OUR NEXT SHOW

well good day folks, and what a lovely Monday it is. Apart of course for the fact it's Monday and most of us have to go off and earn money....sigh. Anyways reverting to happier times my mind is cast back to Saturday night when we played our best gig to date in Glasgow at King Tut's with the lovely Amphetameanies. Now as well as being the ska band with the sexiest members that we've played with (other than Bombskare obviously... snort) they like us seem to suffer from the old East hates West and vice versa divide in ye olde Scotland. It seems like only months ago (it was about 2 years*) that we bought them through to play in at the Bongo Club in Edinburgh and they were surprised at how well they went down (I wasn't I think they're great). We in the land of tha hand have suffered the same fate a tad given that we ram our shows at pretty much every Scottish festival or gig we play outside of Glasgow.

It's also not through lack of trying, we've played every venue in the city from the Butterfly and Pig to the Barrowlands, have done instore sets at Urban Outfitters, received loads of plugs and plays on XFM (RIP) and played every West Coast festival we get the chance to.....sigh. Fear thee not for this story ends well (I wouldn't write a blog that made Mondays worse, honest) as the Tut's show was off the hook and it was like playing back in our home town. A massive, massive thanks to all those who came along and made the night (my 406th show with the band) one to truly remember. A big shout out to Paul from Jager for letting half of us crash at his (and drink most of his beer), The DF concerts crew and Pam for once again lending us her lovely Jeep.

If you haven't heard the 'Meanies' I would advise stopping whatever yer doing right now and checking em out www.myspace.com/meaniesmusic. 'Sunday Driver' is my favorite tune

Oh in the latest Iain Banks book 'Dead Air' there's a conversation about the East / West divide being down to something to do with the English when they tried to invade. Anyone know owt about this? I'm of Irish / Italian heritage so unlikely to be offended but no being racist please, just the facts. .

Happy Monday

L x



* I really should stop taking so many drugs