Dear men and women,


There's a couple of things on my mind. There's a couple of things at my fingertips. The moon is appearing slightly earlier than it did before and so we're cheering ourselves up with songwriting, new ventures and new shows.

Last thing first: we have two shows confirmed for upcoming months; firstly a set at the Rockomotives Festival in Vendome, France. This will be a lot of fun. Why? are playing, and are one of our favourite bands currently. Suzanne Vega, I'm From Barcelona and Camille will also be gracing that same stage, which is very exciting.

We have also just confirmed our first ever trip to Greece! We play at Kyttaro in Athens on the 18th of January! See you there!


We have also started arrangments for a European tour for our beloved Rivulets, the most recent signing to O Rosa Records. We will have details of these shows soon. Sylvain Chauveau, also from O Rosa, will be playing at London's gorgeous Union Chapel on the 2nd of November alongside Greg Haines and Peter Broderick. We urge you to come along. Details and tickets here.

If you visit the O Rosa webstore any time soon, be sure to check out the new addition of the Pieces of String Too Small to Use zine. I wrote a short story for it called Vaya Con Dios.

On the subject of the webstore, we'd like to ask people's opinions on two possible new merch items we've been considering: hoodies and Converse trainers. We like the idea of stocking these with yndi designs. If anyone would be interested, do get in touch.


Lastly, we're thinking of redesigning our website. We have an idea in mind but not enough programming skills to execute it - is anyone able to help with that? I guess this would be a flash project, but I'm not sure.


Thank you, everyone, see you in France and Greece soon with new songs.

James Jonathan Vella
(+ best wishes from the rest)

p.s. the new A Lily record will be for solo piano and will be entitled Joy