Hey ya’ll!

It’s been a crazy past week or so for us and it’s pretty much all thanks to you!

Our debut album, The Brave Don’t Run, has entered the NZ charts at #2 – only beaten by Ronan Keating’s mass Mother’s Day campaign! The album’s been #1 on iTunes for over a week now and All On Our own is now topping the iTunes singles chart, so thank you so much!

To go along with that, we’ve now achieved the feat of notching two Top 20 hits in NZ – this week All On Our own is #9 (first Top 10 hit!) on the official singles chart, while The Letter re-entered the chart to hit it’s highest ever spot of #20. All On Our Own is also now the fourth most-played song on NZ radio – take that Flo Rida!!

This is just the start of a long road of promotion for what is our baby – The Brave Don’t Run – so please keep spreading the word to friends and family to go out and buy the album. It would be great to have a NZ number one album for NZ Music Month – seems such a shame to have Ronan Keating at the top of the pile right now, so lets knock him off!

First job is to go buy your mothers the album – there’s plenty of ballads and beauty in there and mothers always want to stay hip with the times!

We’re going to be announcing a whole bunch of shows across NZ VERY soon – so stay tuned, these are exciting times for us and we’d love to share them with you!

-MY-

• Number 1 video (The Letter) on both New Zealand video Networks
• "The Letter" most played local band track in New Zealand
• Number 1 on MySpace's 2008 unsigned artist chart
• Three top 40 singles in New Zealand
• Signed to Warner Music Group in '08 for NZ/Australia
• Featured Performer at Guitar Hero Asia Pacific launches

Hey all,

Time for another update for yas. We've had a busy past month or so with a bunch of cool shows. Highlights for us have been playing with Weta a few weeks back and an awesome Kings Arms show last week.

We just want to say thank you again to the Weta guys for letting us play on the same stage as them and see the re-birth of a truly great NZ band. Make sure you check them out over the coming months as they play a bunch more shows round the country.

Kings Arms last week was very cool. Thanks to all that came along and supported the bands, was probably the best turnout we've had for a gig there which gave us a good buzz.

We've started throwing a few new songs into our sets which is exciting - and weird, considering our first album isn't even out yet! We're constantly having new ideas and should have a whole heap of songs for a follow-up when that time rolls around!

VIDEO INTERVIEW

Si and I recently did an interview with Stuff.co.nz which is quite a good watch if you've got a few minutes. Thanks to Chris SCHULZ! and Clare Roach for pimping us out! You can watch the lil vid here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/videoplayer/136386a14915.html
and the accompanying story is here:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4781249a4500.html

OPSHOP/AUTOZAMM TOUR

We've been lucky enough to get on the bill for the first two shows of these guys' big summer tour. We'll be playing Browns Bay and Hamilton on the 18th and 19th of December, so come along and see three bloody good bands - well worth the effort!

CRAZY GIG 

Next week we're playing at the Demon Energy christmas party in Auckland which should be a cool night.

It's open to the public via limited tickets and it features us and Streetwise Scarlett along with a bunch of 'sword swallowers, fire breathers, small people, Demon Babes, half a dozen pole dancers and a crazy dude who intends to skewer himself on hooks through his back and be hung from the ceiling'. Indeed.

There'll also be cheap drinks all night.

You can win tickets to the party here: http://www.parksidemedia.co.nz/competitions/ http://www.demonenergy.co.nz/competitions

OR you can buy tickets here:
http://www.iticket.co.nz/eventdetails.asp?eventvenue_id=1121

FINAL NOTE - THE LETTER

Our first single from our upcoming album, The Letter, continues to amaze us with its play on radio and TV. It's still the number three Kiwi song being played on radio and 16th overall - we're beating Britney!! We've also had great support from C4 and Juice TV with the video cracking the number one spot on both over the past month. We're gonna be filming the vid for our next single soon - so stay tuned for news!

That's about me - sorry for the essay - tis exciting times for us that we hope will continue, so we'll keep you in the loop as much as we can!

-J-

p.s - the album I'm 'currently listening' to is possibly the soundtrack to my life right now - tis crazily good. Listen.

Well, after about a month of release, our single is going really well on the charts. So thank you for all your voting/requesting efforts!!

Last week we were number one on both the C4 and Juice charts! So we're super-stoked, as you can imagine. We've also cracked the Top 40 radio chart - we're currently the 37th most-played song on NZ radio and the fifth most-played Kiwi song. And this is after just three weeks in the charts!!

So please keep up the support of The Letter and let's make it a big hit! One way that will help us a lot is to buy the track on iTunes, Digirama or Vodafone's music sites or on your Telecom mobile.

SHOW NEWS

We got back on Monday night from a great few days in Christchurch for Southern Amp. Thanks to all those who came along and supported us and said hello - was a great crowd! We'll be back down south in March as part of the Summerjam tour, so hopefully we'll catch up with ya'll again then.

If you haven't heard of Summerjam - the Veronicas, Metrostation, P-Money as well as ourselves are playing four shows in March in Auckland, Wellington, Chch and Dunedin. They should be awesome shows so def come along!

Remember we're also playing Thursday the 20th of Nov at Galatos with Weta as well as the 28th of Nov at Kings Arms with our mates Streetwise Scarlett and Kingston.

Thanks again for all your support - we've been blown away by how well the single has been received.

-J -

The Happenings are happening - our single has had a great response at radio and TV so far and The Letter is getting some lovely airplay which we're really happy with considering it's only been out for a week!

Thanks to everyone for their messages of support so far - hopefully we can sneak some good NZ music into the charts with your help.

AND IN BIG NEWS - we've been asked to play South by Southwest in Texas next year in March so we're now planning a big trip through the US that revolves around the festival - very exciting!

Just wanted to let ya'll know about some awesome gigs we have coming up as well.

Firstly - we're playing Thursday 30th of October at Sale Street Bar in Auckland. This venue is brand new and seriously flash and it'll be a great night - be there 9pm sharp for the start of our set!

Next we play Southern Amp'd in Christchurch, our first festival gig. Will be an cool day and we've got a sweet set lined up for it, so if you;re around, come check it!

AND FINALLY - a gig we're super-excited about is at Galatos on November 20 - we're playing with one of NZ's greatest ever rock bands, Weta, at their reunion show. These guys made what is most-likely the best NZ rock album ever in 2000, Geographica, and are legends in our minds! Check out some of their music here: http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/diner/4771/index.html

Hope you all are enjoying the start of a new season, hopefully it's a successful one for us all!

-J-

Ok - so after our long hibernation from releasing actual music to the world....we're finally going to emerge from our cave - slightly older, slightly wiser and, hopefully, much better! So we're pretty excited to have something to show off for ya'll!

In early October, 'The Letter', will be released to all your fav radio and video broadcasting stations. Yeeeow!

We're also playing what is our first electric show in a fair while this coming Friday night at a great new venue in Henderson called ZEAL with ElemenoP. So if you'd like a taste and early preview of what our album will sound like - get there and get looouuud. (further details in our gig guide thing)

So - brace yourself, we're back in action.

Hope you're all awesome.

-MY-