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16.6.2008

frankly, a little disappointed at the half baked hostility we received at download this year. we expected a tsunami of full, caps on, glass beer bottles and all we got was some shockingly inaccurate attempts at destaging me and they weren't even constant. only one bottle hit me. one! even that was a deflection off the monitor and it only grazed my shin. what's a guy gotta do to get a little concussed at britain's primary rock shindig? the best attempt was a bottle of tango (piss poor drink). i hear some people got nailed by milk shake and ice cream? i envy you.

as ever, our preparation for festival times was a bit slack, at best. upon our arrival saturday afternoon, we had no tent pitched and no real motivation to do that. consequently i ended up borrowing a hotel room floor from (thanks danielle!). sunday night was less fruitful and i spent it in the back of a renault clio. they look bigger than they are, and they don't look big. good times.

either way, thanks to all of you for coming up the hill to see us. we had epic fun all weekend. there were several thousand people more than we expected and our stage was a little under 1600 miles away from the rest of the festival, so that was a promising result. put the damn festival back on the track like last year. all that's left to say about the festival is the drinks were very free, fearne cotton kicked my ass at guitar hero and lostprophets played the set of their lives. seriously killed it.

we're filming the video for 'saturday' on monday. i'm rather excited. this one is set to be better than the last. it involves time travel (it's not back to the future) and i'm just gonna leave it at that.

so i've been listening to TLC and for some bizarre reason, my grey matter seems to have retained - verbatim, no less - the entire rap section that lefteye (rip) spits/spat in waterfalls. i've got some serious chops as a rapper and sometimes i feel like i'm wasting my ghetto-potensh by singing and not getting my hip hop on. shame i can't remember how to count or succeed at trigonometry. meh.

if any of you folks are around london (water rats) next tuesday and are intererested or into iain's side project, dirty leaves, are playing there. i'm going. you should go.

we've just had some sweet plans for the rest of the year fed to us. i can't divulge too much right now, but we'll definitely be doing another tour of these parts at the end of the year (including places we didn't play last time and other places we've never been before). we'll be leaving the country also and hitting up some our european neighbours for some foreign frolics. weeee.

keep your ears to the wall, folks. oh yeah, our merch is now online so go on over to our store and spend some bones on all our new merch.

oots

xxx
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