Blog post '2007 Retrospective and Thank-yous'
2007 Retrospective and Thank-yous
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2007 has been and gone, thank fuck for that!
Our last gig of the year on Christmas Eve marked exactly 18 months as an active band. Our first ever gig was at The Soundhaus on 24th June 2006, and our first gig with the new line-up was on the same stage on the 24th December 2007. It should have been our CD launch night but... yeah, anyway.
It's been a rather shit year in many ways, but we've made it through all of that and we're still going, more determined than ever. Hopefully we've got all the frustrating hard moments that bands go through out of the way for a while, it's time to start enjoying all this again!
We're very glad to see the back of last year, after starting off losing lots of money to some clown, resulting in a fair bit of stress and countless delays to our EP release - finally ready one year later, but still out before Chinese Democracy (cheers Nodge...). This pretty much put a spanner in the works which disrupted all our plans and threw everything else into uncertainty.
We also went through 4 line-up changes - Glen joining Gutworm, Simon now in digigrind upstarts Metropolis Of Dystopia, Lee composing Jazz Porn soundtracks, and Liam Thracia helping us out on bass before we finally found full-time new members with John and JD from Out For Blood! The whole set was also completely re-written twice over in the process of recovering from these changes, so we spent most of the year treading water... which was pretty frustrating!
So anyway, thanks to everyone that's stuck by us this year, given us gigs even though we might have played them as a two-piece, the people who came to watch us play even though we were playing a new set we'd only written that week, those that came to lots of our gigs even though they hate our "bad noise" (hi Emma).
Massive thanks to Liam Thracia for standing in on bass for those few gigs after Summer, which helped a lot in keeping the band going through what was probably the ultimate low-point in things going tits up!
Cheers to Scott at Ram Print for being really helpful with getting us stickers and things printed, and being completely patient with all our months of delays in actually submitting artwork! Bands - get him to print your stuff!
Delayed thanks to Matt Geaney of Stonebreaker for helping us record at the end of 2006, and putting up with us in his garage for ad hoc days over several months. We still have your microphone!
Further cheers to Kim, Pete and Spike at Big Noise for making early Sunday mornings a pleasure, and letting us off on paying for cans of coke every now and then.
Some premium lagers to Kim & The Metal Underground lot for their support and including us in their final five UK Unsigned Metal Bands of 2007, which was a nice way to end the year!
And finally some shouts and grattitude in no particular order to; Allan Mad Cow Paté, Out For Blood, Thracia, Matt Geaney (cheers for the mics!), Pete & Lynette, Maz Star @ Total Rock, Joey and the Blast-O-Ramas, The Gutter Club (RIP), Juggernaut Punch (RIP?), Hard Target, Shaping The End, The Magpyes, Steve In Tha Ground, Godsize, Glen and The Gutworms, The Download crew & The Hour Of Power, Kingsize Blues, Extreme Noise Terror, Anticulture, Stonebreaker, Seethe, Legion Of Fury (RIP), Bill Snide, Driven By Devils, Sycorax, Isaiah, Tricycle Fucking Death, and of course Colonel Sanders, The Man With No Love, and Undercut Bloke. Sorry if we forgot anyone, blame drugs and booze...
Here's to 2008!
Our last gig of the year on Christmas Eve marked exactly 18 months as an active band. Our first ever gig was at The Soundhaus on 24th June 2006, and our first gig with the new line-up was on the same stage on the 24th December 2007. It should have been our CD launch night but... yeah, anyway.
It's been a rather shit year in many ways, but we've made it through all of that and we're still going, more determined than ever. Hopefully we've got all the frustrating hard moments that bands go through out of the way for a while, it's time to start enjoying all this again!
We're very glad to see the back of last year, after starting off losing lots of money to some clown, resulting in a fair bit of stress and countless delays to our EP release - finally ready one year later, but still out before Chinese Democracy (cheers Nodge...). This pretty much put a spanner in the works which disrupted all our plans and threw everything else into uncertainty.
We also went through 4 line-up changes - Glen joining Gutworm, Simon now in digigrind upstarts Metropolis Of Dystopia, Lee composing Jazz Porn soundtracks, and Liam Thracia helping us out on bass before we finally found full-time new members with John and JD from Out For Blood! The whole set was also completely re-written twice over in the process of recovering from these changes, so we spent most of the year treading water... which was pretty frustrating!
So anyway, thanks to everyone that's stuck by us this year, given us gigs even though we might have played them as a two-piece, the people who came to watch us play even though we were playing a new set we'd only written that week, those that came to lots of our gigs even though they hate our "bad noise" (hi Emma).
Massive thanks to Liam Thracia for standing in on bass for those few gigs after Summer, which helped a lot in keeping the band going through what was probably the ultimate low-point in things going tits up!
Cheers to Scott at Ram Print for being really helpful with getting us stickers and things printed, and being completely patient with all our months of delays in actually submitting artwork! Bands - get him to print your stuff!
Delayed thanks to Matt Geaney of Stonebreaker for helping us record at the end of 2006, and putting up with us in his garage for ad hoc days over several months. We still have your microphone!
Further cheers to Kim, Pete and Spike at Big Noise for making early Sunday mornings a pleasure, and letting us off on paying for cans of coke every now and then.
Some premium lagers to Kim & The Metal Underground lot for their support and including us in their final five UK Unsigned Metal Bands of 2007, which was a nice way to end the year!
And finally some shouts and grattitude in no particular order to; Allan Mad Cow Paté, Out For Blood, Thracia, Matt Geaney (cheers for the mics!), Pete & Lynette, Maz Star @ Total Rock, Joey and the Blast-O-Ramas, The Gutter Club (RIP), Juggernaut Punch (RIP?), Hard Target, Shaping The End, The Magpyes, Steve In Tha Ground, Godsize, Glen and The Gutworms, The Download crew & The Hour Of Power, Kingsize Blues, Extreme Noise Terror, Anticulture, Stonebreaker, Seethe, Legion Of Fury (RIP), Bill Snide, Driven By Devils, Sycorax, Isaiah, Tricycle Fucking Death, and of course Colonel Sanders, The Man With No Love, and Undercut Bloke. Sorry if we forgot anyone, blame drugs and booze...
Here's to 2008!
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