You Animals

hello! hope yr all well and good…

I HAVE to start updating this more often, thats a new years resolution right there…it’s not through laziness, i just get lost in a bloody maze of usernames and email addresses and passwords for myspace/facebook/youtube/this thing etc and it gives me a huge dull ache in the head!!

We animals have already been keeping our heads busy in the 27 days this year has coughed up so far. We recorded a batch of new songs at Snug Studio in derby with lords rob and rich which we’re well pleased with…i’m going in again on friday to finish some singing bits and possibley chuck beach boys style harmonies over EVERYTHING if the others will let me…we love that place, if you’re in a band go and record there. The only new song with a final-decided-upon title is called ’Western Bridge’ its beautiful ….dumb working titles for the others include ‘That James Bond One’, ’Ner ner ner ner’ and  ’Jangle Boogie’ …i secretly think a couple of those are keepers though ;)

We’re gonna start trying to book lots of shows and we’re forever making plans and scheming…we’ve recorded what we wholeheartedly intend to be our first single and it sounds mega! we’re really pleased with it. We recorded it in a place near Birmingham called Magic Garden Studios with a lovely man called Gavin Monaghan. Another lovely studio with lots of old and expensive analogue recording machinery and things that make crazy noises and famous speakers and stuff like that…im putting together a new video diary at the mo and there’s a few clips for anyone interested in that kind of thing!

We all went to Paris for a few days over christmas and we did a show at Le Fleche d’Or which was incredible, never been to paris before and it was a treat. They gave us pasta and chicken and lots of wine and were the perfect hosts. All did the usual christmassy stuff back in blighty like getting ill and bad hangovers and eating lots…went to the same old place on new years eve but it was real good fun!

We’ve got new t-shirts that we’re going to selling at shows….they are perfect! one is a giant cat monster with lazer eyes that Liza drew and there is a logo one that we designed too….i’ll try and put a pic up but again, my skills are lacking. We’ll try and sort out a way you can buy them online too…maybe through a paypal/myspace/email type scenario.

buying things on ebay is a big part of all of our lives at the moment.

RIGHT i’m off to take pictures of t-shirts!

laterz,  r y a n x x x