Eish. Have you seen these? They are called Highland Cows - they are the coolest mammal you are ever likely to meet. We asked one of them where they get their rock n roll hair cuts but we couldnt understand their accents so gave up.

Back from a long trip to Scotland.
So we packed up into our brand new van (sponsored by Cuervo and 1Time and partly the Fresh Drive Show on 5FM - thank you guys very VERY much) and shlepped across the country to the land of the Scots. What a mad beautiful city. We arrived a little late there (its about 800km) and had to immediately set up and get playing as soon as possible.

The venue wasn't full enough to warrant an 8 hour trip and we were playing in quite an obscure venue called the Octopus Diamond, so we went out to the streets to encourage people to come in for free and waived the cover charge. That seemed to have worked and we had a great little crowd. There were a bunch of Kiwi's in the audience who went OFF!!! I mean really off! They thought we were the greatest band since Sliced Bread! They kept getting on the stage to have photos taken with the band WHILE WE WERE PLAYING! All quite crazy but in the end we had a great response and sold a bunch of CD's too so we were happy.

Jane and I were exhausted and went to bed. Nathan went off to his mate's house and Andrew and Marc went out and got themselves PICKLED! This was obvious by the fact that we were all sleeping in the same room in the Highland Cow BnB (coincidentally) and at about 3:30am Andrew got up to take a piss. In the room. Next to where we were sleeping. On the floor. Instead of using the toilet in the next room. When asked "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?" - we got the very calm slurred reply ... "im taking a piss."

The next day was spent chillin in Scotland and it's a really beautiful and amazing city. The ruins and castles and churches are mind blowing, the place is steeped in incredible History and monuments and galleries. Obviously we ignored all of this and found a really cool £1 store which rocked my world. You can buy anything for £1! So i bought a huge box of Jaffa Cakes and a DVD on how to do magic tricks each for £1! Brilliant!

That evening we did an amazing photo shoot in and around Scotland - ill post photos when i get them! It was FREeeeeEEzing but I think we got some amazing shots.

Then yesterday we finally arrived in Heartfordshire for a gig at Doctors Tonic. We arrived there 2 hours late for the soundcheck and noone had phoned to let them know and they were pissed at us. They had already booked a replacement band and said we couldn't play. After much pursuasion, he said we could play only for half an hour at the end and for half the money! We agreed.

3 really great bands played and then we went on and did a short but really punchy set! I think we impressed the pants off of them! People we really suprised by this rock band from Africa! I dont think they could believe there were rock bands in Africa! People got down and gots their rocks off. The owner loved us at the end and invited us back any time!

So now back in London, we are shooting a music video this afternoon. Feeling strong and good. You know it's strange being in another part of the world playing to people who have never heard your music and in most cases, never even heard of the band. Its a good test of our mettle. And we are feeling particularly inspired at the moment because we were feeling nervous about how people would respond to us here with all of the other international bands playing in and around the city at the same times as us. You really have to put up a good fight! We were wondering if we were good enough to be here. But judging from the reactions so far, it's looking good. As one really huge English football-loving Guinness drinking drunkard said on his way out of our gig "That was'nt soooo bad"

Love ya!
jon