Greetings Ladies & Gents,

We hope this blog finds you well and that you are all protecting yourself against this lovely lovely sun!! Get ya factor 50 out!

So first of all abit of bad news. Our bass player, Mr Naoto Hori, has fucked his back! The poor boy, after months of doing removal work, is now on crutches and is finding it increasingly difficult to walk. So he got himself off to see doctors and the like at our wonderful NHS and they put him on a massive waiting list to have an operation. That said the wait was gonna be way too long so he is now over in Japan having it done as we speak. He will be out of action for a month or so but at least he will be fixed and ready to rock on his return.....and in very little time too! So we send our love to him for a speedy and happy recovery! We will keep you posted on how he is getting on and may even include some photos if ya lucky!!!

So what have the rest of us been doing while this is all going on i hear you ask...well we have been busy bees continuing to write our 3rd album and i can tell you right here, right now people.....its gonna be a belter! We have had a frustrating time over the last year, what with Wills voice and that, so we have channeled our frustrations into this brand new batch of tunes. I am very proud of us coming through these dark days and i think you will  find that this new album is gonna be our best yet! We want to thank each and everyone of you for your patience, understanding and loyalty to this band. It means soooo much! We have completed 9 tracks thus far. Bear in mind that some of these are working titles which we have no intention of keeping:

1. Tiny Pieces
2. Eden
3. There At Last
4. Adieu
5. Coat in Bruise
6. 200 Scratches
7. It's a mess if it ain't it'll do till a mess gets here
8. SOHK
9. New Year

We are looking to demo the whole lot, and more, very soon with the view of recording the beast properly towards the end of the year. More news on that as we have it! Also as soon as we have something to play you we shall bung some snippets on the myspace player for your listening pleasure. MMMmmmm!

Lastly, we have been able to get our mits on some old stock from our first record "Lights". These bits include the album itself and all the singles (7" records and cds).
Andrew has started selling them on ebay so if you are missing some of these items from your Brigade collection then please have a look.

Right so thats my rant over. I just wanted you all to know that we are not dead and are still very much alive and kicking and cant wait to start with a new record, a new singer's voice and a new bass player's back!

Once again thank you for your patience and big love to you all.

JamesX