Seedy Underbelly

At the weekend we took up residence in LA for the next 6 weeks. We are working with Nick Launay who produced the Grinderman albums and The Cribs last record, plus a whole load of other great records including Talking Heads and PIL. We are in the middle of rehearsing and reworking the 10 songs that will make up our third studio album proper. It's been a long 2 years of writing, and so many songs rejected. It's been pretty crazy how many songs we have written and how we have whittled it down to 10. But I'm hoping that it will all be worth the pain and that every song on this record will be the best we can do.
Its hot as hell in LA. It reminds me of that Bill Hicks thing about "Every day hot and sunny, what are you a fucking lizard? Back east we're evolving". But it does have a great pool.
The streets are so green in the suburban bits but you soon realize that nothing apart from the Cacti and Aloes are native. Everything else is supported by those pop up sprinklers. Acres of green lawns with no one using them, the only people you see on them are the mexicans cutting them. It literally is another world.
Henry

Hiatus

My brain is frazzled with music. We (the band) have been steadily going mad in our Oxford studio trying to make an amazing record. It is probably the most funnist thing ever but I just don't remind myself of that often enough. The hardest thing is to make it all sound easy. We have written about 25 songs and a bunch of half ideas and we are just honing and honing them until we have something we all think is suoer. It's not like before when we just wrote 14 songs, recorded them all and put nearly all of them on the album. I think its going to be worth the wait.

We are off to meet producers over the next few weeks, I will tell you who it's going to be as soon as I can but I don't want to jinx anything.

We are going to do some gigs in May to try some tunes out and generally blow the cobwebs out. It's only a few but we wanted to do some more off the radar gigs so they can be super cool and special rather than a big long run of endless dates when we haven't even got the album done yet. These dates are the only gigs we have planned so far for this year. We aren't doing any festivals (boo hoo, no muddy guitars to clean off after every weekend).

Here are the dates and info:

Thurs 6th May
Keele, University
www.seetickets.com
01782 733 700

Friday 7th May
Aldershot, The Palace
www.ticketweb.co.uk
08444 771 000

Saturday 8th May
Leicester, Music Café
www.ticketsource.co.uk/shadowpromotionsuk
0116 232 0794

Transgressive 5th Birthday bash at Heaven 24th Sept

Hello, Our record label, Transgressive records, is 5 years old and to celebrate we are playing a gig for them at Heaven in london. We are going to be playing with Ox, Eagle, Lion Man and Esser. If you want to come then you are quite welcome but you will have to pay an entrance fee of £14.

Go here to buy a ticket.

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=329462&interface=heaven

Also if you go here:

http://www.transgressiverecords.co.uk/theyoungknives

You can vote for what songs you want us to play for you and we will play the most popular choices. Hopefully this policy will make for a good show.


Henry

Can't think of a subject...

Cardiff

Yes we smashed up Cardiff. Sailor Jerry's rum helped it on it's way.
There was a lot of fresh moves in the club afterwards. Well we thought
they were fresh, actually It was probably like one of those
educational films they showed in school "look at this man he thinks he
is dancing well but he is drunk". You get the drift. My funny story is
that I got so drunk that I sleepwalked in the hotel. I woke up outside
my room in my pants. When I eventually found the room I knocked to
wake House but he would not wake up. I thought I was going to have to
go down to reception in my pants but luckily I found an open room full
of hotel uniforms so I put on one of them and got a new key from
reception. So it was a good night. Christ. Oh and here was the start
with false tashes.

Colchester Arts centre

It's Sunday. We are in a Church

Damn!

No picture of the day for High Wycome. It was good though. I can hardly speak because I was singing through a cold but 2 days off should sort it. The song Everything falls into place did not fall into place however. I am blaming House because he was drunk and his girlfriend was there so he wasn't paying attention, definitely not my fault. sweet. x