Just a quick post to let you know 2 things… number 1 is that we are going to be showcasing two new tunes at the Sugarhill Festival on Saturday this week. We’re really excited about these tunes as we definitely feel that they’re the best material we’ve written so far! So, make sure you’re around the Shuffle Stage on Saturday at 14:40 (that’s 2:40 in the afternoon for those 24-hour-clock-a-phobes ;p ) to hear the debut of “Bloodstream” and “Only To Fail”.
Secondly, I’ve added some new photos - well, some old photos at times - but photos that we had neglected to upload for one reason or another… so make sure you go and check out the pics now!
We found out a couple of days ago that unfortunately, we’re no longer going to be playing at the Welsh National Motorbike Show next weekend.
Apparently, the Dyfed-Powys Police decided that the risk of “Violence between Rival Biker Gangs” (you can read into that the Hells Angels and Outlaws) was too great and as a result, the show’s organisers have had their license revoked one week before the show was due to start.
Well, I have a personal message to the ‘authorities’ and that’s basically, “You’re full of it!”. I have attended the Welsh National Motorcycle Show (being a ‘biker’ myself) for 6 of the last 7 years, and I can honestly say that I have never seen a single incident of violence of any kind there. Despite everyone enjoying copious amounts of alcohol (and whatever recreationals might take their fancy). All I have ever experienced at this wonderful annual event is friendliness, a genuine family atmosphere and a lot of fun.
Steve Bennett, the show’s organiser is quite rightly considering legal action against these bureaucrats as his company, Welsh Motorcycle Shows Ltd (which organises the event) were not included in the discussions and were only told after a decision had been made. Hardly a free country then…
In my personal opinion, you’ve got more chance of being the victim of violence, or even witnessing violence of any kind, in any major UK town or city every single weekend evening as the pubs kick out than you have at a bike show and what really riles me, is that the decision ‘appears’ to have been made on the back of a single incident at the Bulldog Bash last year (which is actually run by and for Hells Angels apparently) and yet that event’s license for this year does not appear to be in jeopardy at all - so where’s the consistency.
We would like to offer our support to Mr Bennett and Welsh Motorcycle Shows Ltd and if there is anything that we can do to aid them in their legal action then we will gladly stand up and be counted.
Anyway - we look forward to the next time we get an opportunity to do a show for them as they’re all a great bunch of guys and gals and we love them all!
If you want to read more about this story, here’s some links from around the web:
And a couple of stories about the completely ridiculous (and contradictory) decision about the Bulldog Bash being allowed to go ahead - remember that this is the event that preceded a murder of a biker, by a rival gang, on a British motorway:
We’ve just gone through two major changes to the site. Number one was moving to a new hosting service and number two was updating the underlying ‘engine’ of the site, the marvelous WordPress. Neither process was without it’s issues, but we appear to be up and running on new servers with an upgraded backend… although not perfectly…
As a result, we seem to be having a few minor issues with pages not loading or Server Errors appearing. If this happens to you, simply reload/refresh the page and you should be ok. Not sure why it’s happening at the moment, but I’ll be investigating over the coming couple of days.
Watch this space for further enhancements - such as an all new look, more info, more music the list goes on.
As a teaser, I’ve uploaded a preview of what the site ‘might’ look like… (it’s still being worked on). Please feel free to comment on it.
Don’t forget - it’s an INCREDIBLE VALUE FOR MONEY night. The ticket’s are only costing ?Ǭ£3 - that’s ?Ǭ£1/band - and the beer’s only ?Ǭ£1.50 a pint. Now you can’t say better than that!
That was a LOT of fun - I think I can safely say that we all had a great laugh.
Just wanted to say a big thanks to Jim & Steve at Brunel FM for having us on and we’re looking forward to coming back and seeing you again soon.
If you missed the show, those very nice men at Brunel FM have sent us what’s going to be in tomorrows podcast so that we can post it here for you. So have a listen now
We’re going to Neath in South Wales to do a gig to help raise money for Families with a child or young adult between 14 & 21 who require any form of wheelchair. (full details here)
The event is being put together by Nik “Dolphin” Royale, a resident of Neath, at The Windsor Club, Windsor Road, Neath on 6th December.
Nik is in a wheelchair himself and being a father, understands the unique challenges that families in a similar position face. Nik suffers from a rare form of Cerebral Palsy called Progressive Cerebral Palsy that over the last 4 years has seen him lose almost all of the use of his legs and is causing greater and greater problems with one of his arms.
We met Nik when we played in Angelesy in the Summer, where he was marshalling and struck up a friendship with him. So when he asked if we’d help support his fund-raiser we jumped at the chance.
Tickets are ?Ǭ£5 each and available from The Windsor Club, Windsor Road, Neath or directly from Nik by emailing dolphin2603@hotmail.co.uk
Donations are welcome if you can’t make the gig itself (or if you just want to give a little more) by contacting Nik at the email address above.
Well, we came second in the competition being run by GWR FM (our local radion station - or one of them) and we lost to a local band called Otoko - which apparently means “men” or “guys” in Japanese I believe (bit of useless information there…).
Anyway - I digress. Lee & I popped along to The Vic tonight to check them out and I managed to capture this video of them. There’s a couple of songs here. All I will say is it’s not the performance The Knott would have given!
The first song I didn’t catch the title of but the second was called “Black Sheep”
Ladiess & Gentlemen.. for your entertainment, Otoko…
Those wonderful people at Puttyfoot Promotions have kindly asked us to come back to the Swindon Town Football Club Winners Lounge to appear in their regularly scheduled Thursday night gigs.
You’ll notice that it’s also pre-loaded with all 5 tracks that we recorded yesterday. We’re really pleased with the end results although there have been mutterings of some ‘further tweaks’ but please, leave us your feedback and let us know what YOU think. After all, yours are the only truly objective ears as you haven’t been involved in the creation of these tracks ;p.
We’re hoping to have some CDs pressed and ready for sale on 12th July at our gig at Riff’s Bar but it may be 20th July before we get it together - we’ll have to see how we do…
Update 9 July 2007
We’re definitely going to have a few CDs available on Thursday but unfortunately, not the full, final pressing. As a result, these CDs are going to be much reduced from the price of the CDs on sale in the very near future. See upcoming Release information for further details.
Update 15 July 2007
Unfortunately, further delays with the pressing process mean that we’re not going to have the final CDs in time for our gig this Friday at Big Fish so the official release date has been put back to 28th July. Just in time to coincide with our first festival appearance at the Festival On The Green (which I’ve just realised - ISN’T LISTED ON THE SITE!!! Jeez, I’m lax! Will have to get that sorted today!
