Monday, September 10th, 2007
The trouble with gigs that go well is that it just makes going back to the day job that extra bit more unpleasant.
Monday mornings are bad enough at the best of times, but when you’ve spent the last few days doing what you’d much rather be doing full-time, the idea of sitting in an office for eight hours doesn’t appeal much.
The Brighton gig last night was great. It was our first gig there, but a lot of the crowd were singing along, and the people of Brighton definitely win the award for best dancing of the tour so far. It was a nice little nostalgia trip to go back to Brighton – Toby and I have got a lot of good memories from gigs with our previous band. Disappointingly, I didn’t have time to go to Grubb’s Burgers, but we were able to feed the jukebox at the Heart and Hand. And there were Oreo cookies on the rider.
Still, we’ve got more gigs this week to look forward to, including a trip to Spain. I’m really looking forward to Thursday’s gig at the 100 club, which will feature an extra special extended LS line-up. Anyone who came to the gig at the millennium dome (or the Hope and Anchor last new year’s eve) should have an idea of the treats in store…
Malcolm
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
So we’re
FINALLY on tour! It seems like forever since we started the band and we thought, we should really get out on tour and play to people who might not have heard of us before. And lo and behold, some 2 years later here we are!
We’re in our nice red tour bus having left our Rusty Steed ‘Alan’ (our slightly shit van) in Greenwich, but shock horror none of the TVs work. Suffice to say the management will be getting a strongly worded letter of complaint, something about ‘catastrophes’ and ‘disasters’.
We must also welcome the newest member of the LS crew which is our delightful tour manager “Robbie Gee”. Robbie seems like a nice bloke but and the moment he’s being strong and silent whilst we speed up the M1 towards our first gig in Glasgow.
Due to the wonders of Laptops and bluetooth enabled mobiles this is coming to you from the back of the van as we sit around and listen to Radio 3, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I’ll sure they’ll be updates galore after the gig and from around the country.
stay safe, and if you think being in a band is glamorous check out this shot from the back of the van…
Ivor….
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
Especially after getting back from Newport late last night, having spent Friday up in Glasgow for my granny’s 100th birthday. The jet-setting rock and roll lifestyle never ends…
Having said that, I’m taking a break from the band for a couple of weeks as I get ready to get married on Friday.
Meanwhile the rest of them will be hard at work getting ready for acoustic sets at the merc festival in carnaby street next sunday, and then the Vibrasons festival in Pontevedra (in the northwest corner of Spain) the following week while I’m on honeymoon. Weirdly I’ll only be about 50 miles away from Pontevedra, in Santiago de Compostela, but I’m resisting the temptation to go along and watch. I’m sure they’ll have a great time, and our friends from Elefant records in Madrid will be there to look after them.
I’ll come back refreshed and looking forward to getting out on our first tour in september.
Malcolm
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Hooray we have a new blog! And about time too I reckon seeing as we have about a gazillion things to catch up on since we last spoke. It’s all been a bit mental lately, what with opening the rather big O2 arena, morphing into cats in Japan (we’ll explain later!) and frolicking around the British countryside following Bryan Ferry and his spangly suit jacket.
Andrew has a new lady in his life. Her name’s Barbara and she’s a lovely old out of tune upright piano that now sits in our studio. She sounds like old school halls and smells like it too. We’ll get her on the second album!
Anyway, here’s a pic of us as little matchstick men.
Ali x x x
