Like a dreamless sleep.

Sorry that we've been so quiet. We've been busy doing stuff rather than writing about doing stuff.

Been thinking a lot about outsiders. Outcasts. How we want to belong but never quite seem to fit in. We've got our own thing going on. I never really appreciated that. Making the most of that. Got some tricks up our sleeves.

You find a gang who all dress like you. But people are people. And it's not enough to just dress like your friends. But more on that later...

Also been thinking again about how making CD's and doing gigs just aren't enough anymore. Boring. Boooring. So we're working on some things, some happenings and objects and stuff. Just to keep things interesting. Won't say much yet cause it's early days. But expect a few surprises.

Some ace new mixes going on. Really making progress in terms of the sound, the arrangements. All that crap. Really getting the hang of all that. Again, more details soon.

There are now a couple of videos for Thirst and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Thanks to MsD and Ruse23 for filming us doing stuff, and taking the time to put it all together and make it look nice. There's a rough edit of Something Wicked up on youtube at the moment.

Also had a great session with Al and Jo. The makings of another fine CDoG mess we've gotten ourselves into. Avant BBC Radiophonic Workshop train station stories... CDoG doing Sapphire and Steel. If I get my way...

Anyway, I'm going to bed. Night. X

New track Aminal up on our myspace. Next gig = Tuesday June 3rd @ The Good Ship, Kilburn. With visuals and infra-sound by HRT!

And a fucking hello to you too! Oh yes.

But you're not actually going out dressed like that are you?

I'm still here.





Following three weeks without any kind of sensible sleep or food. Another hard drive bit the dust. Typically, on the same day we receive a rather scary gift in the form an iPhone... It's all gone gloriously manic once again I guess. No time to stop and think. You just have to get on with it.







An excellent recording session on saturday. A day out on sunday, an excellent Flame On gig / house warming at Flame House. We're not in a rush to gig but there's a couple of possibles including some summer festival dates. Yes, seriously.







I've also been patching together copies of latest 'lost' mixes for the recent batch of CD orders - some recent stuff is maybe gone for good, but the likes of Something, You're The One and Hope from the recent live sets are safe thank fook. I'm waiting for the go ahead from Garfield for copies of Reel / Invisible (those songs are never going to go away are they? Goes to show you that it's not just about production!).

We're walking through a market place that's like a vast outdoor cloak-room. There's a music festival going on a little further along. They're using mirrors to make things appear bigger than they are. The stage is a huge tilted mirror. There's about thirty people all sat on the ground. I can see my brother backstage larking about with The Horrors.

"How do you know The Horrors?" I ask him when he joins us.
"They work in the same supermarket as me." He says.

Beth hands me a package. It's got "my brother's little brother" in it. He's tiny. I hold his tiny hand as we walk through the coat-hangers.

We have a TV in our house for the first time in two or three years. I can't believe the utter shit I've been missing out on. The liquid insults that are 'adverts' for liquid filth I cannot believe. We've got 200 channels and it's the same utter shit day and night.

I'm watching Children of Men again on DVD and In Search of the Miraculous on youtube. And I've just run out of fags. And it's 5 am. And I'm struggling to do more in the time allowed. Trying to sort out the new CD. I've re-recorded some of the vocals, they're maybe a bit too big and harsh. Taken some bass end off - ridiculous that you get more bass end in a voice than a bass guitar. Still working on the bass sound too, it sounded better a couple of months ago not sure what's gone wrong there. But I'm really happy with the arrangements at the moment.