We're back home from summer touring -- after all these years, it's surprising how many places we still haven't played. This set of shows included debuts in Dublin, Galway, Belfast, Toulouse, and... Louisville. How did we manage to miss Louisville? To celebrate, we ate a hot brown sandwich (see Jane & Michael Stern) and -- in an ode to our own dressing room rider -- visited the Maker's Mark factory. That invitation on the side of the bottle is for real!

Meanwhile, other factory wheels turned and our More Sad Hits reissue is now ready to ship. Well, the CD is -- for the LP, we'll have to wait a bit longer. It seems that everyone suddenly wants to make LPs again, which means the few remaining pressing plants are completely overwhelmed. So our promised June delivery date has been rescheduled for . . . September? Let's hope!

The good news is that the CD package turned out beautifully. It's made to look like a mini-gatefold LP, on heavy shiny card stock, and there's really no better way to describe it than, "cute." Admitedly, we have a weakness for mini-LP-style packages on heavy shiny card stock -- witness the many, many Korean psychedelic reissues in our CD collection. But could we dream for more, than to have our own CD stand alongside Shin Joong-Hyun and the Men?
Yes: we could dream that Robert Wyatt blurbed our album. Thank you Robert!

In other merch news, our summer tour t-shirts, tote bags, and posters are now available from the website. To avoid disappointment, order soon because once these are gone, they will not be reprinted.

Finally, we should mention that Cedrick Eymenier's lovely video for Within These Walls is now up on pitchfork.tv -- and the video quality there is much better than on youtube.