Tracklisting
1. Dead End (lyrics by Chris Finucane)
2. No Rest (lyrics by Niall O'Sullivan)
3. Drink Up and Move On (lyrics by Chris Finucane)
4. Blunt (lyrics by Niall O'Sullivan)
5. Cobwebs (lyrics by Niall O'Sullivan)
6. Mistake (lyrics by Chris Finucane and Niall O'Sullivan)
7. Lay it on the Line (lyrics by Niall O'Sullivan)
8. Hug the Government
9. No. 1 (lyrics by Niall O'Sullivan)

Personnel
Niall O'Sullivan - Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica and grunting
Chris Finucane - Guitar, Vocals, Ukulele, taping everything to the carpet
Alan Foran - Bass, Vocals, Mixing, Finger Clicking and being Spud's apprentice
Will Prendergast - Drums and poking Niall with a stick
Spud Murphy - Recording, Mixing, Keyboards and Clapping

Critical Reception
"Arguably our best album." - Chris Finucane, blank.
"It's pretence in its rawest form." - Noel Daly, respected local musician.
"Raw to the point of drawing blood... Awkward, disturbing, but gripping - [Cobwebs] is controlled and haunting... Blank have a lot of potential." - Darren Byrne, culch.ie
( Full review on http://www.culch.ie/2009/08/05/iamab... )
"At the end of the day, the bass makes it for me." - Alan Foran, illicit

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It's all looking a bit quiet on the gigs front for the rest of the month, so we came up with an idea.
Since our YouTube page is looking pretty bare at the moment, we're gonna record an acoustic set and stick it up.
It might be better if we have a small number of people there to set an atmosphere, so I just wana find out if anybody would be interested in coming to see us record it. It would probably be someone's house in the Tarbert or Listowel area.
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Day One
Monday, June 8th
Late enough start today. Spent three hours setting up equipment, then Spud and Alan arrived and we found out there was a pretty serious problem with the mixing desk. But after about an hour or so we decided to just run the drums on one channel. So, Will and Spud got working on the drum sound being perfect, and Me, Niall and Alan went to town for food.
Two hours later, and we had two drum tracks down.

Day Two
Tuesday, June 9th
Bit of a disaster today.. Got one drum track and one bass track down.

Day Three
Wednesday, June 10th
Back on track! No Niall today, but we got loads done. Lay it on the Line is 90% finished. Got two more drum tracks down, and wrote a bitching ska-style bass line for Punch the Government. Coulda done with another hour or so, but it's all good. Also, got Need For Speed Undercover 14% completed
Bring on day four.

Day Four
Thursday, June 11th
Lay it on the Line is now instrumentally finished. Drum track down for No Rest, finally. Bass tracks down for Number 1, Blunt and Punch the Government. Two drum tracks left to do, and then we're getting very close Need for Speed Undercover: 36% completed.

Day Five
Friday, June 12th
Drum tracks finished! Thank dear sweet fuck! One guitar track down for Punch the Government, bass finished on Mistake. Hopefully we'll be done recording by Sunday evening!
Need for Speed Undercover: 52% completed.

Day Six
Saturday, June 13th
Bass tracks finished, drum tracks finished, four guitar tracks left for Niall to do, and seven guitar tracks left for Chris to do. Vocals need to be done too, but thats mainly it!


Day Seven
Sunday, June 14th
Niall's guitar tracks finished, drums still finished, bass still finished Chris has three guitar tracks left to do, and then it's on to vocals. Everything is sounding great Really looking forward to hearing everyone's opinions on it, because we are very proud of it at the moment!

Day Eight
Monday, June 15th
Nearly there. So close to being there. Chris' guitar tracks all finished today, ukulele track down, new song written and guitar tracks down! Dead End is nearly mixed, so is Punch the Government. Going to Tralee tomorrow to do vocals, and then we are done!

Day Nine
Tuesday, June 16th
Early start this morning, but it paid off. STILL not finished, but we have loads of vocals down, and a fair bit of mixing too. Niall's vocals are sounding AMAZING, but Chris' still need a bit of work. I know we've said this before, but we should be finished tomorrow Actually, we NEED to be finished by three o clock tomorrow.


Day Ten
Wendesday, June 17th
Done! Fucking done! At last! Tracks being uploaded onto Bebo Saturday