"I hate this song, and I hate all of you...just kidding...I don't hate this song"

As promised, I grabbed a photo of Kev's hands between takes. He uses this Stick & Finger Tape so that he doesn't get bad blisters - it's not usually a problem on tour, cos he only does an hour or so at a time, but in the studio he plays for hours on end and it's messing him up a little.

So where are we up to? Well, pretty much all the drums for the album tracks are done - that's 12 songs. We, as usual, have a few extra songs and we chatted last night about what to do with them...I think only one of them will end up getting recorded...better luck next time for the other ones.

Dan and I are disappearing off to London for a few days to watch Hit The Lights and New Found Glory - they are some of my favourite bands and i'm looking forward to chilling out for a few days.

When we get back, we'll start looking at bass and guitar parts. In the past, we've done all the bass, then all the guitars...but that has caused a few problems (I'll save the delights of strumming patterns and on-beat v. off-beat chord changes for another post)., so this time we'll work together, like a well-oiled machine and get them all done.

By the way, if you are on our mailing list, Dan is gonna start sending you stuff in the next couple of weeks. Fish it out of your junk folder and read it so he feels less lonely.

Max.