Wow, its that time again. The year has finished and its time for reflection. First off, i hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and all your wishes were granted. All of us Smilers each hade a very chilled time which was just what we needed after the hectic year we had. But now we are all refreshed and ready to go.

So 2008, what a year it was for us, we had some of the most amazing times we have shared as a band, and memories that will last forever. Lets have a run down shall we...

January was pretty quiet on the outside, but inside we were frantically getting ready to record our second album 'Years'. We played a few shows but most of the time was spent finishing off tracks and getting shit sorted!

So, in Feb we flew out to New York to record the album. To say we were excited about recording in this amazing city with a producer of such stature would be an understatment...And our hopes were completely filled when we got there. Three weeks spent living and breathing the city and the record was somthing that we could have only dreamed of when we were first starting this band all those moons ago... It was such exciting times, the start to the year ahead armed with what we thought was a great, great record. We just couldnt wait to get it out in the UK!

When we returned from the States, the next few months were spent on the build up to the release of the album, doing lots of pressy kinda things and trying to get peoples attention on Secondsmile again. As we hadnt released anything for almost two years, and the new record was quite a step away from previous work, we were excited and anxious to what people would think. The album was set for release in July so until then we spread the word, sent songs to people, waited for reviews and played some shows. We did a nice little tour with our freinds in  Colour in April, before we set out on  a tour for the album release, spread out over June and July. We played some amazing shows with the likes of Rival Schools, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly and with our friends such as Colour again, Blakfish and many others. We had two awesome album release shows in London and Bridport which made our hearts fill with joy as it seemed people were once again excited about Secondsmile.   On the 4th of July our album 'Years' was released, which had by then recived amazing reviews which we were so happy about.

The rest of the year saw us hit the road hard. We played around 100 shows in total and had some great times with some totally amazing people. We constantly toured the UK with friends Caesura, Colour, Wintermute, The Attika State as well as shows with Blakfish, Tubelord and more of our dear brothers in rock. We finished off the year by doing a 6 week tour of the UK, France and Spain which was just mind blowing. France and Spain for three weeks was a highlight of our touring career. The shows out there were just incredible and the kids just LOVE live music. We could have stayed out there for at least another three weeks to be honest but we had to come back to round the year of in December with the annual BSM Christmas tour which we were once again taking part in. We played 5 shows around the UK with some of BSM's finest and it was a great way to end the year.

Overall then it has been a pretty hectic year. We have seen so many things and i just hope people who have bought our record, sent us an email, said a nice word or come to a show have had a great time too. After all's said and done, with us runing round the world having a great time, it all boils down to you, the fans, the people that really matter. Thank you has to go out to each and every person who gives a fuck about this band. We are nothing without you and i just hope we can keep building and building untill there are enough of you to do this shit properly. We love doing this and i want to give so much more back to you guys.

Thanks so much for the support over 2008, it means the world to us.

See you next year.

x