Hey peeps, As you may well be aware due to circumstances out of our control the Glasgow show at Capitol as part of the Eighth Wave tour has been cancelled. I think Eighth wave are rearranging a glasow show for december but as of yet we have not been invited to join them on this show!

However, due to the fact we had accomodation booked in Glasgow on the 25th Oct, we decided to try our best at late notice to get some sort of show! as we would rather be playing in glasgow than not playing at all!

We have managed to get a small show sorted @ The upstairs bar area of Maggie Mays for the 25th October - however this is 18+ the line up is

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first band starts at around 8.00pm! it is a small show but we still hope u can come down and have a drink with us and come out with us after! and for all of our under 18 glasgow fans we will be back in november for an all ages show!!

please  let us know if you are coming along to this show.

Thanks

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Our new Single "Answers" will be released on the 27th July!!!

There is now a snippet up on our page so you can listen to the song, let us know what you think!!

YOU CAN BUY THE SINGLE NOW ON PRESALE FROM

www.indiestore.com/page44official

this is also the only place you can listen to all 3 version!! So please go there and buy all 3 versions for the bargain price of £2.31

- The single is download only there will be NO  physical release as we cannot afford it!

- The single will be available from itunes, hmv.com, 7digital, indiestore and other download sites and also from a text code over the next few weeks we will keep you informed!!

so for now, please head over to indiestore and buy it! we are aiming for the top 100 singles chart so we need around 3000 sales!!

that means 1000 people buying all 3 so we really need you help, spread the word as best u can and bulletin the details around!!!

Hey guys n gals,

Just to let you know we have been selected as one of the 72 finalists out of over 3500 bands to play a Britbus tour showcase gig!!

Basically it means, that if we play well and representatives from Britbus and the Music Industry like us that we have the chance to be taken on tour to America, Japan, Australia or India in a double decker London bus!!

As you can imagine this would be a massive opportunity for us, so we are rather excited but we need your help!! We need you to come down and support us at our showcase show!

The showcase is on Monday 18th May @ 02 Academy 2 There will be 5 Amazing Midlands Bands on

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The Musgraves
The Amateurs
Sick City Club
Isolated Atoms

its £5 a ticket from us and is an all ages show, we really want a good turn out, so get your page 44 t shirts on, bring ur banners and signs and come along!!

GET YOUR TICKETS FROM US NOW!!! GET IN TOUCH IF YOU WANT SOME

 
can you please do us a favour and go here www.roadtov.com and register, then search for the page 44 page on their and become a fan, and give us a nice comment, it helps us get the chance to play V Festival!! x
WE NEED AS MANY FANS ON THERE AS POSSIBLE AND AS MANY PLAYS SO GET EVERYONE YOU CAN TO DO IT!
Its really important to us! so please let us know and perserve with it as the site is notoriously bad, there is a widget you can get off our page on there that you can put on your myspace too so please do!
-- Also news on the single launch will be coming very soon --

Hey guys and girls we are looking for a new bassist!!

The Lovely Mr Sam Wilson is planning on going to University in september in Leeds making it very difficult for him to continue in Page 44 after that time. As we feel it may take longer than 9 months to complete world domination with Page 44 and are all still enjoying writing and playing we have all sat down to talk and decided that its best we look for a new bassist to replace sam. We are in no immediate rush, but we thought it best to start looking now, to make it easier for us and sam.
Sam will remain with us until we have found a new bassist and will help us find and train up his replacement. Sam is very much still apart of this band and has recorded our new single with us as will be performing all the shows we have listed upto when we have a replacement sorted.


We are not splitting up, and will not be cancelling any shows!! basically its still all systems go but we do need a new bassist so if you fancy the position you need to be:

- over 18
- be from the Birmingham (midlands) area
- have your own equiptment (bass guitar and amp worthy of the gigs we do)
- have some reasonable gigging experience
- be able to practice twice a week
-be able to gig whenever we have shows
- be able to pay there way
- be committed, we want to do this as a career
- love our music!
- have no other bands on the go
- preferably can do a lil bit of backing vocals

if you fit the bill, then get in touch so we can sort out an audition!! or if you know anyone else that suits the bill then get them to get in

Hey everyone, just wanted to actually tell people how it all happened since they decided to play all of about 2 seconds and hardly any of the judging!! And try to make out we were 4th on when we were the second band of the second session so 9th band out of 14 to play! No suprise really due to the response we got and didnt get through that they had to heavily cut and edit us out of the show to not make them look silly!!

So here it is!  
 
We arrived there at 9.30am in Leeds (when we were told to get there) only to be told after an hour later that we shouldve been told we were in the second session of the day and didn't need to be there till 4.00pm so we had a lot of waiting around to do. So we watched the first session of 7 bands audition. The first band on got a lot of negative feedback the judges said the first half of their song was terrible, they didnt like the image, didnt like the female singer and said the song had no chorus and wasn't memorable, the only positive thing i can remember was they liked the girls tutu's but they got through!! Needless to say this appauling judging carried on and 5 of the first 7 acts went through, all of them getting mixed reviews from the judges! 2 of them were really good! but the other 3 not so much!
 
We were a little concerned with 5 acts going through from the first session as only 16 bands were meant to go through to the next stage an average of 4 bands per audition day! So we brought it up with the production staff, we said we might as well go home now there is no point being there as they will put hardly any bands through from the second session of the audition, after sitting down and discussing it with the director and about 6 members of the production staff they said, that they could let as many as they want through and assured us we still had a fair chance!! So we waited our turn, we were second in the second session after a hip hop artist that didnt go through!
 
We played our song pretty well, lil bit of nerves but nothing major, the crowd went mental, to the point where lauren lauverne had to tell them to shut up so they could judge us!
 
So then onto the judgment, Grant the singer from Feeder started off, saying we were brilliant, the first band he has liked all day, more his thing. He gave us some constructive criticism about maybe changing the dynamic about for each song on stage and that we needed to watch our vocal range, as it was on our higher limits and that it might cause problems when touring but practically all positive! Then Simon Gavin said we were more Kerrang than NME and that it was a good thing , he liked it. Lauren Lauverne said we were a bit too Kings Of Leon in the respect of being anthemic and having an Epic song for her liking, but we were good and very commercial. Then Alex James came on and said we were the most proficient band of the competition, and that our onstage presence and enjoyment was second to none and that it cannot be taught or learnt and that bands go for years trying to find that sort of presence.Then they also said that our bassist was the best they had seen and that he was incredible!! so onto the verdicts. Grant from feeder said a definite yes, simon gavin then went hmm im 50/50 im not sure he said he doesn't know about the song (a song he 3 mins earlier said he liked) once he had said that alex james demeanour changed he then said he preferred stannys voice to mine and went on about us asking wether we deserved a million pounds from him, and said he isnt sure so no. Next Lauren Laverne she said on the crowd response alone it had to be a yes. Then Alex James ummed n arred for as long as he could, tryed to make us argue the point, to the stage where we told stanny to stop responding as we werent guna be like some of the bands that went through and beg! so then he said, look you're a good band and there is a million and one ways of getting signed this isn't it though! So we had 2 yes and 2 no votes so we didnt go through. The crowd booed the judges like mad, some even being removed after shouting abuse at alex james, Grant was even seen arguin  with Simon Gavin about not putting us through. Even Reuben the Stage manager said we should have got through.

 
Next we got whisked straight off stage into a room to be interviewed by alex zane, obviously because this is where people say stupid things, we  said how disapointed we were and that it didnt make sense etc and then left, next thing i know i'm at the bar and alex zane and about 4 cameras and crew come flying up as they sensed a bit of a story and thought they would try and make some good tele, so they ask us which of the judges we were disapointed with we say Alex James after his massive U turn, so they bring him out and in front of the camera talking to me and stanny we ask him, why we had more positive comments than all the previous acts put together but didn't get through he says look you are a great band easily the best band from your area but there is loads of areas like that in the UK. He then says, to be honest if you were in it last year you wouldve won it and if you wanted to be the biggest band in the world, with your bentleys and your guitar shape swimming pool you could be for all the good it would do you. We then asked in that case why he said no and he then went on to say "Look we put 5 bands through this morning when we were sposed to put a maximum of 3 through. If you were in the morning session you wouldve got through" the second he said that the director dragged him off and the whole production staff all inhaled deeply! like oh my god did he just admit that!
 
Was ridiculous, so much so that after we saw the judges outside and Simon Gavin was chatting to us going, i liked it i'l be checking your myspace to hear your other songs!

So yeah they covered there backs by showing hardly any of it! anyways we are now damn glad to be out of the competition, especially after speaking to last years winners and seeing how they have done nothing since! There was plenty of people there that saw this!! so yeah fuck em all!! and onto bigger and better things wooooo!

So then the day of our Biggest ever Headline show had dawned!!! What an eventful day it was!!

I began the day waking up in the spare room at Stannys house; having slept reasonably well considering the nerves had kicked in about the show being a success and a rather strange dream about us supporting rihanna!! But as per usual whenever we have an important gig or a recording session we all wake up with a full on cold, sore throat, congestion and sniffing more than Robert Downey Junior on a date with the devils dandruff!!!

So after getting the 3S's out of the way (shit, shower and shave) not necessarily in that order, me n Stan set off to town to stock up on cold remedies!! On the way we bumped into our hairdresser friend Mr Paul Farr and he kindly remarked on how we both looked like utter shite!! We then picked up Sammy Sausage, who looked equally as bad as me n Stan, next on the way was roadie Al. He was immensely excited, even more so than the lil kiddies at Xmas!! And it perked us all up on the way to pick up our lovely new backdrop!!!

Wooooo , a trip down some dodgy lil country lanes and we then found the printing place, after a quick phone call to Mr Penny our friend who printed it and technically paid for it as we haven't actually got round to paying him for it whoooooops (Ta Phil) Anyway after mild abuse being called a bunch of Emo's by a guy that looked like the retarded love child of The Predator and Skeletor and was squintier than Stanny in he middle of a Pollen storm (some of this was due to the fact that he was off his tits on the smell of the solvents in the printing place, a factor that later on also contributed to Marky Mark dancing like a crazy mo-fo on his own to some Techno in a deserted Academy 2 at ramshackle) we then got on our way with a massive parcel!!

Arriving at Academy 2 to see our name up in lights, well red plastic letters but it had the same effect to us, all giggling like little girls!! It finally dawned on us, that this show could be pretty massive!! After getting in to Academy 2, we were greeted by the FV Live guys who seemed more excited than us!! And we were bombarded by ice cold cans of Dr Pepper!! We then got all the equiptment in and got Al to do his first of the Roadie duties put up our banner!! After a few bits of jigging, extra bits of string and the ever resourceful gaffa tape it was up!! And yes we posed in front of it, with a fair bit of pride! We then wanted to go see our dressing room so we did, to be honest it was smaller than I thought it would be, but again you start to feel important when u think of who has sat in their before, something we were reminded of, by looking at the remnants of some Smoothie Alphabeat had left behind in the smoothie maker!! Whatever was in there and we couldn't work it out it looked disgusting!!

After that we sound checked which was pretty uneventful we played some songs and the sound guys did a good job getting us to sound ace then we all mosied into town, Stan wanted to get a new T shirt so we trotted off to Selfridges all marching behind him looking like his entourage!! After what seemed like hours of stanny posing in front of a mirror (one of his favourite past-times) Myself, Mark and Sam decided we couldn't hack the pressure of choosing which of the T shirts made stanny look most buff!! So we skipped of to do one of my favourite pastimes, stuff my face full of food!! After wandering through boots and our conversation interrupted by some lass shouting "I've found it" at the top of her lungs, like she had just hit gold when she was standing near the Vagisil creams, oh dear!!! We decided Tesco express was the place to be for food!! This enabled us to wander past the academy and there was now a small queue so we felt ace, this was until we realised how drunk some of the lasses in the queue were!!! (They didn't get let in, in the end!!)

Anyways this is some colossal blog now, so il cut to the chase, we all met bk up in the dressing room and munched on our own food and the lovely nibbles that had been provided by one of the FV lives guys mums, I think it was toms mum so thanks mummy Clayson. Then we had one of those slightly gay moments when we all straightened our hair and got Sam to style it and tell us how beautiful we look!! By this time The Magic Mushrooms had started playing, but we weren't ready so unfortunately we missed them sorry guys!! But the crowd had started to get bigger and we were getting more nervous!! This wasn't helped by fast quantities of rockstar and relentless energy drinks! The other 2 bands played amazingly and got the crowd warmed up and then it was our turn!!

We came out to our little intro from reservoir dogs and were quite surprised at the crowd there was loads of you!!!! So we ripped into "To Make You Proud" and the rest from there becomes a bit of a blur!! The crowd were amazing going mental to every song, and so many of you singing along, there were banners and we all got bracelets thrown to us!!! Or in my case right at me!!! We even through in a bit of a party cover which couldn't have gone down better, watching everyone bounce about to La Bamba and fighting over our sombreros!!! It was amazing!! The best feeling ever! And easily the best gig we have ever played! So a massive thanks to you all!!

After the gig it continued to be amazing, we spent about an hour signing things and getting photo's taken with you lovely lovely people!! Then after packing the van up we cracked open the champers and drank it like true rockstars (straight from the bottle) and finished up the beers too!! And then we went to ramshackle and danced the night away!! And murdered many a brain cell!!

But it was amazing so thanks very much!!! Pics from the gig are up in our pics pages or you can go here!!

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=6763597&albumId=2002372

Hey y’all i’m back again for the last instalment of our recording blog. I’m sat back in my comfy computer chair in Redditch and reminiscing over the last 6 days and trying to remember the funny sections of ydays session!

We woke up! All rather mouldy n furry mouthed from the night befores  binge drinking session!We went to a cool littlish place called the Cookie Club, was a mini sausage fest when we arrived, the four of us almost doubling the amount of people already in there, there was 3 other guys and 2 lasses, that looked like guys from certain directions! So none of us really having enough money to go anywhere else thought sod it, found a booth to sit in and started on our £1.50 bottles of kronenberg!  This then turned into £1 shots of corkys, i can’t for the life of me remember what flavours we had, partly because none of them tasted anything like what they were sposed to, but they were a pound so we flew through quite a few of the lil buggers! Next thing we know we come back from the loo and its pretty rammed! So we all had a bit of a dance, staying clear of a lass with freakishly big feet and a bit of a gimp that looked like a fatter version of the ugly one in the Enemy!

Once again we only managed to have around 3 hours sleep each as for some reason we were watching ice hockey till almost 5 in the morning and finishing off any beers left around the room! We quickly got all our shizzle together and left the Travelodge room for the last time, leaving a mass of empty cans piled near the bin; random splodges of split beer across the floor and a fine brown mist of biogas clinging onto the curtains!

We marched over to the studio, with all our luggage and hoiked it up the stairs once more strengthing my thighs to the point where i’d make Arnold Schwarz-watevers legs look like twiglets!! And then decided to bound back down the stairs to get some breaky, the hockley cafe being the place of choice ( sausage and mushroom bap with ketchup only £1.90, BARGAIN!!) we also saw one of the fattest people in the world in there it seems like his body was trying to swallow his tiny head and to make it worse he was ginger!! Unluuuuuuuuuuucky!!

Anyways recording wise, i finished the vocals for the new new song after having a nightmare effort at them the day before. Lets just say if i was doing the X factor my efforts at singing the particular section yday would’ve made the dvd extras section and the channel 4 top 10 of worst auditions ever programme not to mention i wouldve been torn a new one by simon cowell, however he wasn’t there so i just got giggled at by the others!  I did however find the reason and rectify it! The dirty purple fairy lights in the pimp cave vocal booth weren’t turned on in Wednesdays session! So after turning them on i breezed through it wooooo!!

Then came the most exciting part of recording for us, mixing!!! For anyone not familiar with mixing we get to do nothing we sit and watch producer mark fiddle with knobs ( not those ones u dirty buggers) and make us sound amazing and we sit there quietly! Its about as much fun as sitting through a Robbie Williams concert!! Not very!!

We decided to leave producer mark to it and have a little look round Nottingham, basically meant us going to wetherspoons and getting lunch so i could stuff my hamster cheeks with their burger and a drink deal!!

By the time we got bk to the studio, kylie ( housemate/ band mate of producer mark) came to take some photos of us, for her personal collection (ta very much)!! And because she wanted to fiddle with a new camera and we are just too beautiful not to take photos of! So we have some cool new shots of us inbetween kylie laughing a lot, because the strange accents we had been doing all week, had seemed to stick! We will put them up when we put the mastered versions of the songs up!  Then it was packing up time! Booooo this took an age with them bloody stairs again!

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So yeah recording over and we are waiting for 2 of the tracks to be mixed and then all of them to be mastered and we will whack them up! Won’t be till around April 10^th – 11^th but they’re well worth the wait! 

So a massive thanks to producer Mark for making us sound amazing and putting up with our constant accents, quotes and farting!! We highly recommend everyone to go and record there because apart from the stairs its awesome!!

So go here n check it out www.thecrashfactory.com

 

So thats it Adventure over!  Think we might blog a bit more regularly though as peeps seemed to enjoy it!!

Love and kisses

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P.S fun things from the last day!!

- Stanny trapping his todger in his shorts zip!!

- Marky markton was the only person not to be farted in the face!

- Producer marks strange taste in food, having a cheese and marmite toastie from the hockley cafe

- I actually broke some fairy light bulbs when we were taking photos, as i sat on them with the sofa and they shattered under the tremendous weight!

-  Kylies hair straighteners are better than mine! 

- Sam could easily have a career as a hair stylist

- 4 grown men standing on a marshall guitar cab, is as silly and dangerous as it sounds!

- sam is the best air drummer in the civilised world! Fact!