Hi all

Am trying a new way of doing my blog, am writing it straight on to the myspace, normaly i send it to finn or bradley to make sure i havn't spelt my name wrong or anything, so i apologise for the obvious spelling mistakes and lack of corect grammer

So whats been happening, well me and luke have been in the studio, the first time since make it happen was recorded, we recorded two new songs, looking for answers and sandra which will be available on at the shows along with some class remixs from our friends which span house music, hip hop and bangra, as ever always trying something different. We have also been colaborating with tori who has done some fantastic artwork for the cd.a piece called understanding love. The songs reflect differnt aspects of nizlopi "answers" is more folky no beatbox were as "sandra" a more poppy hip hop beat box all over it track can't wait for people to hear these new tracks the first for some time. Today we've been working with al on our in ear monitoring system which is sounding great, my double bass actually sounds like a double bass and i can hear all my notes, sadly even the out of tune ones, we're playing wales tomorrow and this will be the first gig trying them out, it means we can hear ourselves clearly and we don't have to have our speakers on stage really loud, also means that i will no longer go through my victor meldrew mood on stage ie unplugging the monitor and generally moaning for hours at katie our long suffering tour manager. Apart from that nizlopi have finally finished our podcast which should be uploaded by the end of this week, this was hard to make but i think catches both the sadness we feel at the mo and also the friendship and lightness between me and luke even going through this difficult period of change. The podcast trys to explain what is going to happen in the future for nizlopi, i'd like to thank dave motion for some skillful editing and kieron for some good questions and a good pep talk before we filmed. Also in the podcast is the first glimps of looking for answers which i mentioned earlier.

I have been playing with different people have a gig supporting the sugar babes with Liam bailey which should be a real laugh also been playing with tom mckean which is sounding good looks like we're off to the states to record the album out there which exciting.

also been buying lots of books from abebooks.co.uk it's wicked much better than amazon bought the rest of the a m homes books.

Albums i've been listening to contreversally is the new metallica album, i love it, has been a while i've listened to something so angry but it reminds me of there early albums and my teenage years, well done them for producing a great record.

Right thats me for now i'm going to slay some bullies, little bsrds, sorry.

All the best jpxx