Prologue:
There is disagreement amongst people about the efficacy of having and making plans… there are those who believe that having a plan is asking for trouble and an almost dead cert route to calamity…
On the other hand, there are those who suggest that having a plan, while never a guarantee for achievement, is a tactic to combat the fickle whims of fate and serendipity…
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The first thing I want to write is a statement of thanks to everyone who bought a CD off us at the shows that we’ve played in the past couple of months… your individual squid coins for our wee demo have proved so valuable to us in terms of being able to part subsidise our fun… it is pretty cool to think that since February we have managed to shift around 100+ demos and that, directly because of this overwhelming generosity, we’ve been able to travel across the country to do a couple of shows without having to rape our feeble bank accounts!!!
…very fucking cool… ta!
We did Shitstock, a Roth show with our fellow slime-dwellers ‘Hand of Grief’ and we popped our Birmingham cherry with a show at the Old Wharf… for anyone who caught us, I hope it was plain quite how much we enjoy doin’ MOTM and that some of that energy and enthusiasm keeps you popping along to our shows and giving us the odd clap here and there!!!
We were due to play 2 more shows this month – 14th @ Leeds ‘Royal Park Cellars’ and 23rd @ London ‘The Gaff’ but unfortunately for different reasons these shows were pulled from under us and so we only have a Leeds show at the Well (used to be Joseph’s Well) on the 27th… which means that since February we have FIVE (2 x Manchester/ 1 x Leeds / 1 x Notts / 1 x London) shows cancelled by venues or promoters (to our 1 - which was down to a death in the family)… I don’t know if this has to do with bad luck or the wider political and economic situation we are in, but the cynic might be tempted to suggest that other more inane and avoidable factors are at play…
I really hope this isn’t the shape of things to come and that as we get going we will work with all kind of folk as confident, as committed and as concrete as ourselves…
Whilst being pretty gutted about these cancellations, we remain unperturbed… and this is because we have ‘The Plan’… the idea being that we can weather these hiccups and still have plenty of work to be getting on with…
Roughly, we are going to take these next 6 weeks or so until the end of June to write and record at least another 3 track demo. Come July, we hope to do a good run of shows, wind up the propaganda machine and make some noise before disappearing for the summer…
In between tanning our balls, sipping over-priced booze and catching the flus off of aeroplane air-conditioning, August and September will hopefully see us record some 8 tracks or so (all the demoed tracks + a couple more) to a release quality level…
Then we’re on about putting these recordings out in some form or another and focusing on gigging through the winter… hopefully to emerge in the spring with a bit more of a platform to do more recording and releases…
While not set in stone, this is nonetheless ‘The Plan’ and although Serendipity is fickle and sometimes cruel, she is alluring and seductive and rewards those that court her with ambition and overt acts of sacrifice to her honour…
...roll the dice…
b!x
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