Nonstop Gigs. Love it.
Hi everyone, Sorry it’s been soooo long, but I’ve been so busy with the band, The Hedrons. We’ve been playing non-stop and organizing release dates for our singles and album. Our first single ‘Be My Friend’, will be released on July 3rd, download and 7in single. (you’ll be able to buy it on line at measuredrecords.com). We’ve also just been confirmed to play at the UK’s Download Festival in June (downloadfestival.co.uk); we’re all really excited!!! Hopefully more festivals will be confirmed soon. We’ve been working hard on our MySpace site and have almost 19,000 friends, yeehaa!!!! If anyone wants to download some free live tracks, if you sign up to our mailing list at thehedrons.com you be able to do so, go on… and let me know what you think of them.
I’ve been out and about at a few gigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh. We were on the same bill as a band called ‘Uncle John and Whitelock’ at Glasgow School of Art. They were fantastic. We also played with an Edinburgh band called ‘Common Redstarts’, at the Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh, they were fantastic. We’ve played with them before; they get better all the time. Another Glasgow band to look out for are ‘The Apple Scruffs’, we played a gig with them back in March and they were great, good old rock n roll. My friends ‘Cosmic Rough Riders’ are getting ready to release their new album here in the UK. I’ve had a sneak preview of it, and it sounds fantastic, they’re fans will not be disappointed!! What a mad couple of days we’ve had!!!! We went down to London and played a few songs at the Gibson guitar showroom, what a scream! At the end of the set I chucked the sound guys mic so hard on the floor, I think I broke it! I then jumped into the audience while playing the end of ‘I Need You’. I was expecting Chi to come and join me, but she through her bass on the floor and started thrashing Soup’s cymbals – I thought Soup was going to thrash her! Chi then jumped into the audience and through Soup’s drumsticks into the crowd. Her and I nearly ended up in a cat-fight… again, one of these day’s it will probably end up quite ugly… we love each other really. A guy in the audience came up to us afterwards to let us know one of the drum sticks ended up in his shoe… hehehehehe… at least it didn’t end up any where else… that’s what he gets for standing so close to the stage. We ended up hanging out with some really good people after the show, thanks for the laughs, fags and beers and everything else … hopefully we’ll see you all when we’re back in London playing at the Metro on Monday 15th May. Next day we had a photo shoot… I could’ve seen that far enough having had a bit of a late one the night before. Funny how black sambuca seems like a great idea at the time… and funny how every time we have breakfast at the Columbia Hotel we can never quite remember it… mmmmmm. I think it was good though? We were in full face and clothes by 11am and on location in a very glamorous, tiny, smelly toilet at the back of a London pub … just what we’re used to really. We dotted about London for a few hours at various different places, getting changed on the move in the bus, I think Mark, who was driving us, had a good time anyway, don’t think he’s ever seen as many naked women in the one place at the same time. Our last location was hilarious!!!!! We went to the living quarters of a Camden bar. We all climbed up these tiny narrow stairs and were shown into the most bizarre bedroom I think I’ve ever been in. The strange thing was that the person who lives in this room was still in his bed! When we eventually got him up, we were quickly ushered in and asked to sit on the bed… heheheheheh… Stains… mmmmmmm… anyway… We started shooting and the guy who’s room it was walked in with his mate, a drum kit and some guitars, started getting dressed and bid his farewells… we then nipped out to the kitchen to get changed and a door off of the hall opened. A guy was standing with just a towel wrapped around him and he said,’ Who are you, and what are you doing here? It’s The Hedrons world and we all live in it… Until next time…
Cheers , Tippi x
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