Ok this isn't a blog about sports, but is anyone really searching via catagory? Myspace is surely mostly used by bands and people who have some inexplicable thing against facebook right? No offence to Tom, who I'm sure won't take offence.

Tonight we played a show for the lovely Alex MacHorton of the mighty Glasswerk Promotions here in little old London town. At the Borderline, where our soundman and my brother in law Brien saw Tim Rogers from You Am I play a solo set last year.

It was a 14+ show.

I'm not going to pretend that I know what anyone other than me likes to listen to. In fact, half the time I'm not sure what I like to listen to, other than the stuff in my folks record collection and the few bands that changed my life massively over the years (essentially The Beatles from my folks and then Rancid, Sublime and The Strokes for me. Random I know).

But tonight a few things happened. We can book Friday and Saturday night gigs at some of London's finest pub and club venues til the cows come home and dance silently in that way that they do, somehow managing to be large and uncouth bovines and delicate unicorns of love, but a night like tonight, the early in the week 'industry night' is a new thing for us. We spent ages getting the stage of being headliners for weekend club nights that I would have cut both my arms and both your arms off to headline and now we play these nights, the nights that we started playing ages ago! What goes around comes around and flicks you in the nipples it seems...

We also played really well tonight. We really don't make music for anyone else but the four of us in the band. It's a mix of our opinions and thoughts, and we all have a few things in common and a few passions. This is coming from the fact that the band after us were really good. I mean, lots of fun, great sound and cool. And it hit me. They were subtle, nichey and lovely, and there were things that they did that we wouldn't do by choice (and I'm sure they'd not want to be like us), but I wouldn't want to be them in a million years. There needs to be bands like them, like Mumford and Sons (who I do like a lot) and the kind of band that come after them. But it's not us.

We're not going to be arty in a way that makes you stop and think about the sensual and subtle changes and nuances along the way. We're not going to be indie low fi cool anytime soon. But goddam holy shit balls to the wall. We love what we do. We write big songs. Songs that are good without you having to think about why or how. Choruses like brain tumours, verses like sledgehammers. Our subtleties will make most bands choruses (chori?) blush. I'm not saying it's for everyone, far from it. I'm just commenting on what makes us us and what makes them them.

I couldn't give a monkey's hymen breaking orgasm about any other band, and I'm not asking you to think about us in a new and different way. In the same way that tonight is making me want to re-write pretty much all the lyrics in our current set, it's just what it is. Which is exactly the point of Dead on TV. We have never made apologies or explanations. This has gone on a bit now, but I guess for me it's been a bit random over the last few months. Discovering the difference between honesty and being honest with music.

Roll on we say.

Roll on and Niko don't leave. You're part of us>

Roll on.