Hello everyone! Steve here with a special update blog post.
The last blog back in September 2023 mentioned we are working on three new songs, well…
I am VERY pleased to announce one of those new songs, “Time”, will be released on all platforms on Friday 19th July. This will be the first new music since we released Amethyst back in 2020 so we are very excited for you to hear this. The other two singles “Memory Lane” and “Your Words” will be released at later dates.
There are going to be three different editions of “Time”:
As you can see, there are three variations of the artwork and each one will be “exlusive” to a platfom the single is bought / streamed from. The first purple cover will be available from our website and bandcamp page, the red will be on iTunes and Amazon Music and the blue will be all other streaming platforms like Spotify. The website and streaming versions of the single will also have a b-side cover, “Yesterday” by The Beatles. In May this year I decided it would be cool if each of the new songs had a cover as a b-side to make things interesting, so the other two will be revealed once release dates for each are sorted.
I'll also talk about the new songs closer to their release dates.
Where Have We Been?
Why has it taken so long for us to get going again? Well, it has been a long time since we saw last saw you, it was back when we supported One Last Day at The Acoustic Couch in Bracknell in February 2023.
This one was interesting for me because after we finished, I came off the stage feeling very disappointed with my performance. Something felt very off that night; I was on the other side of the stage (we've played at this venue several times) which felt weird to me, my amp wasn't miced up, it was plugged straight in to the desk so the volumes were all over the place when I switched channels, I felt I didn't play to the sort of standard I know I could so I was just disheartened to the point that I wanted to give up music in general, I felt I didn't have it in me to continue any more. So after that night I put the band to the side and forgot about it. I have since seen footage of various songs from the show and it was actually much better than I felt at the time.
It wasn't until a few months after the how in May or June that I started coming up with new song ideas, writing down random lyrics and hearing riffs and melodies in my head. I also went back over some old songs in our archive to rework, so that got me motivated to make plans and I told the band we were getting back to it. A mixture of refining the songs and just general life commitments meant it just took a while to get in to the studio and record all the parts.
But here we are, three new songs done and we have time booked in to get in to the rehearsal studio. It won't be long until we are back on stage doing what we do best. Until then, take care of yourselves and see you soon!