Hi all,
Jp here hope you're all well and this year is going the way you all planned. As I'm sure everyone is aware nizlopi are taking a year off a sabbatical as it's called, the reason for this is varied but basically both me and Luke felt that we'd achieved all we could up to this point as Nizlopi was and as U2 so well put "we need to go away and dream it all up again" This is a time to sort our lives out, when your so busy touring, thinking it's all about you, you tend to lose all sense of who you are and why you're doing what you're doing. Music or any creative activity needs looking after and at times needs rebooting as David Gray says sometimes you should just stop, go away and get re inspired. I'd like to thank everyone who's been with us on this journey, from the first gigs to the last tour, truly without your love, support, criticism and faith in what we do, it just wouldn't have happened. I'm so grateful to all the opportunities we were given especially from the musicians, producers, tours, TV, radio, living rooms, weddings, fdm, the Concannon clan everyone who dared to come to a gig, and the many people who came to more than one, people who saw us at dormer school playing Metallica, people who came to Shepherd's bush, people who came to our last show, and people who dared like us to dream, to follow there hearts. Thank you to you all. We at Nizlopi had the pleasure to work with some of the best people, the right people, a special shout out to our touring crew, how they coped with me and Luke is nothing short of miraculous, thank you i miss you all very much.
 For me this time away is time to put the attention into the personal things that have gotten neglected and eventually rendered music for me very hard, so it's a year of pushing out away from my comfort zone, scared? Hell yes i am, it's been the toughest of year so far but i feel this has to change. What I'll do regarding music is very unclear at present, I'm practicing mainly classical music working through one classical tutor, going to see gigs have seen the Fleet Fox's, Metallica, The Toy Hearts and Imelda May in the last month already and they've all been great great gigs. Seeing friends/family and at some point I'm gonna walk across Spain but i guess the main thing is to rediscover myself and the love i had for music and the importance of friendship.
So in Jan 2010 me and Luke will get together and discuss if, when and how we wish to proceed. All that's left for me to say is have a great year, i wont get much chance to be regularly checking any of the sites but any correspondence is forwarded to me from our beautiful assistant Bradley.
May your sleep be restful.
Thank you
Jpx