We have been recording an album.

We have one more day of recording (mid december) in which we'll finish it hopefully.

It will have ten songs and last about 30 minutes.

We have titles and everything.

Played with Shield Your Eyes and Nitkowski @ The Mothers' Ruin on Feb 5th. That was fabtastic. Both of them were so brilliant. Nitkowski made me want to dance, I smiled throughout. Shield Your Eyes assaulted everyone, in the best possible way.
 
We went up to Manchester on 7th Feb to play a house party with Klaus Kinski, Team Victory, Cryptic Salve Band, Dan the guitarist and another band I don't know the name of. The basement was small and perfect. The ceiling was too low for me to stand up straught and we only had one mic. But it made for an amazing evening, night, early morning. I can only apologise for being such an old tired man. Klaus Kinski were proper brill. A horrifically massive industrial clunking beast. Exactly how a band called Klaus Kinski sounds in your dreams.
"Lots of people thought it was nonesense" Someone said to me.
 
We played in London on Friday 13th, at the Lexington, with Part Chimp and Todd. It was a proper big show. It felt quite strange. I had to get the train up after work so couldn't bring my amp. Sadly I'm too much of an idiot to know how to use someone elses effectively so my guitar sounded nothing like how I'd like it to. We played ok. Could've gone worse. Aled's voice cracked at one point and that was very funny.
 
We played at the Junction on Saturday 14th. Val's Day. This was probably the best gig ever. A Local Kid love in. Chaps, us, Corey O's, Vile Vile Creatures, Winston Echo & Husbands. Bloody awesome. The Corey O's were so great I'm struggling to get my head round it. I think I'll think back fondly on the whole shebang fondly for hopefully many years to come. Also, Winston Echo destroyed everyone.
"It's interestingly terrible." Someone unimpressed said.

We played at the Kings Tavern in Reading on Sunday 15th. It were well fun. The gig room was a lovely friend's 18th type disco room with classic social club red patterend carpet. We played after The Shitty Limits, they were inspirational! We enjoyed our set lots. Perhaps the most fun we've had in quite a while. After us was Rampant Rabbit, who were deceptively funky, and then it was Sly and The Family Drone who ended their set with a brilliant piece of audience participation. We all played the drums.
 
We played at the St.James Wine Vaults on Tuesday 17th. It was with Annie Hysterical Injury, Venus Bogardus and The Naturals. The Naturals are disgustingly young and frighteningly competent. Annie's voice was so brilliant. The room was pretty stunned I think. It were well bonza fun. The Wine Vaults is our favourite venue. We played well I think and most people watched our whole set. They could have wandered off if they wanted. Some probably did. Venus Bogardus played a mammoth 45minute set. I knew lots of the songs, they're so good they're like a proper band. I got home late and drunk.

Cool. Look at all the proper bands in this Organ end of year albums list!

You can find it here. Follow the links on the latest issue.

Anyway, here is the top 20:

1: F*CKED UP – The Chemistry Of Common Life (Matador)
2: KAYO DOT - Blue Lambency Downward (Hydrahead)
3: FIGHT LIKE APES - ...The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion (Model Citizen)
4: RUDE MECHANICALS – Glass Eye (Rim)
5: DEERHOOF - Offend Maggie (ATP/R)
6: EXPERIMENTAL DENTAL SCHOOL – Jane Doe Loves Me (Cochon)
7: MARTIN ORFORD – The Old Road (GEP)
8: VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR - Trisector (Virgin
9: SHEARWATER – Rook (Matador)
10: ZACH HILL – Astrological Straits (Ipecac)
11: ROSE KEMP – Unholy Majesty (One Little Indian)
12: BLACK ELK – Always A Six, Never A Nine (Crucial Blast)
13: THE WELCOME WAGON – Welcome To... (Asthmatic Kitty)
14: THE JELAS – Blood Smash (Ingue)
15: BLACK MOUNTAIN – In The Future (Jagjaguwar)
16: MOHA! – One Way Ticket To Candyland (Rune Gramophone)
17: VESSELS – White Fields And Open Devices (Cuckundoo)
18: NISENNENMONDAI – Tori/Neji (Smalltown Supersound)
19: CAPILLARY ACTION - So Embarrassing (Pangaea)
20: GRAILS – Doomsdayer's Holiday (Temporary Residence)

Chuffed as plums.

THANKS!

Absolute chance and Ingue records hath decreed that our new ep 'Blood Smash' will be officially(!?) released on the graphologically satisfying date of the 18 - 8 - 08. It will only be just a mere £4.

We're genuinely pleased with it and excited to find out what other people think. Here is a small explanation with a fake quiz.

1) Is Blood Smash...

a) One long song made up of 7 bits?
or
b) 7 short songs thatrunintoeachother?

The 'bit'list is this:

1. Blue Walter
2. CGI in French
3. Jody Coyote
4. Brad Gamma
5. Mia Ow
6. Frog
7. Or not to buy a Taxi

We'd like to encourage people to use the wonders of modern technology to take the tracks, put them on their computer and change their order.

2) Did we decide to write Blood Smash as:

a) an attempt at self-parody?
or
b) a)?

We hope you either enjoy the whole thing, some of the thing or at least the title.

Colin. Natalie. Aled.

answers: 1, a). 2, b).

Hello.

We're really really very chuffed to have this video for Jody Coyote.


The Jelas - Jody Coyote from Ben Reed on Vimeo.

Ben approached us with his idea about 3 months ago. The video will be one single long tracking shot through 9 themed rooms which at the end will crane up to reveal that the rooms spell 'The Jelas'. Sounds great. But too good to be true....? Nope.

With help from textile supremo Jessica Pugsley it has become the little stormer it is. I can't explain how thankful we are to Ben and Jess for doing it.

Can't wait for the next one.

Colin. Nat and Aled.