I won't bother telling you how close the new CD is to being ready, it's all we seem to talk about these days (you and me, not the band, we are on top of it).

New songs are coming together - not sure if we'll be able to get it all together for the shows we have coming up - I have four songs waiting for lyrics to be finished. I don't take them lightly so they have to wait for me - i'm not into half-assed attempts and patching over things that aren't good enough.

Started chatting about plans for recording the album - how scary is that?!?! We don't want to release it without the help of a label that can help us out with marketing and touring on release. We are only self-sufficient to a point, our budgets are just a little bit too low to run production and marketing at the moment. I know that sounds like business-type stuff, but some band stuff is like that...working out how much money the band has, and what we need to fund the next CD, merch order etc.

The plan that I started talking about a few months ago...I didn't want to say anything at the time, but there will be some news posted on the site soon. We don't always feel at home in some of the places we play - the crowd are older than us and maybe cynical or jaded - we've come up with something that solves that problem for us. It's gonna be weird....but fun i think :o) Everyone I have told so far has been surprised...i thought it was a pretty logical step to take...fortunately i am arrogant to the end and thus have complete confidence in my judgement.

I have to get some words done....god knows how...