One in a million (well, 1 in 1210)

The Americans have given us our visas, so we can definitely, definitely join the insanely long list of bands playing at the CMJ Music Marathon next week. Now it’s all official, we can start to get excited.

It’s hard to know whether we’ll get many people turning up – it all seems a million miles away, and without an American record label there’s no real way of getting feedback. There have been a few people saying nice comments on our forum and this blog, and some nice bloggers like Music Snobbery and Chromewaves have been putting the word around, so hopefully we’ll get a few people through the doors. The new songs seemed to go down quite well at the warm-up gig last night, so we’re all set to go. Just one more warm-up (at King’s College, supporting Those Dancing Days on Tuesday night) and then get on the plane. Never mind that we still haven’t sorted out the equipment, we’ll figure something out.

Only a few more days to go before we go. Pancakes and maple syrup. Coffee and donuts. Pizza pie (whatever that actually means). Mom’s apple pie. Bagels and coffee from street vendors. Signs that say Walk Don’t Walk (although I heard that NYC has got rid of them now). Bring it on…