Chicken-Fajita-Lasagne-Pie, Comfy Sofas & Tea
Wow, this has been an unbelieveable period for us. The 3rd part of our graphic novel teaser is now up so you can now look at all 15 pages as a whole. We are really proud of it and Stef and Artjaz absolutely smacked it. Will keep you posted about how things progress with this stuff.
We have had a busy few weeks working with Roll Deep and Jodie Connor who as you all know are currently UK number 1. We had a Live Lounge session at BBC Maida Vale studio which went remarkably smoothly. Acutally the only thing that went wrong was the weird chicken fajita lasange pie thing they served us for lunch and someone lifted our Wispa bar!!
We had 10 hours of rehearsals over the 2 days before which were quite tough. They booked out a really nice place for us on day one but day 2 we took everyone to our regular spot in North Acton. Even though it smells like dead cats we always get wicked results there and they sell ginger beer. Safe.
We only had to do 2 tracks for the BBC a guitar based version of the single and a cover. Initially we were going to do a mashup version of Drake’s new track over but we basically thought it was LAME so scratched that idea. Scott then came up with the GENIUS suggestion of doing a version of Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s Telephone with Jodie singing the intro and chorus and the Roll Deep boys spitting 16 bars for the verses. Had to change some of music a bit, but we absolutely SMASHED it. Radio 1 are now all over it and its given us a massive amount of attention. If you see Scott in the street give him a pat on the back!! You can then pinch him straight afterwards as we don’t want all this going to his head!!
We’ve also formed a new supergroup with the legendary drummer Joe “Rad Joeb” Birch founder member of Hell is for Heroes and Symposium to back up Let’s Go to War, an elctro, hip hop, punk mashup fronted by Canada’s hottest export since maple syrup, Peter-John Kerr! Its been likened to a hip hop version of cult band Refused. After 20+ locked in rehearsals we played our first show on the Redbull stage at the Camden Crawl on the 1st May. About 400 people turned up and we KILLED IT!! Screaming kids, crying girls, etc. In fact, it went so well, the organiser of the Camden Crawl ran back stage and offered us a slot at Koko, that same evening! Apparently, the band that was due to play had a car crash on their way to the festival. Luckily, nobody spotted the brake fluid stains on Stef’s jeans!! Anyway, we literally BLEW UP Koko. About 1500 people went crazy! One of the greatest shows any of us have ever played. The only problem we had was a broken guitar string minutes before the curtain went up.
Show number 3 of that weekend was for Vice Magazine at the Old Blue Last on Sunday 2nd. We actually had our first proper soundcheck here which was obviously helpful. This one went pretty well too with the crowd screaming for more at the end. We have a few more big shows this week. Shoreditch House tomorrow, Barfly on Thursday and two at the Great Escape festival in Brighton.
During this crazy stuff happening we all seem to have developed a craving for pots of tea, comfy sofas and soothing music. Not very rock and roll but I suppose we never really were so no point starting now!
We’re just finishing up some new tracks so keep an ear out as you’re going to be hearing a lot more us on your radio very, very soon!!
Thats about it for now. You can check out some of the photos of everything thats been happening and we’ll have another up date for you soon. Feel free to give us some tea suggestions too. We keep on moving between Earl Grey and PG Tips. There got to be more to this new tea universe!!
On that bombshell.
Hold tight.
3DS
