wow wow wow, so what's new?

i just had breakfast and it's already way past my bedtime. we're going out of town this week to play some shows in leicester and peterborough so if you live there then there's no reason not to come. it'll be really fun to get out of the smoke, it's just been raining too much lately here...

then half the band goes to new york to shake some hands, watch some bands and smoke some fags. we'll be back and then we get straight to work re-recording our EP. more proof that computers cannot be trusted and that we should all still be recording sam cooke style, the hard drive at the studio crashed and all 90 hours of our work is now floating somewhere in silicone valley as we speak.

so yeah. we get to do the whole thing again. this means i get to be darby crash again 'the drums are too slow, the bass is too fast, chords are all wrong'... we're actually kind of excited in a weird way. and this means that the two tracks on our page become 'myspace exclusives', and will never be available to buy. at least not until our crack habits get so bad that we're selling everything from unreleased demos to ivan's shoes... we've had some ace feedback on 'pearls on broadway', and we just put 'six times over' up so let us know what you think.

so if you don't hapen to live in the midlands, our next london show is at bloomsbury bowling lanes with those capersome lads the skintight jaguars on june 16th. and speaking of shows, check out this ace webzine, www.nemesis.to, who had some nice things to say about our avengers show a month or so ago:

Love and a 45 filter first-wave punk influences through a grubby old grunge tea towel, and the result is music which combines dangerously jagged edges and devilishly catchy tunes. The guitar sound is abrasive, the beats never less than insistent. The singer, bounding around beneath a mop of blonde hair, lets rip with a rasp that makes me fear for her vocal chords. But she's got a ton of personality, and this, combined with those catchy tunes, is the band's secret superpower, the factor that pushes them above the seething mass of shout 'n' bash punker contenders. You could easily imagine the band breaking out of the punk zone and finding a bigger audience among everyone who likes their pop songs served with a piquant dollop of sharp guitar sauce. 'Breakdown Payout' is the number that just might do it, too, for it's got a mighty fine hear-it-once-it's-in-your-head-all-day chorus, and when was the last time you heard one of those? If Love and a .45 represent the future of pop-punk, then it would seem it's going to be a cross between CBGB-era Blondie and Dinosaur Jr. You know what? I'll 'ave some of that.

and tonight's sidebar is: never forget the feeling of elation when something goes away and when you get it back it's still as great as you remember it.

goodnight

Love and a .45 xxx