No Weddings and Two Funerals

The Little Explorer, one of Derby's finest bands, played an emotional last-ever gig last night at Derby's newest venue, The Royal. The first gig that I ever saw in Derby featured pre-explorer band Steel Keep as the first support, and hence they were the first ever band I saw in this city, nearly 8 years ago. It's very sad to see them go, especially with no real plans for their recorded-but-unreleased second album.

Twinkie are following suit and disbanding after their gig at The Royal on July 4th, which is just as sad. They've been going for about a hundred years, and we played our very first gig with them in July 2003, and then went on to release our first album on Moo's label.

Sad times for Derby bands, but at least they're going out with a bang!

Meanwhile, we continue our part-time assault on the Midlands by arranging babysitters and playing at that same venue on July 3rd with Nottingham's easy-to-google rock animals Swound! - I think this is our first gig together and our first time in a sexy new venue, so it should be good fun!

We've also been back into the studio to work on some new songs, with a view to releasing some kind of EP or single in the near future... Updates on this will hopefully come soon!
Tom on 06.08.08 @ 04:29 AM GMT [link]