"Whats new?"

Hello strangers,

Sorry Ive been away been learning the above. Very time consuming activity.

Actually we have been rather busy over recent months. I went off on me Jolly's to Cancelada, Spain for a week to sample the local cuisine and chill out a little, I even got a bit of a tan. Then it was back into the frying pan with the Tramlines festival, bit of a rush as I landed in UK at 5pm, had to drive home, have a shower, practise and then gig. Its safe to say I was shattered and went straight home after gig thus missing our gaffer and event organiser 'Mr Ohara' dancing on The Bowery bar complete with bottle of champagne, I shudder at the thought. So unfortunately for the second year running I again missed the whole of the Tramlines Festival including my personal favourites Echo and the Bunnymen. The only silver lining was getting to meet Ian 'Mac the mouth' Mcculloch in person and having a good old natter with him, we struck up a bit of rapport over the extortionate price of beer in Port Banus and generally put the world to rights for a brief period. Nice to meet a hero of mine and him not disappoint. I have been well informed by the lads that the Festival was a success and a massive improvement on last year, the city had a great vibe in the few hours I was around. Our gig was packed out and I would like to offer my apologise and thanks for the people who stuck around to watch us even though we were over an hour late going on a Sunday night. We will re-pay your faith.

Since the gig our stick smith 'Dazzler' has sodded off on his holidays this time to Rhodes, Greece and there is rumour that he might even come back with a bit of colour. Surely not. So with Dave away the other three of us have been cracking on finishing a new song. Its been a different process for us as we have constructed the song from the beat upwards and we are definately lacking the special feel our drummer gives us but it sounds very promising, usually we jam out tracks in 'the room' but this new style of writing is a very interesting prospect for the band. We will be hopefully playing this new track out live in next few months when we are back on road, we have recently booked a gig in September with, good friends and fellow Sheffielders, The Dead Sons in Preston and more dates are to be confirmed shortly.

Keep an eye on the sites and an ear to the ground for updates, new tracks to be shown soon. There is exciting times afoot so be patient with us.

I'll be back in next couple of days with some of my usual useless tat.

Speak soon.

On behalf of Mabel Love.

Mr Rice x