanging out and beers with old friends before we played The Metro on Saturday night.
The show was fun, made more fun by our friends coming along on a rainy saturday night to see us, it was a horrible night outside on busy Oxford Street. The crowd was good, lots of new faces, plus Ed (bad sneakers) and Ben (our lawyers) came down and it was a really friendly vibe.
We decided to completely un-consider we had to drive back to Sheffield for a show the next afternoon and went to a party and did all manner of wrong things until 8 am...
We must have had about two hours sleep before saying goodbye to our friends and injecting our eyeballs with bright blue energy drinks. We got to Sheffield with the aid of:
1. Windows wide open.
2. Earth records of full blast.
3. Popcorn Chicken.
4. Talking for the sake of talking (really loudly).
5. Regular changing of the voice on the TomTom (there was even an Australian one!).

Finally we got to Sheffield...

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