What a week it has been. Firstly, all at Farrah would like to congratulate Arsey Mike and his lovely wife Nicola, on the birth of Poppy. She popped into the world at a bouncing 9 pounds 1 ounce. The whole family are over the moon and doing well. Nothing new for Nicola having to look after a helpless drooling child!

On the very same day as Poppy arrived, so did Farrah's new bassist Michelle, who auditioned over the telephone and was poached from marvellous Sydney based power-popsters Montana. Farrah persuaded her to trade antipodean sunshine for tube strikes and drizzle!

Rehearsals have started in earnest for Michelle's debut at the Barfly acoustic club (see gigs page for details)