Trying to write songs is a bit silly. It's not like a proper artistic pursuit like sculpting a face of Jesus out of elephant dung or writing a performance poem about earth worms. Met a good friend yesterday and she'd written a list of things she had to do and things she wanted to do. The list of things she wanted to do include painting a fish (we narrowed it down to a painting of a fish) and writing her book. The list of things she had to do include sorting out her tax and payslips. Such is life's rich tapestry. We all spend a lot of our lives doing stuff we don't want to do in order to spend a little time doing what we love. Today I've been trying to write a song. A songwriter I know says it's akin to having a poo. What I wrote was crap so I guess he's right.

Went to see a friend's band called 'The Return Of The Furies' last night at The Clapham Grand. They rocked. They had some really complex and interesting arrangements and some killer riffs to boot. . The night before I went to Camden to see a mate's band. They were supported by a 5 piece rock band who'd obviously flown in from the 80s on a magic carpet. They were unselfconsciously like Def Leppard. This is both amusing and upsetting.

We got review in Mojo this month which gave us three stars (this, according to their rating system means 'good'). Although it was a positive review I didn't really understand some of it. It said we were 'quaintly and unselfconsciously out of time'. We're actually totally conscious of the fact we're 'Out of time'. Ironically if we sounded 'of the moment' we'd sound like 'Television' or 'Joy Division'. This would be impossible for us because of our fear of 16th hi hats. I'm pleased we're not flavour of the month, it hopefully means that we won't be flavour of last month either.

What I'm really amazed by is the fact that Mojo gave us a review at all. We're a tiny band on a tiny label so good on them! I think there are a couple of hundred releases each week. The other reviews we've got have been really great and we're had a bit of radio play on radio 2 as well.

It's like climbing Everest this whole small band against the music industry world. Actually it's more like carrying all our own equipment to base camp to see all the bands on bigger deals arrive in helicopters with loads of sherpas.



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The life cycle of a band. Stage one Band forms with hopes of fame, riches and artistic integrity. Band members contrasting personalities seen as ‘a good thing’ Stage two Band starts meteoric rise to success. Diferent agendas emerge. Although fractious due to long hours trapped in the bac READ...

Good lord, this Christmas excess is catching up with me. I’m in York today suffering with an immense hangover after partying til 6a.m with lots of dear friends. Every year my mate Mike who used to be the bass player in Farrah organizes a Christmas dinner. He bills it as ‘the works-do you actually wa READ...

Hello all, long time no blog. Apologies for that. What have we been up to I hear you all say? Well… We've got a new drummer for a start off. He's called Dana, he's fantastic. Mike left the band to pursue other interests and we all wish him the best with that. We've been gigging a whole bunch i READ...

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Hello everyone, we've just been on a whistle-stop trip to Spain and had a great time. First on the schedule was a Radio show on Spanish National Radio. We were invited on DJ Charlie's evening show to choose some songs to play. For an hour we had the chance to broadcast songs by everybody from Bre READ...

Hello everyone. How are you all? We've all had a hectic couple of weeks. We've been gigging in Liverpool and Madrid and we had our launch party for the record at the legendary 100 club on Oxford St. It was a fantastic night. The place was rammed with people and we played really well. It was great to READ...

I’m delighted to tell you all that we’ll be holding an exclusive album launch party in the heart of London on Wednesday June 6th. We’ll perform some songs from Cut Out And Keep and there’s even a rumour that there will be free drinks! It’s an invitation only event but if you want to come, keep y READ...

Hello everyone, although all might seem quiet, in fact we’re busy preparing for the launch of ‘Cut Out and Keep in the U.K’. I’m impressed by the amount of you who noticed that Avril Lavigne ripped us off for her new single “Girlfriend”. It shows a remarkable similarity to ‘I Wanna be Your Boyfri READ...

So here we are playing in our third continent in as many weeks. Our show was originally booked for last Friday but we were bumped off the bill because the guitarist from Midnight Oil stole our night. How Australian is that?! It’s been cool in a way, as we’ve had chance to see the best this beauti READ...

What an amazing show in Tokyo! Where do i start? Well firstly, we'd heard rumours that the show had been selling well as the tour progressed. When we got to the venue we we're blown away. Unit held a few hundred people, had had a fantastic stage and great sound and lights. We arrived at the venue t READ...

Okay, I admit it, I got pissed last night and have a mild hangover, which has been partly cured by eating noodles on the train platform. It was a late one last night and we had a great time. Nagoya is a huge industrial sprawl and home to Japan’s Toyota factory. It’s about an hour from Tokyo on t READ...

Hello again, sorry about the delay in getting these on the site. We haven’t had the internet for a couple of days. Last night we played in Osaka and had a fantastic time. Osaka is the second-largest city in Japan and has a real up-and-coming feel about it. Fast cars and cool clothes abound. It also READ...

Hello again, I’m once again writing on the bullet train. We’re on our way from Hakata to Osaka after a crazy show last night. Hakata is one of my favourite cities in Japan. If Tokyo is über-cool and Osaka has a tough upwardly mobile vibe, Hakata’s populace seem to focus on ‘having a good time, a READ...

It’s pretty amazing to be back on tour again after spending most of last year in the studio recording Cut Out And Keep. It’s like being in two different bands in a way. The studio based Farrah is quite poppy, thought out and methodical but the live show is a lot more rock and hopefully gains in atti READ...

Everyone was rocking at Image tonight! The club was great and the Telepathys and Comatose played great sets. The DJs were cool too, and we had lots of fun meeting everyone after the show. Thanks to everyone who came up and said hi!! Right, next stop Keith Flack in Hakata tomorrow night, or tonight r READ...

Hello everyone, i hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. This is a very exciting time for the band. We're finally playing some of the songs from the new record live. We played a show in London on the third and we played six songs we'd never played before. Besides me forgetting the lyrics o READ...