Hello good people,

Our apologies for being so quiet. But we have been cooking up something special for you – a new album, which is called 'Daddy don't Disco.' You'll have to wait just a little bit longer as we are currently in studio recording the beast. We are doing this with Theo Crous, legendary guitarist of the Nude Girls, and now also a highly respected producer who has worked with a long list of cool bands. Now we are on that list too.

Writing Daddy don't Disco has been an amazing experience; it's been very rewarding, occasionally funny, and, as anyone who writes music knows, at times goddam difficult. You'd be forgiven for thinking 'who cares just tell us what it sounds like.' But we're afraid that we just can't do that. Not yet.

What we can show you of the album writing process, you'll find in our pre-production blogs. Check out the video that examines our pre-production process, as shot by our friends at the African Attachment. Or the preproduction photographs shot by the talented Mister Ross Hillier. Or just carry on reading this insightful and well written blog to fuel your erudition. What we can tell you is that the previous album 'On a Stellar Bender' was really a collection of songs whose origination spanned at least a year and a half; the material had various authors and mirrored a changing band. To the contrary, Daddy don't Disco was written in three very intense months. Whew. 

The process kicked off with writers shock as we realized that the months of improvising (as a methodology for generating new material) had yielded no songs. We had recorded tons of audio files, which contained sonic explorations, riffs, some interesting moments and a fair whack of nice sounding, slightly useless sound garbage. What was lacking was much evidence of strong verse/chorus relationships. With Theo Crous's studio booked for April, and our first pre-production session with him as our producer planned for early March we knew that we needed to get cracking, and fast.

The outcome of us knuckling down has yielded something that sounds pretty different to what we have made before. The songs "have their own being", and have us wondering that we might have created something very unique.

Once we complete the album we will tour to the UK in late May. In June we will launch the album in South Africa and proceed to tour our country over the course of a few weeks.

All tour details will be announced through the media, facebook and myspace.

See you soon,

The Dirty Skirts