Archive for October, 2010

Brooklyn fun: We nestled ourselves into the Williamsburg area with a day off followed by two shows at the Music Hall. This was exciting for several reasons a) the possibility of them both being sold out and b) the luxury of a hotel bed. We spent our time in the larger New York area having different [...]

Today we are in New Haven, CT I am currently logged onto the internet network known as YaleGuest and I feel like a imposter. Lets face it kids, I was never going to make it to Yale (for starters its too far away from Cardiff) but I can wonder around the campus with the Jean [...]

I got this picture from a shop in St Joseph in Michigan, it was nestled amongst a collection of old portrait shots  labeled “instant ancestors,” I naturally chose the one who most resembled me. I like to think she was a elegant woman who was married off into the Clergy for a suitable dower, and [...]

So, it’s early morning and my body thinks I’ve slept in late and is wondering why my stomach isn’t full of baked beans yet, but there’s barely light cracking the blinds and I can’t even hear vacuum cleaners in the hotel corridors yet. Jet Lagged. Our flight over yesterday was fine. Uneventful and fine. I [...]

Oh yeh guys, we did an advert for Budweiser. Pretty neat, huh? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fddbcAIyxM] Oh and by the way, while I’m here, we’ve got a new t-shirt design available in our merch store. No big deal. BUY$$$BUY$$$BUY$$$BUY$$$BUY$$$ Super limited edition. A few available on our coming US tour. But very few available online.

Before and between bands at our pop concerts I always leave my iPod at the sound desk, blasting an LC! approved playlist as a slight to inhouse sound guys with awful music taste and to make sure we never walk onstage to a Remi Nicole song ever again. I’m always really pleased when I see [...]

Guys, music is great isn’t it? Actually, not all of it is, which is why it’s important I write about the following stuff. Because I’m sick to my back teeth of hearing people spouting on about absolute bullshit bands. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MbK4gEkk5A] F.I.L.A. – The-Dream (feat. T.I.) I dunno if my favourite album of the year thus [...]