For anyone who read yesterday's post, here's a quick update on what I was going on about. The street date for the Kerrang review will be Wednesday 13th Feb, so go check it out if you wanna read it.

We won the Battle Of The Bands thing last night - which is cool although I am always torn between thinking that judging different genres of music against each other is unfair, and my massively competitive ego which demands that I win. We were pretty laid back about the whole thing and just went about it like it was a normal show - we were the only band to turn up with any merch for sale (although nobody bought anything - why do kids in other bands never buy merch?...too poor i guess). Anyway - we'll be back there again playing another show for those guys at some point, I just don't know the date yet.

More stuff for you to watch/listen to - Hit The Lights have posted up a new demo on their MySpace. Their singer left last year and the guitarist is now singing for them and doing a pretty good job - check it out at www.myspace.com/hitthelights. On the way home last night I watched the movie Gone Baby Gone on my ipod, and it turned out to be pretty great...it was due out here over Christmas, but got postponed due to Madeleine McCann's disappearance (the central theme of the film is about a little girl being kidnapped). Go check out more info about it on imdb here.

Got some bad news this morning about someone in my extended family, which sucks. I am very close with my immediate family - I have two sisters, both of whom have two kids and I see them all at least once a fortnight or so (and usually more often than that), but I am very guilty of not seeing my extended family (grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins etc.) enough. Some of my family got in touch via Facebook recently so I am going to make the effort and go see them soon, whether they like it or not. I guess if I can drive across the country with a load of equipment to see a room full of strangers I can get in the car and visit family. I shouldn't need bad news to remind me, but I get caught up in myself a lot, so something's gotta kick me in the ass every now and then.

Hope you're all ok,

Max x