Hellohello!

First off, the usual round of apologies to any of you who may actually have been wondering if we were alive or dead (we are the first one in case this blog entry has not cleared that matter up). Genuinely sorry but what with various utter gubbins involving such real-world trivialities as work and such, time has been quite the precious commodity of late.

But, we have not been sitting about on our arses doing nothing, far from it!

1) A whole new www.sixpeopleaway.co.uk will shortly be live. Having spent a while earlier in the year completely re-learning webdesign to make a new more user-friendly and easily updateable site (then deciding that one was shit and spending more months making a better on), it is finally very nearly able to go live and hopefully shall do within the next week or two. It has far more features than the last and will be getting extensively used to help us keep in touch with anyone who would like to keep in touch with us.

2) Our next gig! Not really new news but a big one nonetheless. It is to be at the Glasgow Mill (Otherwise known as Oran Mor). It is next Wednesday (3rd of December) and as well as being 100% fFREE ENTRY will be being filmed and recorded! This means we shall very shortly have new live tracks (and possibly these new live tracks will be of actual NEW tracks too) to share with you all (at the new www.sixpeopleaway.co.uk of course).

If of course you would actually like to be there to get your well-timed shouted obscenities or otherwise recorded for posterity alongside our music in a live venue-type environment, by all means come along and join the fun on the night. Your support would, as always, be greatly appreciated.

Tickets can be found here:

http://www.themill-live.com/
(Just head to the Gig Guide/Tickets section)
(You can also text "MILL44" to 82500 apparently....)

It is a text-sign-up arrangement whereby you type in yer name and they send you a text which you show at the door to get in. Each ticket admits two I believe so tell your friends!

3) Last but by no means least, we aim to release our third CD this December the 29th. Featuring three recent new tracks we have already been roadtesting live for a little while. Not quite a single (as singles rarely have three tracks on em these days) or an EP (Not long enough surely?), we are nevertheless most chuffed with these tracks and are looking forward to getting them out there to be heard and finding out what you all make of them. This leaves us with a bit of a clean slate and draws a line under the songs we have been playing live this year. Having also been using the last few months to work on even newer material, it is our hope that 2009 will see the release of our first ever proper, grown-up, full-length album.


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Feel free to leave a comment or send a message or say "HI" if you have any further questions about any of the above, or anything else for that matter!

Hope you are all doing ace.

All the best!

Ali.

Hello!

Well, I think we have just about calmed down from our most highly enjoyable week of musical fun!

The BBC session was an absolute blast and whilst we were bricking it ever so slightly right before it started, everyone made us feel tremendously welcome and we ended up just having tonnes of fun playing songs and talking pish.

You can listen to the whole show here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/vicgallo... (and I would recommend that you do as it was a great show with many awesome bands getting a spin), but if you simply want to hear our bit you can head here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/player... to listen to an edited version in the session archive which is just the bits from the show what have us in them.

We played four songs and had a bit of a chat with Mr Galloway, so if you want to know how we met, where the bands name came from, and why on earth we ended up talking about a multi-headed, many-limbed 50's horror monster (not our fault as it turns out), oh, as well as hearing a brand new song, then head on over to either of the links above. The full tracklisting of songs we played was:

1) Small Fortune
2) Of Kings
3) Eve (New Song)
4) Next Time Round



You can also download Vic's Introducing Podcast here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/..., as he very kindly stuck our live session version of "Small Fortune" on it.

Let us know what you think of the new song!

All the best,

Ali

Hello everyone,

Cheers for reading!

For any of you all that may be interested, we shall be playing live on Vic Galloway's show on BBC Radio One Scotland tomorrow night (Wednesday the 14th) from 12-2AM.

If that is too far past your bedtime or you are from outside Scotland fret not as you can listen to it again for a full week from the date of broadcast here:

<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/vicgallo...">Vic Galloway on Radio One</a>

We may even be playing a brand new song...

(Ok, enough of the cryptic "maybes" in an attempt to seem interesting and faintly mysterious, we have a new song we want to play and assuming it goes well at practice tonight and we don't think we are going to tit-it-up proper on national radio and make total arses of ourselves, we shall be playing it! I say this here because this pretty much means we have to play it now unless we want to look like big wimps...)

We have new songs for playing at our upcoming shows too, so if you toddle along to our next one (Pivo Pivo, Glasgow, This Thursday, 8PM, £4 entry) you shall be treated to hearing them before anyone else EVER!

You shall also be treated to the most excellent Over The Wall (who we enjoyed playing with immensely last year and shall surely please your ears) and Suspire (who we have not played with before but we are sure are jolly nice folks worthy of your attention).

Hope you are all well!

All the best!

Ali.