Hey, this is all band stuff, so if you're looking for your name next to mine, switch off now.

Home-town show last night (that's Saturday night for anyone not paying attention) was awesome. For anyone that wasn't sweating their asses off along with us, (how the hell does that place get so hot??...normally stage lights are to blame....but they don't even have room lights, let alone anything else) we played mostly new tracks. Sorry if they were a little shaky but we never want to be the band that always turns out the same set of songs night after night...just not our style. We're from the MTV generation, our attention spans are probably shorter than yours.

Thank you to everyone that spoke to me after the show, (Lizzie and James - I got your photo, I will make sure it gets posted up) to Kenzie and Aiden for running our camera, Kayleigh for taking photos of the three people in her immediate vicinity and everyone else that helped us out/got injured while moshing/just came and watched.

Some of the tracks hadn't even been played live yet (yeah...we could tell too)... but a HUGE thank you to the people that picked up the hook to one of the new songs after the first couple of choruses and were already singing along by the end. That is so fucking cool you have no idea.

Any faces that got on the camera will be in the next video (which will probably be half live/half studio....which leads me neatly into what we got up to today...

Spent the morning getting our rehearsal room ready for recording...which meant moving a load of heavy equipment (not my favourite job) and then getting kev's kit set up with loads of blankets/pillows/acoustic panels/duvets/hoody's/loads of other padded stuff placed around it. The room sounds really dead and it's little spooky, we are used to it being full of our junk and rattling and rumbling as we all play (my bass amp makes the door shake which makes me smile).

Then we spent hours trying different microphones and moving them around to make sure everything sounds just right...it's pretty boring, but i love it. It completely sums me up.

The next few days will consist of telling Kev to play the songs over and over, but i like bossing him around so it's a cool job to have ;o)

I gotta go as my favourite distraction is calling.

Max xx