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Well, here we are.

The day after throwing together five new songs, all done acoustically, none of which I can remember !!

Gradually getting over the nightmare of playing at Great Doddington and a double booked 85th Birthday Party - think they wanted something louder and heavier !! :-)), I have had an e-mail this morning asking us to go over to New York next summer to feature and play live on a radio station there. Now I wonder whether we should push for a re-booking at Dodderingtown or play New York - tough one that !!

Hello all - I know I am inconsistent and a bit crappy at doing blogs but thought I would write this afternon to say how pleased I am with the final version of the CD. Yeh! Am looking forward to being able to get it out to people and to seeing what people think. A huge thankyou to Steve for all the hours of engineering, to Keith at Fairview for the final mastering, to David for doing the copies and to Pete for realising our ideas for the design and his excellent contributions.

It wasn't Fairview Studios, but House number 43 where the activity was today.   Our website designer was hard at work, helping us to add a Paypal facility to our site.  Could only look on in amazement as the pages of coding went on and on - a bit like the endings to some of our songs (on occasion)!  Coding doesn't really turn me on but experimenting with colours and manipulating unearthly images for our new album cover does.

Just back from Fairview Studios near Hull where I have sat with owner Keith Herd mastering the new Amplifires CD - Fire on the Moon - and it sounds good. Keith has worked with musicians like The Housemartins and Beuatiful South (glad I got them out of the way as I think they are shit!), Mick Ronson, David Bowie, Def Leppard, Robert Palmer, Maddy Prior, The Glitter Band, the Toy Dolls, Sisters of Mercy and loads more (including a post Sensational Alex Harvey, producing and mixing his posthumously released final album - and now its The Amplifires!

1.   Turn off overhead mic after use to avoid flat batteries for next performance.

2.   Fully tighten screws on upright cymbal stand to avoid cymbal flopping over onto snare mid-song.

3.   Give up on using voice microphone as the boom arm of stand will only end up coming down and severing right arm.

4.   Bring bikini top in case venue cannot turn off the radiators.

5.   Come back again to the George & Dragon in Belper because the audience are great.   And so we will .... in April.  C u there! 

Hello all,

Especially all the people who saw us at the Nottingham Beer festival - all 500 of you! Yes, there were that many there so have a look at our snaps and see if you are in the crowd shots. A few technical problems have plagued us over the last few gigs, usually to do with power supply which has the potential to make the sound system a bit unpredictable - you ask the organisers what power they have (we need at least a 32 amp supply) and they puff and bluster and say - "yes, its 32 amp" - we never spot the fingers crossed behind their backs.

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We are playing at the Nottingham Beer festival in the Nottingham Castle grounds TODAY!  

Nottingham Castle is the heart and soul of the city and it's a great honour to be playing at a venue that is steeped in so much history.  We'll be playing where the final showdown between the hero outlaw Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham took place.  We'll be in the vicinity of dungeons that confined Kind David of Scotland for 11 years and ghostly tunnels that were used to enter the castle to arrest Queen Isobel's lover, Mortimer.