3 Reasons Why We're Currently Very Excited...

1. Among Brothers are recording in a few weeks time Having played a few gigs and recorded a wealth of tracks in bedrooms, living rooms and such, we're very stoked to at long last be heading into the studio to put down some proper tracks. It's only 2 weeks until we'll be venturing into Musicbox Studios to record with Charlie Francis for 5 full days. We won't be seeing any natural light, cooking our meals together like a little family, and letting equipment related geekery reach all-time highs (i.e. finding out the exact difference in tonal qualities between a Twin, De Ville and Vibrolux). We were going to buy a cafetiere purely for the occasion, but apparently Musicbox already have one. Score. 2. We'll be announcing our second release in the VERY near future We're sure some of you probably have an inkling, but we've pretty much confirmed the details of our second release (note: it's nothing to do with the Among Brothers recording!). We'll hold off giving away the specifics just for now (again, you probably know them anyway), but we'll be announcing all the details on our blog within the next couple of weeks when we've actually had time to get our arses into gear and write a proper press release. 3. We've been asked to curate a venue at Swn Festival 2010 Seeing as we were only just starting work on our first release around the time of last year's Swn festival, we're honoured to only 12 months later have been asked to curate a venue. We went to the Swn launch on Monday night, which got us ridiculously excited about the 2010 festival (and not just because there were free nibbles and drinks on offer at the launch). Swn is going from strength to strength, and only in their fourth year, they're already expanding to become something which helps put Cardiff and its' music scene on the map. We'll be curating alongside real-life, credible record labels such as Big Scary Monsters, Moshi Moshi records and Shape, as well a wealth of other big names, local and otherwise. HUGE thanks to John and Huw for asking us, the line-up for our venue on the Thursday is coming together nicely, and we're already frantically planning how to make it something a bit special. They've got a flash new website up, go take a look. It's only 3 months away, which is enough time for us to be getting excited without panicking about things we have to get done...