post-tour glow

so i have spent the last 5 hours replying to emails and doing all that crap that you have to do when you have been away from your computer for 2 weeks.
i guess, i just would like to thank all those who came down to shows for the full band tour, the bands we played with, wild dogs in winter, a boat to row, the whole Off The Cuff and Sausage Fest line up, tangled hair, suffer like G did, the people that put us on, and let us live in their homes for a while. it was a blast. none of it would have been possible without kirk ondryland, kev/nev/BSM, ellis from gravid hands/shiftworks studios, nitkowski, and of course, james palehorse, alex nitkowski and oli, little and reuben talons. youre all legends.
an avalanche of photos will follow over the next few days.
album number 5 is under way, the lyric book is coming closer to being finished.
Amateurs have nearly finished writing their first album, and are off on tour with Crooked Mountain, Crooked Sea. here are the dates:

august
13 - bar one - derby
14 - the well - leeds
15 - the new tavern - scarborough
17 - the old blue last - london
18 - the mothers ruin - bristol
19 - hectors house - brighton

Bermuda Ern has also nearly finished writing the album, should be in the studio by the end of the year.

Vietwow! has its first show at morton stanley festival in redditch on the 22nd august, and there is a release towards the end of the year.

moving to birmingham in october, where i have plans to start a new band, right excited.
ta