Arite folkies,


This Thursday night we are supporting The Sunshine Underground at PJ's in Dunfermline. Not a lot of tickets left for this one so if you've not got tickets yet and fancy firing down then you can still get them in PJ's itself and 3rd Base, Dunfermline. There will prob be a small number of tickets on the door but you'll prob have to get your lazy arses down early doors. Should be a really good night and another good one for us.

Gig will be finished before twelve so nae excuses!!!!
 


We will also be releasing info very soon on quite a few things we've got lined up, our up and coming club night in September and a new release before crimbo, happy days!



vv

Remember when you were wee and your parents used to drag you around B&Q on a Sunday looking for paint or wiring or some crap for the garden? I used to hate that but now I've got to that age where I actually enjoy wandering round these places looking for D.I.Y. nonsense; I spent about two hours in Dobbies last week looking at fish... and I hate fish. I must be getting old.

Last night we played a brilliant gig with Beatnic Prestige and From The Jam at Velocity in Dunfermline. Big thanks to Miller for getting us on the bill. I really enjoyed it; the crowd were fantastic and gave us a warm reception which was much appreciated considering that they were there to hear Mod music which is a genre that's a bit different from our style. My highlight of the night was a glorious rendition of "Charlie Brown" by Beatnic Prestige, I've never noticed Butch's cymbal work in the chorus before but last night it sounded awesome. From The Jam were great too. They played all the hits: Going Underground, That's Entertainment, the theme tune from mock the week... Going Underground...it was special. Really good to see Paul Weller in the town too although he's looking a bit different these days.

I've recently got into a bad habit of buying stuff online when I get home from the town. Credit card + alcohol + internet = buyers remorse. Last week I came home and spent about £40 on posters and prints, the other night I bought a couple of new pickups for my guitar but last night I made the most random purchase of all... I bought a decorating kit specially designed to remove woodchip from walls! Rock and Roll I aint! Anyone else want to share their poorly judged past purchases?

Anyway, it's Sunday so I better get up to the retail park and stoat around B&Q.

Robbie

Well here I am; it's 3pm and I'm sitting in my dressing gown trying to make sense of the online appeals form for parking tickets in London (there's a song lyric in there somewhere).

That's right folks, we got stung pretty badly by a motley crew of heartless happy slappers, recklessly pasting parking tickets onto the motors of good innocent people. OK, perhaps I'm overdramatising things but it's bloody frustrating having to deal with Camden town's "finest" when all they care about is the numbers (I read the papers, I know they have to meet their targets or they get bullied).

Anyway, as I was saying, I am sitting here at 3pm waiting to play a gig in PJ's tonight with no guitar (another casualty of the trip down south I'm afraid) and I thought that I'd sit down and try to share some of the experiences we had on our maiden voyage outside of Scotland. Over the next few days or weeks or whenever I can get onto my wretched computer I aim to share some of these stories:

How did my guitar die? Why does Eddie Grant work in Camden? Which member of Val Verde cannot be awoken by blasting Primal Scream up their nose and jamming beer bottles down their pants (not at all homo-erotic)? What nearly killed the band on the way down (it was like Speed without Sandra Bullock)? And finally, why do Hungarians think that Traynor is a Bawbag?

All will be revealed in my sensationalist column right here on Myspace. In the meantime, I'm off for a shower and I really do need to try to find a guitar for das abend.

Warning you with Peace and love....

Robbie

We are playing some dates down south as the conclusion to the Lazy Soldier E.P. The venues and times are as follows-

29th Jul 2009 / Death Disco @ Notting Hill Arts Club / LONDON / 20:00

30th Jul 2009 / Hope and Anchor / LONDON / 20:00

31st Jul 2009 / Zanzibar / LIVERPOOL / 20:00

1st Aug 2009 / The Notty House / SHEFFIELD / 20:00

This will be our first run of gigs down south and we are all really looking forward to it!! If anyone is around these parts and fancies coming along to any of them, give us a shout and we'll get you for a beer.....Traynor's buying!!!!

Cheers,
VV