A reminder of the excursions for some live shows over the next few weeks… surprises are promised!
Saturday 16 May – Leytonstone, London What’s Cookin Upstairs At The Sheep Walk, 692 High Road, Leytonstone, London, E11 Admission free (a hat goes round!) Doors 8.30pm www.whatscookin.co.uk
Thursday 21 May – Leeds Milo, 10-12 Call Lane  Leeds LS1 6DN Admission – £5 Doors – 8pm Hopefully Paul from The Scaramanga Six will also do an acoustic set plusindiepop disco with DJs from With Whom to Dance between the bands and after the show.
Friday 22 May – Liverpool The International Pop Overthrow Festival The Cavern Pub at 5.30 pm & The Cavern Club Front Stage at 10:15pm Admission free !!ALSO FEATURES ANDY LEWIS PLAYING 2 SETS!!! www.internationalpopoverthrow.com www.myspace.com/internationalpopoverthrow
Saturday 30 May – Scunthorpe With Mark Morris and The Red Stops The Priory, Ashby Road, Scunthorpe Admission £5 advance or £7 on the door Tickets Venue 01724 270077 or Daz 07828440478 Doors 7 pm www.myspace.com/tachelesspromotions
Then a 3 track download will be available from 15th June featuring “Dissolving Time”, “Spiralina Girl” and “Restless Soul” (unreleased live fave)!!
And, after a little delay, “This Is A Souvenir” the Spearmint/Shirley Lee songbook is being released by Image Comics Inc. It will be available from 20th May, can’t wait for that one!!!

See you all Saturday,  Neil

Some rare regional gigs have now been finalised, here are the full details:

Saturday 16 May
What’s Cookin, upstairs @ The Sheep Walk
692 High Road
Leytonstone, London, E11
Admission: free (a hat goes round!) Doors: 8.30pm www.whatscookin.co.uk

Thursday 21 May
Milo
10-12 Call Lane 
Leeds LS1 6DN
Admission: £5 Doors: 8pm
Hopefully Paul from The Scaramanga Six will also do an acoustic set, plus indiepop disco with DJs from With Whom to Dance

Friday 22 May
Liverpool: The International Pop Overthrow Festival
The Cavern Pub at 5.30 pm & The Cavern Club Front Stage at 10:15pm
Admission: free
www.internationalpopoverthrow.com
www.myspace.com/internationalpopoverthrow

Saturday 30 May
The Priory
Ashby Road
Scunthorpe
Admission £5 advance or £7 on the door
Tickets Venue 01724 270077 or Daz 07828440478
Doors 7 pm www.myspace.com/tachelesspromotions

Possibility of a second single from the album to tie in with the gigs… watch this space, Neil

With the new album now available everywhere through this link here (amongst other places) I was wondering what we think of it all, and what’s our favourite track on it, come to that?   For me it’s “The Lights Change”, indeed from the first hearing it was and a couple of hundred listens to the whole album now, it still is!!  Now, I know I’m a fraction biased but the whole album hits all my most sensitive spots all the way through… that’s obviously why I love the boys so very much, everything appeals all the time.

For me it’s great to hear recorded versions of “Spiralina Girl”, “Come on Feel the Lemonheads” and “The Smack of Pavement in Your Face” after numerous live outings, especially from the last Germany/Austria tour, wunderbar!  And all the new songs fit perfectly inside my head, another album that just repeats and repeats for as long as I have time to listen.  And finally, just to scare her, my fave lyric has to be… “there is a Bridie shaped, space within my arms…” except I change it to “Cheryl, Basti & Josie-shaped” of course.

more news shortly,  Neil H