We’re right now in a dressing room in Milan. The sound of The Cure’s soundcheck is echoing down the corridors toward us. How would you go about designing a building where if a band was soundchecking onstage at X bpm, then you could be sat in a dressing room where four corridors converge and it would be like the entire band was playing through a tape delay with four separate heads?

I guess at the very least you would need a degree in architecture, something which Simon doesn’t have because he DROPPED OUT to be in 65daysofstatic instead.

Simon is depicted on the Sistine Chapel with the word ‘booze’ underneath him. This is absolutely true. We know because we saw it yesterday. We also didn’t see the Pope because he has MAD CASH and didn’t grant us an audience with him even though Rob was wearing Bono sunglasses and Joe was tearing up condoms and speaking in tongues. That’s the problem with organised religion. Busy schedule.

We also saw the ruins of the Roman Empire that expanded too far too fast and collapsed into itself. There are probably several emo bands called ‘While Rome Burns’ in the world and maybe a couple of black metal albums called that too. Which is a shame, because it would be quite a nice metaphor for a lot of things. It’s where we’re all headed anyways…

Do you want to hear about our travels? Do you want to hear about our shows? Should we, as a band, be working harder to make a direct connection with you guys who are so kind as to listen to our music and visit this website? Or should we be trying harder to maintain an air of mystery about everything we do? Cling to the smoke & mirrors which make everything involved with being a band touring arenas across Europe seem cool? Even though it actually involves a lot of sitting around with laptops and washing in the mornings by pouring a bottle of water over your head?

You’ll have to tell us.

We are also, incidentally, getting more and more excited about our headline shows. We are THIS close (as in, the size of the word ‘THIS’) to finalising the supports and it’s gonna be sweet. Check the shows page for full details. You’ll be hearing our new single soon too cos the press will have got hold of it by now and you know how they like to leak things.
Speaking of leaking things, seen as you can get all of our stuff on the torrents for free, why on earth would you be willing to spend a hundred pounds or more on some of our old cds that someone’s selling on ebay? Please don’t. If you really, really want to waste that money, then give it to Amnesty International, tell us about it, and then we’ll let you be the singer in our band. Cos we don’t have a front man and if we wanna make it in this business we should probably get one.

Anyway. See you at the 65 shows in April, yeah?

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