GUYS,

FOR ANYONE HEADING TO OUR GLASGOW SHOW WITH YASHIN TOMORROW (TECHNICALLY TODAY), PLEASE PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR THERE NICE AND EARLY, BECAUSE WEL BE OPENING THE SHOW, SO WEL BE ON IMMEDIATELY AFTER DOORS (6.30PM). GET THERE SHARP, YOU GONNA WANNA MISS OUT :-)

ALSO, AT THE GARAGE WE WILL BE SELLING TICKETS FOR OUR ABC SHOW WITH TWENTY TWENTY ON JANUARY 25TH. ITS GONNA BE THE FIRST TIME WE TRY OUT THE NEW SONGS FOR THE NEW EP, AND IF YOU BUY TICKETS TOMORROW NIGHT YOU CAN GET 4 TICKETS FOR THE PRICE OF 3. THEYRE £5.50 EACH, BRING YOUR PENNIES !!

OVER AND OUT

FRASER XXX

Good afternoon all,

How is everyone?? Enjoying the cold, wet days and loner, dark nights? Nah, me neither. Fear not, however, because in 13 days time wel be into December, and that means lots of parties, midweek drinking, and most importantly the return of tgyr! to the stage!!

As some of you already know, were off to London in March to make a new record, and so we decided to take November out to concentrate on writing more new material. Weve aleady come up with some really exciting new stuff, so keep your eyes and ears peeled in the New Year for these!!

Our attention, however, now turns to what we enjoy most and do best- live shows. We have 4 shows left this year (one which we cant announce quite yet), and the details are as follows:

- FRIDAY 4TH DECEMBER- Z1 GIRVAN
- SATURDAY 5TH DECEMBER- THE GARAGE GLASGOW W/ YASHIN
- SATURDAY 19TH DECEMBER- THE DOGHOUSE DUNDEE W/ FLOOD OF RED, THE XERTS

If you want to catch us at a gig before santa clause gets here please please message us for details on tickets. ESPECIALLY the Yashin vs Azriel show on the 5th, because we have very limited tickets left, and its going to be some night!! Weve been doing our notorious ticket drops over the last week or so, and will continue with this right up until the day of the show. Theres a wee surprise is store for this gig, so you dont wanna miss out!! All tickets also allow access to the afterparty in the Garage too, for those of you who fancy a bit of post gig dancing!!

Peace

Fraser xxx

DAY ONE - KILMARNOCK

So after arriving at my house very early (uncharacteristic of us), we end up leaving late as usual. One thing that is a very steady constant in the gap year riot is lateness. Eveywhere we go we're at least half an hour late. It sucks. But it's true! Had a few pitstops on route to Killie. First up we had to check the air in the tyres of the riot van. Now im told they were all meant to be at 55 (whatver that means) anyway, the front drivers one was at 14..Fuck me!! Had we not checked before we set off then this may have been our farewell tour!

Another 3 stops trying to find a new merch board (cause we broke the ours on the tour last month) and we're finally all set to go.

Arrived at The Cell a bit later than planned but wasn't much behind the other bands so all was good. That was until the venue changed it's door age to +18 from +14 40 mins before the show. Bad time indeed. One thing led to another and we didn't play the show. Gutting way to start off the tour but we felt it was best thing for us to do. We shall nit get into the ins and outs. Felt sorry for the boys from Energy but unfortunately these things happen.

Anyway we didn't waste our night, we headed back to mine via ASDA and got very very drunk. Good night indeed!



A good bit of Guitar hero, plenty of beer and some transferable tattoos is a great evening. Beats x factor any day.

DAY TWO - BATHGATE

Ok hangovers aside, Dave makes an audacious statement that his gran used to own a monkey and it got put in jail one night for jumping on a mans head. This is later backed up by a text, YES A TEXT, from his gran. Strange and in my opinion still untrue. We travel the short distance for our first trip to Bathgate still with fake tattoos and sore heads. That aside, the venue is Harleys and after soundcheck the gap year riot decide we love this place! The vibe is awesome and a good crowd turned out so we're happy.





NICE TAT

DAY THREE - LEEDS

So once again after a few hitches we set off a bit late but Leeds is closer than we thought. Three and a half hours driving in the wind and rain before we arrive at Rios. This is our first trip as a band to Leeds so we're all well up for the show and in particularly high spirits after visting Whetherby service station.
Being in a band and travelling a lot, we do spend a large amount of time in service stations and this place is amazing! FACT! It ranks very high in our top services. check it out if you get a chance! Hats off!

After this Neil takes a stint at driving the last half hour. He does however spend more time on the cats eyes than the proper road. All in all though a comfortable drive accompanied by a bit of Young Guns EP. We also passed the John Smeaton lesuire centre. In Leeds, very funny indeed.

The show in Rios had a few technical hitches but all in all we loved our trip and hope to be back soon.







I'll update the rest soon. Get in touch for Yashin tickets now!!!!

Franky

xxx

So it's been a while eh?

The reasons for this may be unclear to many but basically neil and fraser decided to fly off to the other side of the world (not together and not literally the other side of the world) but crete and mexico respectively. Anyhows, we're all back and raring to go for our next tour which is very very soon...

Leading me onto POINT NUMBER ONE. If you live in any of the towns or indeed near any of the towns we'll be playing in then please come and see us play and hang out. we're a friendly bunch and always love chatting to you all. If you don't know where we're playing and are too lazy to hit back then click here www.myspace.com/thegapyearriot... easy as pie. What the hell does that even mean anyway?

In the absense of said vocalist and keyboard extraordinaire, we've not been sitting with our fingers up our asses, we have been busy sorting stuff out for the rest of the year. After the October tour we'll be doing 2 more shows firstly at Z1 in Girvan (where we expect to see EVERYONE in Girvan) please don't dissapoint us.. we don't think you will: and secondly in Glasgow at the Garage with Yashin taking us to POINT NUMBER 2. If you like the rest of Scotland want to come see Yashin on 5th December at the Garage then please get in touch and we'll hook you up with tickets for the show in one of our usual ticket drop services we've become famous for providing you with. We're kinda like postmen except we hang about to talk and dogs like us. Some of us more than others. uh hum!!


We're in the process of re scheduling some shows and booking some more. We're desperate to get back to Liverpool and Newcastle asap guys so keep your eyes fixed on the page for details of when this'll be happening. Edinburgh date should be getting sorted for this year definitely also so again keep checking the page. We love edinburger and wish to return post haste. Street teams are doing well guys, anyone who hasn't added there local team yet please do so it really helps us get in touch with you about things we need to get in touch with you about. so. Yeah.

Before Neils departure abroad he compiled a lovely little 10 min edit of our tour with 20 20 last month, POINT NUMBER 3, If you haven't alreay watched this video do so now please and let us know what you think. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mni03DtKvKA

It's getting late so i'm off.

See you all soon i hope? Yes. Good stuuf!!

Onwards and upwards

Franky

xxx