Greetings sons and daughters of rock! Jimmy drummer here...I thought we had better give you some kind of update as to our movements on the rock and roll spectrum (whatever that means) for 2009. In this day and age of constant blog updates, emails and video diaries we find ourselves once again lagging behind the crowd with updating our site, facebook and myspace. This is probably something we need to work on but in truth we'll probably always be not very good at communicating with y'all until we can afford to employ a web minion. Until then you'll have to make do with sporadic musings from behind the drum stool.

So it's been a good year so far - my wife gave birth to our beautiful baby girl on 24th Jan which as life events go is a hard one to beat! So we are now a band of three fathers (Henry first, Marc last year) which feels pretty cool.

Our main focus as a band right now is that we're thinking about new songs again. Even though Innocence still feels really fresh to us, the new stuff just keeps coming every time we get in the rehearsal room and new songs are always a shot in the arm. No plans are in place for a third album yet but just before Christmas we went back to Street Studios (where we tracked some of Innocence) and demoed two new songs with German producer Udo Rinklin. Despite a load of hippies demonstrating on the runway at Stansted making Udo's flight late and us forgetting where the 'on' button for the Neves was, it felt good to be in the hands of a producer again. The cafetiere took a beating and the red bull flowed down our throats and later on in the curry house we reflected that the results were indeed good and rock had been had this day.

So now we're planning to re-record the tracks properly in March and then work out what to do with them. Live dates are beginning to come in too so hopefully we'll see some of you again soon. There's also rumours of a new van which will mean more UK shows and less Mondeos on the roads of England. Ciaovidersehn, Jimmy.