The Day I Went Deaf (and blind drunk)

So people. Here we are. A new EP. Get yir lugs roon it. The Day I Went Deaf is out on 24^th October and we’re having a launch party on the 21^st at Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh so be there or… don’t – how’s that for a threat? After which we will be embarking on the usual ramshackle debacle around the country playing in murky basements, sleeping in questionable establishments and no doubt standing in the pitch black in Nowheresville (population 9) awaiting rescue from roadside support for Dorothy (our van) to be once more dragged back from the River Styx…

 Cannae wait.

 Last week we filmed a new video for The Day I Went Deaf over 3 nights with the magnificent Alan McLaughlin and Marta Saint Tokarz. This involved having to learn to mime the song 4 times slower than it originally was – taking 7 minutes per verse - while standing on an island of pavement in Glasgow city centre at rush hour. Oh yeah – and there was a storm too. Veronika, in comparison, filmed her parts in glorious sunshine on top of the St James Centre multi-storey in Edinburgh. And the rest of the band did OK except that nobody has ever played the song yet so they had to learn their parts before they could mime them… So we’re all kinda interested to see how that turns out.

Me and Scruff Lee also got tae play at Hampden last week wi that beatboxing behemoth: Bigg Taj. Not at football – we display the combined footballing prowess of a drunk in concrete shoes – but for the new SPL Music Box youth music project being delivered by the Scottish Premier League Trust at all 12 SPL clubs. We played a beatbox/ acoustic guitar/ rap jam of The Day I Went Deaf and we’ll be uploading some other Bigg Taj collaborations in the near future. You can see some footage from BBC Alba here.

Then we played at Edinburgh University Freshers Ball which was bananas as expected. Here’s a wee secret. For 2 years we have been submitting the following rider:

48 bottles of beer

1 bottle of vodka

1bottle of Jack Daniels

An assortment of soft drinks

Clean towels

For 2 years we generally receive the following:

A few beers

No vodka

No Jack Daniels

A bottle of water

No towels

So imagine our delight when on Saturday, courtesy of Edinburgh Uni, we received the ENTIRE RIDER - thanks Rae! The Jack Daniels is for Thilo (a German who doesn’t drink beer) but he had to leave early so on the one occasion when he got something he could actually drink, we drank it. On a side note, as observed by Admack – 

‘If Carlsberg did riders it would be Tiger Beer’.

So next up is Kaleidoscope Festival on the 1^st October in St Andrews. See yehs there for what seems to be a never-ending festival season.

 Oh yeah –

get yir tickets for The Day I Went Deaf Launch Party at Liquid Rooms right noo!

Peace, Yelt and Gaun Yirsels,

Solareye