Hi everyone,

How are you doing? Well, we hope. It's been a goshdarned awful long time since we updated you on the tricks we've been up to, but then we've been pulling together a hell of a lot of shit for you.

First of all, we played a couple of cracking gigs in the last couple of weeks - one at Imperial College London with Bilge Pump, Future Corpses & Man Aubergine, and one supporting Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid at the Rescue Rooms in Nottingham. We had great times at both, and BIG THANK YOUSE go to anyone who came to either.

Now, future gigs. In April, we will embark upon our fortnight-long European Tour (incorporating France, Belgium & Spain, as well as a special show at a friend's house near Bordeaux), following that up by supporting Thee More Shallows in Coventry and having the pleasure of once again playing with Elephant Micah in Cambridge. In May, we'll be playing all over England with a bunch of good folk - most notably a show or two with the mighty Do Make Say Think, and also joining our fantastic French friends Crevecoeur at a whole host of places. Lastly, we'll be playing the Gringo 10th Anniversary Festival on the second weekend of June, alongside such luminaries as Lords, Owen Tromans and those buggers Bilge Pump again. Check out http://www.souvaris.com/live.php for the full skinny!

The other thing we've been working on is product product product to go alongside our live actions for the next 3 months:

1: "A Hat" - the long-awaited second Souvaris long-playing CD album.
We've been promising this for 6 months now, but we will finally be receiving copies from the manufacturer by the start of April. You can now order yourself a regular copy at http://www.gringorecords.com/souvaris.htm, which will be sent out as soon as we get 'em in stock. Alternatively, we will also be doing an extremely limited edition of this album that will come packaged inside a hand-stitched hat! We're not certain on final numbers that we'll get in for this because our knitting team are still click-clacking away like crazy, but we think there'll be somewhere around 30 produced anywhere in the world, ever. They will be a few quid more expensive than the 'standard' edition CD album, but may well come with a secret gift or two to sweeten the deal... We're planning on taking the majority of these beauties on tour with us, but if you really, really need one, contact us before 4th April!

2: '"May All Your Children Be Acrobats" - Souvaris live 2003-06' Tour CDR.
We've been beavering away behind the scenes and have put together a new release on our Homoerotic imprint that stitches together 5 songs from 3 golden years of live performances. They come in a limited edition of 100, packaged with some gorgeous Helene Castro-penned-&-watercoloured artwork in a mini-DVD-style package that is as handsome as it is ergonomic. We'll initially be selling these exclusively at gigs, but if you desperately, desperately want one, get in touch and we'll hold one for you.

3: Souvaris T-shirts
Now then, we've been asked about and pleaded with for official Souvaris t-shirts for literally years now. Finally, we're pleased to announce that we now stock Souvaris t-shirts to fit your hopeless sartorial requirements. Featuring an exclusive design of a heartbroken and top-hatted cloud by Souvaris guitarist extraordinaire Dan Layton, these come in handsome royal blue or enigmatic burgundy, in a variety of sizes. You can now buy these suckers off us at gigs and they'll also be available live and direct from http://www.gringorecords.com/souvaris.htm by the end of the week. Beautiful.

Yeesh, told you we've been busy. Oh yes, and you may have noticed that we've relaunched our website in a beautiful new design, inspired by Alice Stevenson's artwork for "A Hat" and engineered by the wondrous Bertrand Manni - many thanks to both.

Lastly, we've had a little problem with our contact form on the website in that anyone who has sent us a message has not been able to send their email address. We're trying to fix the form so you can send your email address with any message in the future, but if you have sent us a message recently and not received an answer - try contacting us again with your email address included in the message!

Is that enough for you? Got any more questions or things you want to get off your chest? Then use our new forum! We're getting sick of fighting off the spammers already. Or you can use the form on our contact page. OR you can always message us via Myspace... just please don't get offended if we take a little while to answer - we're going to be away for long stretched of the next couple of months, and messages tend to get buried in the blizzard when we dare not check our inboxes for a few hours...

Hope to see you soon,

Soo.Varr.Iss.
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