Monday news....
...sadly, has been postponed until Friday
Hang tight though, all good, promise
Has it been nearly 6 months....
....since we last conversed ?
As the picture shows, we are ashamed, and beg for your forgiveness
Now that is out the way, lets get caught up ? How's things your side ? Hopefully still enjoying life as much as you possibly can ? We will catch up more and more during this year, it is a promise. Here is a wee snippet of what we have been doing
So since the previous blog, we played 3 amazing shows in October (Bathgate, Inverness & King Tuts, Glasgow) that really book marked our amazing 2015 quite beautifully. The last gig at King Tuts blew our minds and crowd was certainly the best we have played to in there My Baby and The River, along with ourselves shook the foundations and got the old girl boogeying more than she had for a while - still heard her creaking as we were packing up ha ha
From then, we have dedicated ourselves to our studio and ensuring that relationship turned into a very fruitful experience. Very happy to say we now have 5 brand new tracks demo-ed and ready to hit the recording for next album. We also are on such a creative burst just now the rest of the album is writing itself, with more and more tracks pouring out almost every week. We have threatened to use our own recording facility for a couple of years and now can say we have turned into studio junkies...very, very addictive. We are aiming to have these first batch recorded during next 2 months at studio of our choice with top class engineer twindling the knobs (oo-er misses).
So, to try and wean ourselves out of the studio we are pleased to say we have TWO gigs we can announce
- Saturday 14th May - Cerberus, Bell St, Dundee DD1 1HF
- Saturday 4th June - Dreadnought, 14-16 King St, Bathgate EH48 1AX
Both of these gigs will be a huge blast to play. Dundee, we just love and has always been up for every gig we have ever played. Bit of a smaller venue, however we could not turn down the offer from a good friend to come and play for him, WE CANNOT WAIT.
Bathgate, is going to be a VERY BUSY NIGHT. That date is Bathgate Galaday, and if anything like our last couple of gigs it will be a frigging belter of a night.
Supports for both gig will be announced over next couple of weeks, and more details for each to come as well all of which will be on our events page.
Also, unfortunately we have had to delay our BIG NEWS until Monday, but believe me when I say it will be worth the wait.
Thank you for staying with us on social media (facebook & twitter) over the past few barren months on the interweb, promise we have so much more to be sharing with you this year...going to be another HUGE ONE.
Oh, and if anyone is in Glasgow tonight at ABC, come say hello as we all get down with a truly special cat, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Keep it Dixie y'all
Summer...done...October going to be 3 amazing nights
What a summer we have had...2 very lucky guys right here...we have got to tour everywhere from just over 3 hours drive away near Preston to around 6 hours drive to Thurso. We have played some brand new places, sold loads of cd's, made a lot of new friends, and fallen in love with the small festival scene throughout the UK.
Without a doubt Beat-Herder festival (with around 15,000 there) was an amazing experience, but I cannot say enough good things about Jocktoberfest (with only 1000 there). We headlined the second stage on the second night that was the perfect setting to get the place bouncing along to our deep and dirty blues rock. We had a flamingo crowd surfing, people humping the stage with others humping the first and second humpers (yup it was a sort of human caterpillar thing, brilliant image ha ha ha), we had the loudest cheer that forced the stage manager to allow us to do just 'one more extra' tune that was an off the cuff cover we hadn't prepared, 'Have Love Will Travel' (by Richard Berry, The Sonics, The Black keys are only a couple of others who have covered it).
We will defo be on the look out for as many festivals as we can for 2016, and hopefully much more of these will be right up our street.
As we are about to enter in Autumn here in Scotland, we have just three more shows booked for 2015, with the plan to hibernate to our music den to experiment recording differing techniques before hitting a studio early next year for hopefully album number 3. Who knows though we may just pop up here or there with a guerilla gig at short notice, so please keep checking back here (facebook or twitter) for news.
The ROctober gigs are going to be in three of our favourite venues throughout Scotland. 100% pure music venues and the scenes of some amazing Dixie Fried nights before.
- Sat. 10th Dreadnought, Bathgate
- Sat. 17th Mad Hatters, Inverness
- Fri. 30th King Tuts, Glasgow
Details for each gig is on our events page (click here) but these are going to be crackers for sure.
Bathgate is to support a local charity, with all door money going 100% to charity. Looking like it will be very close to a sell out. Get in touch to secure tickets or take a chance and turn up very early just to get in (around 7pm)
Inverness, what can we say about Inverness. Feels like a second home to us this year and cannot wait to get back up yet again. After Jocktoberfest at the Black Isle Brewery the messages of support and people bringing their friends to this night, yes it is going to be very very busy.
Glasgow, its a Friday night gig at King Tuts...I mean what more do you have to say. I have seen many a band at King Tuts over the years, and Friday nights are always party night. It is going to be a belter as ourselves and The River are supporting My Baby - a Dutch 3 piece whose video's show me we are going to be the perfect match of a night. And you can still get a few VERY cheap tickets on the event page.
Keep it Dixie Fried
Aberdeen details
*disclaimer - we know the image is not from Grampian, we just liked it*
Our next shows will be a couple of FREE ENTRY shows in Aberdeen, Scotland (not Aberdeen, Washington as the thumbnail for this shows ha ha ha) as part of the GRANITE CITY SESSIONS being run by Belhaven Brewery
We will be playing two shows on Saturday 19th September at The Globe Inn and The Holburn
(full details for each available on our events page here)
Time to get Dixie Fried our Doric speaking friends