back in front of the familiar warm glow of screens. the warm fuzzy feeling is either comfort, or indigestion from breakfast.

got back from london and headed straight to practice. our rehearsal area is freezing in the winter and baking in the summer. despite the cooling, gorgeous summer day outside, it was getting hotter and hotter - i came home dripping with sweat (we decided to run through all the new stuff and as we've been working so hard, it took longer than half an hour....busy boys eh??).

We wrote what is designed to be the last song on the album last night (or at least finished writing it). You see, this isn't a collection of random stuff that we've thrown together...far from it. Dan and I talked about albums that we love the ending of and pretty quickly worked out that we aren't into a slow, drifty ending with fade outs and repeats. With that in mind, we rocked the whole thing out - put it two hooks and kick in even harder towards the end. vocal outro. job done.

"we've got this down to a science baby, we don't make mistakes, we don't intend to make"

since we put everything else on hold, our output has gone through the roof (i.e. we've actually managed to write something), we've finished what is lovingly referred to as 'the lesbian song' and the last song on the album. they all need polishing and playing live to double check them (and yes i'm still behind on my lyrics, but if a guy like me can't come through to save the game in the dying seconds, then i don't know who can).

this is what mixing looks like right now - it's what i'm gonna be seeing a lot of when we finally get round to recording some songs.

if you can find a copy - check out a song called 'overkill' by colin hay. i saw it on a tv show and went out of my way to check it out...it was worth it.

dates are now starting to get booked for the new schools tours. it's gonna be awesome playing the new songs for you guys....we will probably have some words and names by then...although standing in front of a few hundred people, most of whom are under 16, and saying "this song is for a lesbian who i have a crush on" would be worth half a smile....and probably get a bigger cheer than dan's new guitar solo (kidding dude - it's actually pretty good this time round). hood up, volume up, middle finger up.

i hope you're ok. i really do. i probably never tell any of you, but that's just how it goes i guess.

time to go, see you around, max x