Hey hey hey
 
Belated Happy New Year tidings and good vibings to everyone. We hope 2009 is good to you and yours and us and ours.

It looks set to be a busy year for us, not least because of the looming spectre of dissertations and finals. Curses!

But good things are also keeping us busy: our eponymous debut album will be launched soon! Hurrah!
 
We've had to push the release back a wee teensy bit to June due to a kerfuffle involved mastering.
 
Anyway yes, There Will Be Fireworks has 13 songs, called:
 
Colombian Fireworks; So the Story Goes; Midfield Maestro; Guising; Off With Their Heads; I Like the Lights; A Kind of Furnace (which you may know as the Piano Song); We Sleep Through the Bombs; Headlights; We Were a Roman Candle; Says Aye; Foreign Thoughts; and Joined Up Writing.
 
Again, mmaasssssiivvee thanks to everyone of our friends who contributed: Marshall, Karen, Kevin, drawler, Doobles, Vincenzo, Stevie and Edward R. Murrow. We love you all like Flake cakes.

It took pretty much a year to record - partly due to work and university commitments and partly due to our pernickity obsessiveness. Or obssesive pernickitiness. Or something.
 
Anyhoo, we're now content to let it just be whatever the hell it is and release it on our imaginary label that we invented in our heads.
 
Until then, we are STILL giving away FREE songs. We've had a ridiculously good response to this enterprise, so if ye huvnae already email us at
 
therewillbefireworks@hotmail.co.uk
 
and we'll send you Talking Backwards and White Noise on the TV. For zilch. Zip. Nada. Don't say we ain't good to you.
 
Also, our video for Midfield Maestro is going on Rapal next week (I think) and we're going to be on Tom Robinson's 6music show at some indeterminate point in the not-too-distant future. I should probably pay my licence fee.
 
Until then, you should all come to see us at the Captain's Rest next week with Glissando and the French Quarter. We'll have Vinny and Karen with us and we'll all go out after and you can buy us a pint and a sandwich.

Merci beaucoup,
 
Nicky
twbf.
xox

Hello,

In anticipation of our impending album, we are giving away FREE tracks.

So, if you want to get your grubby wee mits on them, email us at

therewillbefireworks@hotmail.co.uk

and we will send mp3s of Talking Backwards and White Noise on the TV. Saves you ripping them, and sounds better!

Yay!

fireworks

xx

...to everyone who came down to King Tuts last night - we appreciate it lots and lots. It was a great night and we had a really good time. The Phantom Band and iLiKETRAiNS were brilliant, so was a great night all round.

And special love goes to Karen for being amazing as always. A mixture of love and disappointment rages in our collective heart at the loss of Vinny, who couldn't make it to the gig to wow us with his unique and delightful imput on the guitar and glockenspiel. No worries, next time.

So yeah, just a big thanks to everyone - was great to see so many of you there.

We're off to see the wizard, at the magical Mill on saturday, to finish the album mix. Aww yeeah.

love,

the fireworks

xxxx