Hello.

Firstly, thanks to everyone who came to Night of the Long Swords on Saturday. It was hot and late when we went on so I’m really glad that people stayed and made us feel welcome enough to air a lot of new material. Apologies to those who had to leave early to get the tube, and massive thanks to those who stayed and missed theirs (I still feel like I left too early.)

So we’ve been in deepest West Wales recording what will eventually become our debut album. I think it’s fair to say we’d all been looking forward to doing this for as long as we can remember, and we weren’t disappointed. Living amongst the ruins of a mansion in the late summer weather, in almost complete isolation with your best friends, a beautiful studio and a job to do was every bit as good as that sounds.

I almost want to keep the studio a secret it’s so good but that would be unfair to Jethro, who’s put a lot of hard work into making Mwnci Studios what it is. He’s a great engineer and a thoroughly nice man and the studio and surroundings are nothing short of idyllic.

We rushed back from Wales to play a last minute support for Dinosaur Jr at Koko. It was an overwhelming experience for all of us, not least since we’d been in the middle of nowhere for two weeks with very little contact with the outside world. We loved it though, thanks everyone who turned up to support us.

So the album is underway but is still a long way off, we’ve got a lot of work to do. We won’t be doing a lot of live shows over the next few months but we’re not disappearing entirely, the next show is with Akron/Family at the Garage in Islington, which I am ridiculously excited about. Their show at the ICA a few months ago was one of the best things I’ve seen all year.

Lastly, our friend Mark Oliver designed the amazing banner which is at the top of our page and with some nagging from us he made a limited run of screen prints to sell at the show last weekend. There are a few left that you can buy from him via our page. I’ll put a link up soon.

Sorry for the huge message, I didn’t intend it to be that long.

So long and take care,

Love,

WPx