So firstly we must apologise profusely for the lack of Internet type blogging which has taken place over the last few months. There is no excuse for our ineptness and general apathetic attitude. The truth is we were suffering from a crisis of confidence...I mean who actually wants to read about what we do anyway. But apparently Andrew does. So this one's for him...

To be honest it has been so long we can barely remember what we have even been doing in the past four months in much detail. And as much as we'd like to put that down to our crrrrazeee rock and roll antics, we're actually quite lame just have issues with memory/attention span etc. I think there may have been some kind of epic jaunt along the East and West coast of America, and were sure we recorded some kind of record type thing, and maybe we went to Japan twice but we can't be sure. We may have dreamt that.

But first things first, here is some information about what we are up to next, as it is best to live in the future rather then dwell of the dwindling past. We have this lovely tour coming up with the mighty No Age and the wonderful Times New Viking, it is called "Shred Yr Face" and in no way does it promote mindless body mutilation. We're just all for the metaphorical shredding of faces with the hot licks and riffs of swirly guitars. Anyway we are playing a variety of dates which are on our myspace and this here website, and it would be lovely to see some of you people there, to see what you think of the new songs...which we know none of you have been naughty and downloaded..... because if you have I will give each and every one of you a spank of the bottom. (That's from Ellen by the way...we'll probably have a separate queue at the gigs just for all those people that turn up to get their bottom spanked by her.)

Back the past, we did this month long tour around the North of The America land and briefly went up to the majesty of Canada, and we did it all with a tour bus and a driver called James. The first thing to note about the tour bus was the width of the aisle, the ceilings on the mirrors and satellite TV. It was a fading rock legends dream. This made the bus orgies we had much more satisfying, practical and stimulating. It also made us able to watch Tila Tequila obsessively and introduce our support band Parenthetical Girls to UK life via The Antiques Road show. I think we also managed to watch that Lindsey Lohan film about being lucky/unlucky 3 times in total...it just kept getting better, who knew McFly were such talented actors?!

The first half of the tour was with Jeffrey Lewis and The Jitters consisting of Dave, Helen and his brother. They were talented, intelligent, lovely and amazing to watch each night and they even joined us on a day off in Michigan for a Cook Out at our tour manager Joe's house. Cook Out is basically a barbeque except it sounds better. In fact everything always seemed just that little bit better when Joe was around...we think he won best tour manager at last year's Academy Awards (a category often overlooked, much akin to best sound editing)

(at the beach after the Cook Out)

We played some new and interesting places such as Minneapolis (in DinkyTown!), Detroit (at a rock and bowl club...where a wedding was being held downstairs) and DC. We then went back to some familiar territory in New York, where we also got to step outside of Manhattan and explore New Jersey and Brooklyn. We also got to reignite the odd love affair we have with Wholefoods, and rue the fact it is yet advanced upon British shores.....

(Minneapolis)

(before the show at Music Hall of Williamsburg)

Ellen: I also got to spend