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  • Last show, time to make a record!
              
    September 10, 2010

    In a few hours we are playing at the Teatro dell’Arte in Milan. It will be the last show for a good while, and in fact pretty much for this year… as amazing as it has been, we have been on the road for the best part of a year, so after we get off that flight in London tomorrow it will be a strange thing to actually be in one place for more than a few days.

    It is rare to find the time and headspace to get creative on the road, but we’ve collected a good few song ideas to get us started writing the next record and now the process of finishing that job awaits us. Exciting days ahead.

    A massive

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  • Countdown To Zero: Cathy and Leon talk about the Bomb
              
    September 8, 2010

    Cathy and Leon (along with people from a bunch of other bands) talking about the silliness that is nuclear weapons, for a new documentary called Countdown To Zero.

    Watch the interviews here

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  • Broken vans and broken drivers. FAIL!
              
    August 19, 2010

    Sadly we had to pull out of two gigs in the last week. One of which was the awesome Summer Sundae in Leicester. We had to pull out of last years event too due to the dreaded swine flu Cathy picked up. This year it was because our usual driver was rushed to hospital minutes before picking us up to take us there. We did eventually get in the van 3 hours late with a maniac behind the wheel.

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  • Vacation time.
              
    May 31, 2010

    As i write we are back on the road in Europe. And thorougly refreshed we feel too after a 4 week break in which we all but one decided to leave the country. For my vacation I decided to split it up between San Fransisco and Chicago. Something i have always wanted to do since i started spending so much time in the U.S., walking their wide flat streets and vast expanses of open space and breathtaking scenery was take my bike there and just ride around a whole bunch.

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  • Fear and loathing in Rotterdam
              
    May 27, 2010

    There’s nothing like easing yourself into touring with a sunny day in a European city. But there’s something almost utopian about the sheer number of bikes, water features (canals, lakes, The Sea), and public art displays in Rotterdam. A particularly eye-catching piece was visible out of our window: 6m (20 foot) Santa holding a giant butt plug (its bigger than his head!). This bronze ‘Santa’ (chocolate and inflatable versions also exist): quickly came to be known locally as a ‘gnome’, and no wonder: it looks strikingly like a garden figurine or a Disney character out of Snow White.

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