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So once again I have been lazy and haven’t written a blog in a long time. It seems like so much stuff has happened as well. I’ll run through it in somewhat chronological order:

Finished the album: That’s right! Finally after around 12 months of writing, recording, mastering and many drinks later, we have finished our 2nd album. The album will be “Self Titled”, mainly because we couldn’t all agree on a title, but it does represent a new beginning for the band. Not only in musical direction but also because this is the first record we have all had equal input. Last time most of the record was written before Garth and Cam joined the band, however this time round we were all part of the writing process for every song! The record is still scheduled for a March 2009 release and we have just tee’d up Joe Whyte to do the illustrations for the album. We used Joe on the Pavour Nocturnus EP and he has done heaps of amazing art since then, including all the Boys Of Summer tour posters, so we are stoked that he is back on board. The final track listing for the album is as follows:

1.    Addicted
2.    Fighting For Our Lives
3.    Armageddonouttahere (previously az16)
4.    Death From Above
5.    My Love
6.    Coming Home
7.    I Never Wanted This
8.    This Is Who We Are
9.    Stay With Me (previously rock ballad)
10.    Miss Heartbreaker

New single out: So most of you would have heard the new single ‘Addicted’ on our myspace by now. It’ll be out via iTunes on Saturday 8th of November and it has just been added to Triple J. We are happy with the response so far, with most people having something positive to say. We realise that it is a bit different to our previous stuff but I believe it is still rocking and uncompromised. I hate hearing all those fucks that say we’ve sold out etc (I know I’ve touched on this before) cause we didn’t write this album for you or for radio or anyone else, we wrote it for ourselves. If everyone knew how much money we personal make from the band you wouldn’t be saying shit. But anyway. Enough of that.

Addicted Tour: We finally announced our first headline tour for this year. We can’t wait to get back out and play hour long sets and get to see all of our friends again. It’s been way too long but it’ll be worth the wait. If you haven’t seen the dates yet here they are:

SATURDAY 1 NOVEMBER - HA’PENNY BRIDGE, GEELONG (18+)
MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER – GERSHWIN ROOM @ ESPY HOTEL, MELBOURNE
FRIDAY 7 NOVEMBER – COOLANGATTA HOTEL, GOLD COAST (18+)
SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER – THE RED ROOM, BRISBANE (LIC/AA)
SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER – EMPIRE CHURCH THEATRE, TOOWOOMBA (LIC/AA)
WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER – TRANSIT BAR, CANBERRA (FREE: 18+)
THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER – CHILLI LOUNGE, WYONG (18+)
FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER – HUNTER VALLEY BREWERY, MAITLAND (18+)
SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER – MANNING BAR, SYDNEY (LIC/AA)
FRIDAY 21 NOVEMBER – FOWLERS LIVE, ADELAIDE (LIC/AA)
SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER – CIVIC AND ARTS CENTRE, MILLICENT (AA)

There will be an under 18 show in Melbourne announced very soon. Also I’ve been receiving a fair few messages asking when will we be playing in Tassie and WA again and unfortunately it just can’t happen this year. It’s not because we don’t want to or that we don’t have time to, it’s that there aren’t enough venues available in November and December to meet the heavy touring demand at the moment. There is so much going on touring wise in Australia at the moment it is hard to get in anywhere!! However we will be back touring our album next year and we will be going everywhere possible!

For those of you able to come to the shows here is our setlist which we believe has something for everyone!

Shakedown
Game Of Life
Sometimes Forever Means Never
Addicted
The Bonesmen
The Art Of War
You’ve had your Chance
Fighting For Our Lives
-Secret Cover Song-
Death From Above
Empty Promises
Sorry Doesn’t Cut It
Bullets For Blood
Miss Heartbreaker

There are also a couple other surprises that you can’t miss.

Addicted film clip: So on Sunday we shot the first clip for the album. The idea was just to have a cool party clip at this abandoned mansion in St Kilda. We invited a bunch of friends down, put on a bbq and drank a whole lot of booze. As usual I may have drank a little too much but I guess that happens when you start drinking vodka at 9am and continuing through till about 8pm. I just hope I don’t look too drunk in the final cut of the clip hahah. We should have the clip up early next week providing everything goes to plan!

So I guess that is about it…..I will do some kind of tour diary thing while I’m away, but considering I am placing a drinking ban on myself it will in no way resemble Kelly’s tour diary, which is unfortunate.