Sorry I’ve not been around for a while! It’s been a busy time as we’ve been preparing for a number of live concerts – all designed to tighten the band and prepare for a live DVD we’re shooting pre festival season 2010.

The next pre-tour concert is detailed below;

We’ve had some great fun sourcing lazer lights, bubble machines etc! We’ve also been working on creating new visual landscapes to play from our giant screens. All designed to take us all on a trip to Utopia for a couple of hours!

Also been working on some new pieces. They’ve come together very quickly. We’ll be playing a couple of these at the Rainbow on 7th November. It’ll be a laid back affair with much in the way of experimentation. All fun.

Hope to see you there,

David.

Just about recovered from the Festival of Light held at the weekend. All in all a success. People learnt to dowse, visited the Yew (two Shamanic drummers sat underneath her to provide some great atmosphere). Lynne and Miriam from the hamlet of Hope Bagot recited poetry, Elaine and Jan provided local cheese and cider to the troops. We raised a modest but useful amount for charity.

Suzanne Thomas produced an amazing nature mosiac under the Yew which you can see below.

UtopiaXO provided the music (with crazy lazer lights, strobes and video backdrop).

This was really a ‘friendly’ warm up gig to practice our new material. Lots of mistakes made (Dave almost falling over – nothing to do with the cider)  – but all in all a great experience.

We hoped to video the event but there just wasn’t time to set it up – the technical side of things being more challenging than first thought. So we’re presently arranging a venue in which to hold a live event at which we can focus upon video production. Should be ready before the end of the year so watch this space!

Thanks to everyone who came.

David.