We arrived home on Monday night from the best 11 days we have had since we started playing gigs in March 2007. It has been a fantastic, humbling, drunken experience for us meeting some of the finest people and bands to grace our small United Kingdom. We were very very lucky to play in some lovely places, with tremendous bands and hang out with the aforementioned finest people in the land.
We would like to thank, in no order, the following people
Tom, Nick, Kenny, Toe from TIOB for the gig, cds and kip spaces, Mesa Verde, La Solleil Brille, Glasgow Badges for the last minute orders, Gusstav for videoing, Allan Stewart for amp advice, John and the Allerjen boys for sorting us out, From the Ashes, Sam and Derek BOW for ruling and great food, Sheldon for manning the show and free cds, Battle of Wolf 359, Me and Goliath - awesome cd!, Chris Dave Steve Tom TDTY, Kara, Del, Fighting Cocks staff, Bar staff at Bacchus for a smart night out in Kingston, Paul, Lewis, Bennie, Toby, Olly St Louis, They Died Too Young for being our pals and great, Pete Scissors, Rich Scissors, Earth to Mars, Caution Horses, Motorbikes, Sausage Party (Jon RRR the stalker), Kai, Sam the nude swimmer form Brighton, the club called SNIDE, the barmaid who smuggled wine for us, Sam the nude swimmer from Brightons Mum, Edgeworld records, Matt, Zen, Alfie and Maths as a whole for being totally awesome and LOUD, Johnny + Chruches, Matt Photos, the most excellent Landlord and staff at Queen Charlotte, Colin, absolutely no thanks to the wanker who nicked our video camera and the person who designed the road network north of Norwich, The Final Sigh guys for showing as that we dont have enough gear and esp Owen for being a true legend, Leeroy (KING), Year of the Man for being collosal as fuck, Hips Unite for bringing the skramz jamz home, the Chinese Karoake pub, Cheap takeaways in Leeds, Steve Chell from Newcastle for putting up with our shite and taking us out, Robbie and The Hour of the Dead, Goddamn Minivan, that ace club in Newcastle, Slomo and Frank from Corporation for being fantastic people and being so hospitable, Heavy Heavy Low Low, The End, Mikey + Garth Flatlands for moral support + kipspace and post gig 80s tunes, Nae thanks to the Police for my £30 fine, Kaddish for being an empire, Jamie and Staff at the Balcony Bar, June Paik for being stunning and lovely people, BOW 359 again for being our favourite people ever,
A sincere thanks to each and every person who purchased one of our tshirts, cds, said something nice to us, had a drink with us, it went the distance and made five utter cunts from Scotland very happy. To those in that list who bent over backwards for us you have our utmost appreciation, you know who you are!
I am sorry i we missed anyone out, I am a tosser and have bad short term memory.
Looking forward to returning sometime soon
Maxi + Archives
xxx