Hi folks.
Summer's here again and it seems that nothing ever changes: no British tennis player has won Wimbledon for the 500th year in a row, the slugs and snails are eating all the vegetables in my garden as usual and of course, Dropkick's invite to play the T In The Park Festival must have been lost in the post again. Oh well, never mind. At least the weather has been reasonable so far...
In better news, our new album is now finished and will be released on 12th September with a special launch gig at Sneaky Pete's in Edinburgh. There will also be some more gigs around Scotland in early September. See www.dropkickmusic.co.uk for all the dates. You can also listen to some of the new songs at www.myspace.com/dropkickmusic.

Before that though, we've got a couple of gigs coming up in the next month or so. Here's the details:

Thu 16th July @ Dundee Rep Theatre - with The Hazey Janes, Riley Briggs (Aberfeldy) and the Iain Macaulay Trio. Doors 7.30pm and tickets are £8. See poster here.
Sat 8th August @ The Market Bar, Inverness. 10pm. Free entry.

We've also got a live radio session this month on BBC Radio Scotland's Highland Cafe show. We'll be playing a few acoustic songs and providing some poor quality chat between 1.15pm and 2pm on wed 22nd July. Listeners in the north of Scotland can tune in on 92-95 FM and people elswhere in Scotland should be able to listen on 103-105 FM. The show is also repeated nationwide on sunday afternoon (I think). Check www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland for more information.

OK, that's just about enough for you all to take in. But before I go, there's just time to tell you that a group of school children fron Spain have made a music video for our song Back Door Key. It's actually quite good I think and certainly much better than our own efforts... See it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrKgLlZPCH8

Bye for now.

Alastair Dropkick