Kids in Glass Houses, plus special guests Young Guns.....

Kerrang! Radio presenters open up the doors to their annual Christmas party to listeners whilst rocking the city!....

Listeners will get to hang out with DJs Kate Lawler, Simon James and Hill, Johnny Doom, Loz Guest, Henry Evans and Luke Wilkins in person at their Christmas party on December 10th 2009 at the 02 Academy in Birmingham. ....

The live music event – featuring Kids in Glass Houses and Young Guns - includes a DJ set by the Kerrang! presenters, who’ll be entertaining listeners into the night with some of the best rock music from the past 40 years. ....

A spokesperson for Kerrang! Radio said:....

“We pride ourselves at Kerrang! Radio in having Birmingham based radio presenters who are totally free from egos. They’re a music loving, friendly and relatable bunch who have a great relationship with their listeners. This event at the 02 Academy is all part of developing that relationship further, whilst showcasing some of the best new music out there! Kids in Glass Houses and Young Guns are perfect examples of how exciting rock music is right now.”....

Tickets for the Kerrang! Live Christmas Party cost £10 and are available from http://www.kerrangradio.co.uk

sitting in the dressing room in middlesbrough. writing a blog that's 2 days late. maybe 3. i'm on a tour calendar so time has no place or context in my life anymore. it could be monday. it could not be. i'm trying to piece together the fucked up jigsaw that has been the weekend. ....

we met attack attack and our mobile home at midnight on thursday and quickly got to work reacquainting ourselves properly over a bottle of vodka and iain's unifying djing skills. probably not the wisest move considering the early start we had friday for the kerrang acoustic show. we winged that one semi-succesfully, screwing up a mere 4 out of 5 songs. butchering hot n cold by katy perry aswell as some choice victims from our glistening back catalogue. luckily, our costumes and the most moist halloween cake ever took the edge off and distracted the assembled throng. it was a damn good time, so thanks to loz at kerrang for the brilliant cup of tea (really was) and a lovely spread and to all for their high spirits.

we sauntered over to the o2 academy in birmingham where we were greeted by the cherubs in funeral for a friend and fightstar and young guns. started off brilliantly as a musical evening and ended quite fuzzily as a race to half-death. it was quite a nice way to start tour, really. we drank some drinks and chewed some fat with old and new friends. tore through the venue and the bus in a cape and one devil horn (oh, just me? uh yaaah,ok). the show itself was notable by its vibe, so thanks to everyone in the crowd for reminding us what it's like to play an awesome show and have a good time with other humans. you danced and sang and bounced and it made us feel all warm and gooey inside like a greggs festive slice. apologies to whoever was throwing glowsticks at the stage. it's not my fault i have the agility and reflexes of a futurecat. good times.

saturday was coventry. we've never been there before and OH, what an experience it was. the venue was decked out (no expense spared) for halloween. the show was probably the hottest, wettest experience of my life. this, combined with a lack of electrical plugpoints near the stage made for a bit of tumultuous experience with wiring. by this, i mean that i got electrocuted halfway through the set and heard my teeth rattling in my head. not good. i should thank everyone who made the effort to dress up. we neglected our duty to do so due to poor time management and a general lack of coordination or organisation. i did plan to go as andrew wk, but i couldn't find a suitable wig. sorry. you all looked lovely. the party that followed was a bit of a wild one so i decided - quite uncharacteristically, might i add - to retire to the bus to enjoy a nice asparagus and mushroom pizza and a few movies. get me!.

day off in coventry followed. oddly hangoverless. didn't feel quite right. a bit unnerving. like i'd been abducted and sent back to earth. i ventured into the city regardless, to investigate. i was quite charmed by a nice little tudor area with all dem crooked buildings and tingz. that was nice. bought nothing and went to see fantastic mr fox, which rocked my fucking face clean off my skull. amazing. the boys went for curry and i thought better of it. we're on tour. there are strict rules in a certain closet of our bus which revolve around the numbers 1 and 2. one of which is acceptable and the other, not so.

today i find myself in middlesbrough. i dropped an astonishing £4.51 in wilkinsons. that actually excited me. i'm so bored that soundcheck is actually about as exciting to me right now as the smiths reforming and playing their greatest in the corner of my bedroom while megan fox pours liquid gold into diamond encrused goblets and bays at the moon.

i don't know who's gone out of x factor, but please god let it be the welsh boy who's setting our nation back centuries with his neanderthal post-song rambling. stop calling cheryl cole 'babe' on national tv. stop saying tidy. stop existing. stop singing. go away. i know where you live. you're not fireproof.

neil from attack attack is my gambling hero. he just keeps winning. it's like he got the almanac from back to the future 2 and brought it on home. i'm jealous.

i can feel the linear form of this blog crumbling in front of me. we attempted a bit of a horror movie marathon to celebrate all hallow's eve. we watched lindsay lohan teeter on the brink of nudity in 'i know who killed me'. anyone seen it? probably the most quotable film i've seen, well, ever. i recommend anyone who hasn't seen it, buys it from hmv at once. £3 pound that keeps on repaying you until your emotionally satisfied beyond your wildest dreams.

i'm out.

x

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ah, the sweet, sweet sound of disgruntled friends

i'm in the van on the way home from a gruelling few days of pampering and cameras in shepperton and shoreditch. i've looked like a slapper with a gcse in facial hair for the last 2 days and now i'm going back to wales to scrub the tangerine from my skin and to sleep for 7 days and 7 nights. god created the world in 6 days and then rested, apparently. we created a video in 1 day and rested for 6. what a sucker

anyway, i just called to say we're doing a new tour, which is pretty damn exciting for us. these are out first headline dates in longer than i care to remember. probably a year. there's a tour poster in our images section, which also shows the sexy artwork for our new single. the point of this tour wasn't to cover all of the towns we've done in the past, or big cities that we've covered this year on the few shows we've done with fall out boy or new found glory, but to hit up some of the lesser ventured corners of our fair isles. we're lucky enough to be joined on these dates by our homeboys in attack! attack! who we're stoked to finally get to do a long overdue tour with.
 

it should be pretty spectacular. we'll be dropping a few cheeky sneak previews of the new material and bashing out some of the old standards. my way, new york new york, come fly with me... et-swinging-cetera

now now. i know a lot of you are, well, pretty pissed at us. there is no london or manchester date this time around, you are correct. but see it from coventry's point of view. there's NEVER a coventry date on any of our tours. i know being in london, you expect bands to stop by, and that's always been the case with us and will be the case on the next tour. but, for a change, we wanted to visit towns that get overlooked a lot and that don't figure into most bands usual tour routings. variety is the spice of life (cringey cliche count: 1)

it's flattering that you care enough to be upset that you can't see us, and i understand that for some of you travelling to your nearest show is out of the question, but you can't please all the people all the time (cringey cliche count: 2) and an apology will have to do.

this isn't the last tour we'll ever do. in fact, it's the beginning of a lot of touring to come. we've had a quiet year because we've been on holiday in the algarve with our mosh wags (cringey cliche count: 3). then, we took an interval from sunning ourselves and recorded our record - a record we're really proud of and a record that took its sweet time. we'll be touring it early next year and we'll be in london. we'll be in manchester and yourtown. don't take it personally. we want to play to everyone, in every town, in every country (cringey cliche count: 4)... but all in good time.

for the meantime, we've just finished the video for a new single called 'youngblood (let it out)'. we're super excited for you to see and hear it. it will be available very soon (more specific details soon). let's try to stay friends until then, ok? we've missed you all terribly and we want to love not fight. or we can fight if you want and in march we can have makeup sex up and down the country.

this page is getting overhauled this week. out with the old, in with the nudes (wonderfully witty wordplay count: 1).

lots of love

aled xxx