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Hello Everyone..

Without doubt the last couple of weeks have been the most exciting for Archangel. I can assure you that treats are coming your way. A double 'A' side single with videos for each by pretty much the hottest young British director, a tour to come and frankly the most fun I've had in ages..

Today I was filming part of one of the videos, which involved being strapped to a dentist's chair with post-it notes coming out of my mouth all in stop frame animation. Going to the dentist is bad enough but having one's mouth wedged open for several hours whilst someone points a huge camera at you and someone else stuffs your face full of animated pieces of paper borders on, at least at the time I felt, a reasonably long spell at the 'Scrubs.

This very same director for the other video, just two weeks ago (during all that snow and ice), attached an enourmous bodyrig with a huge camera to my torso and got me to lip sync without snapping my spine.

Don't get me wrong because I am not complaining. Yesterday I saw some rushes of both videos and was truly astonished by the footage. The guy is a genius.

Anyway, very soon, we'll be putting up the new videos and announcing some dates. I am thrilled by some of the comments that have been left here recently. Thank you for listening and taking the time. I hope that you enjoy what we're preparing for you for the next few months...

N.xxx

Ok so erratic though I have been about this blog, at least I am consistent...

Last month I took the plunge and went to Guatemala off the back of one of the most bonkers and beautiful treatments for a video you're ever likely to read and filmed the promo for the song How To Lose Your Best Friend (the title track of my long player).

The experience was indescribable. Enough said.

The video will be hitting your screens, TV and Computer alike with any luck, in the next couple of weeks and I hope you enjoy it (nearly) as much as I did going there to make it...

You may have heard the song on the radio a bit and on the telly as a goal scoring underscore just yesterday.. Amazing what you can achieve with two hands and a piano and anyone that's prepared to listen.

So thank you, I hope to see you at a show soon, watch out for an inconsistent bloke in a video made in one of the most glorious countries on the planet and lots of luv,


Nick. x

Thanks to Sean @ Rock Sellout for this!

"Archangel, a.k.a. Nick Webber, has been in my CD pile for some time now. The only reason I haven't written about him is that it's so good I couldn't stop listening long enough to say something smart about him. I still don't have anything smart to say, but I do have something honest to say - this is pretty great.

The first few times I listened to 'How To Lose Your Best Friend', I couldn't help but feel it was like hearing Chris Corner (IAMX) fronting the Foo Fighters (the track's melody is eerily reminiscent of 'Everlong'). That might not seem too harmonious on paper, but in application it works really well. Of course, that's just the one track. He has 5 others streaming on his Myspace page, all of which you should definitely check out.

Nick may very well be the next Tom Vek - a one-man force of nature that's so good at what he does you'd never know that there weren't 20 more hands behind the mixing board. Here's to hoping he won't disappear like Tom and that we get a lot more like this!"

http://rocksellout.com/2008/11/27/ar...