Does this blog even work anymore. Who knows?
Anyway creativity has been coming at us like a cat in a washing machine as of late. It’s been an age since we’ve last updated and it’s been itful. While it’s true we’ve only played one or two gigs on the songwriting front we’ve moved forward in huge strides.
Sharp Knives: This is short and poppy andf we ever got signed would be a contender along with Russia for a single. It used to have some pretentious lyrics about the Russian revolution, but they were clumsy and ruined the song. I finally got over myself and made it about an argument me and Chris had. We played it live at Battle of the Bands and it got a nice reaction. Think it’s going to be our set openener for the forseable future.
Face the Morning: We wrote this in February and quite frankly it’s the best thing we’ve ever written. It’s a real album real album centrepiece track. It’s built around a wicked riff and has a proper chorus. Me and Dom are really staring to gel on the harmonising front. The songs about my quarter life crisis it critiques my lack of ambition or ability to even get out of bed some mornings. I honestly only felt i could writeabout it after i sorted my life out.
The Orchard: It’s based on a Nick riff and it’s basically complete we just need to sort out the breakdown. It’s very much in the same reign as Sequoia only it uses all the tricks we’ve learnt in the last two and a half years. Lyrically it’s about the Garden of Eden.. That came as a flash of imspiration. I’d really wanted it to be called the Orchard but had no idea on a theme. Inspiration came when I came up with the line “try the fruit, but is it worth the price” …
Untitled: No that’s not it’s name it’s genuinely untitled despite being almost finished. Yes I need to get off my ass and work out what it’s about. Might try and go fast in a REM “End of the World” style… Who knows how that’ll turn out.
Aliens: It started out fast and sludgy like a lot of stuff we did, but Nick suggested we went Ska with it. It’s certainly interesting and I like it just because it’s something a bit different. I used a 7th chord as well :-O!!!! Time will tell if we keep it or not. Lyrically it’s a bit silly, being about aliens. I think it’s endearing. Came up with the idea after Danny told me his old band was called 2000 Lights.
Severed Intent: No that’s not a mistake. This was originally written in 2006 just after Dog in a Garden, but got shelved so it’s another tentative one. We tried it yesterday and it sounded good and why not? How can having anothe slowly in our repetoire ever be a bad thing.
So that’s it. A storm of creativity means we’ve almost written more songs in the last six months than we wrote in the last year. We have a gig on sunday at the Actress and Bishop. Lots of new stuff to play so hopefully it’ll be good.
Face the Morning
James Furs


