Seabellies

Splendid

2010-08-05T21:13:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! It’s been quite a hectic few weeks in camp Belly gearing up for the release of our debut album By Limbo Lake.

Check out part 3 of our video diary to get some glimpses into the recording of the album. Stay tuned for more of these, we love making them and hope you enjoy watching!

Trans Ending will be available on iTunes on the 6th of August - check out the stills below from the film clip which was shot last week. (Caravans, rain…sounds like splendour!)

By Limbo Lake Tour

That’s right, it’s time to head back out on the road with our soon to be released album. We love touring, it’s the best part of the whole puzzle, and we can’t wait to get back on (or in) the wagon!! (quite literally too, we have a band wagon…)

Tour dates SOON!

Splendour

As mentioned, Steph, Eddie and myself (Sean) were lucky enough to head up to Splendour over the weekend.

Aside from the first day when heavy rain threatened to wash our tents away the weather was indeed splendid, here are some of our highlights:

- Yeasayer: Amazing set, closed with ambling alp. One of the most unique bands floating around.
- Foals – Mad dash from yeasayer ment me and Ed missed half the set, but the mix-up was jumping mad by the time we got there.
- Eddie’s caravan: think Dr. Parnassus but more puppets and sausages.
- Broken Social Scene: What can I say, new stuff was brilliant, Kevin Drew’s final quote before busting into the final burst of Meet me in the basement “I know you’ve got an election coming up…make sure your country sounds like this…..”. If only it could!
- Mei Goreng noodles….mmmm
- Midlake (especially the drummer’s insanely amazing builds/breaks in every time permutation under the sun!!)
- The baby with the earmuffs….starting em out early cant hurt right??
- The general lack of dickheads, maybe they went south for the winter….
- The Pixies stand and deliver ‘cause our songs are so damn good we don’t have try too much’ style.
- Florence and the Machine…..what - a - voice!!!!
- John Steel Singers and Jonathen Boulet – great aussie bands representing in style, two killer sets that had people talking….
- people loosing their thongs in the mud.

Despite the missed flights home (due to one hell of a delay) it was all worth it, very inspiring, till next time!

By Limbo Lake Video Diary Part 3

2010-08-02T22:45:00.000-07:00

on set

2010-08-01T02:53:00.000-07:00

hey all

so everyone stuck it out in the rain & mud & lots of freezing & shaking went on for the actors who toughed it out in a caravan filled to the brim with water... (our good friend Johnny Carr was ace)..

here's some stills from the day, all a bit of the same shot but you'll get an idea! have a look-see...click on the images for full size view.. k

PS - Sean, Ed and Steph are at splendour, might see some updates pop up from their weekend away... I however saw band of horses at enmore this week & personally one of my fav live bands to see. There's just something so special about them... other than their great music of course!...and jonsi tomorrow night will cap off my two splendour sideshows, ant and T will head to broken social scene on wednesday.. au revoir

By Limbo Lake Video Diary 2

2010-07-26T00:03:00.000-07:00

we give you.. 'By Limbo Lake'

2010-07-22T06:13:00.000-07:00

Seabellies | By Limbo Lake

Released August 20, 2010

1. Ices (Death & Love)
2. Orange x
3. Paper Flames
4. Young Cubs
5. Board The Apartment Up
6. Sparks
7. 2571
8. Armour
9. Trans Ending
10. Sleepwell
11. Feel It Leave
12. Smokestar

trans ending

2010-07-21T21:08:00.000-07:00

our new single & lead in to the album release is trans ending!! it got it's first air time this week & we're feeling really good about this track.. it's been a live fav of ours (& hopefully yours) for a while now..

here's some stills from the promo video being shot very soooooon... enjoy the sneak peek

Limbo Studio Diary Part One

2010-07-16T17:20:00.000-07:00

swan dive

2010-07-15T08:39:00.001-07:00

if you've already seen too much old spice ads, ignore.. if not, indulge... k

new news

2010-07-14T00:51:00.000-07:00

evening,

things have picked up at a rapid pace for us all lately!

First & foremost, it's been stated previously but our ALBUM RELEASE DATE IS AUGUST 20, 2010!!!!!

sorry to 'shout' haha but we are over the moon that we're almost a month away from giving the world our baby, our debut..
'By Limbo Lake' was recorded by Wayne Conolly in Sydney of May/June of last year & ever since we have been eager to release & now will be in stores out through Albert Music - who we are forever grateful to.

Videos, a new single, album art & much much more will be coming your way in the coming weeks, as well as the announcement of our album tour!

As of today we also got word that our latest single 'Young Cubs" was chosen as Single of the Week on itunes Australia!! To grab the free download follow this link..AVAILABLE FOR THE REST OF THIS WEEK -> YOUNG CUBS - ITUNES - SOTW

Other than that we're practicing a fair bit, ie in an hours time, and Trent's just got back from Europe so we're all extremely jealous & a few shades lighter than him..

talk soon internet! k

one in europe, five in winter

2010-06-13T19:42:00.000-07:00

hey all, just a quick update for ye.. Trent's currently in Italy and Germany for the remainder of June so we're all just writing some new material before his return and we'll scoot off to a country house somewhere to make songs of them in July!

We have an official release date for our album 'By Limbo Lake' - AUGUST 20! Put that in your little black book..

Antony and I stayed up last night to watch the socceroos at the world cup and boy was it not worth it. Very glad now I ditched the idea of wearing the shirt and scarf combo. And right now I've just recalled I wrote a song on the piano at about 3am which I'd better go and salvage now before it goes missing in time..

I shall leave you with this video of the ultimate cheer up chimpanzee.. au revoir, kg.

an east coast parade, quick call ups & groups of young animals

2010-05-13T19:22:00.000-07:00

So first and foremost our video for Young Cubs was just released.. It's an exclusive through myspace
Young Cubs

Seabellies | MySpace Music Videos"> but is also now avaialable to watch on youtube so I'll just post both the links and get on with it..

I've been waiting on all iphone members of the band to give me pictures from our reecent tour with Parades. Slowly I've got a few pictures, but still missing many! So i'll likely add some over time..

The tour was great, our first Sydney show had been our first show for 2010 after our 'warm-up' gig bit the dust due to weather..

So we'd rehearsed our hearts out and it felt great to finally play, as did Wollongong and Newcastle. Newcastle was great to have all our fav faces out on a Sunday night - we owe you all a nice cheap Friday night show soon! Promise. The tour stretched out over 3 weeks and also hit Melbourne and Brisbane, with Brisbane bringing the most damn enthusatic crowd..sound was up there with the worst thing since justin beiber (that's right!) but this was due to the installation of a new desk that day..cough

Parades are awesome to tour with..great people. We're all big fans and recommend their music to you all, please go listen to them - HERE!!!!! - it was a pleasure, and we all had a big picnic to say our farewells before we took off for adelaide for our own show ->

and a cat with a nub for a tail

I am missing a whole bunch of our time in Adelaide, but it was the best time we'd had there yet.. spent the day at the vineyards, I've sourced a random pic from our very own Kelleher for the moment.. but more with our stupid faces to come

then we got a call up to play a corporate gig in Alice Springs for the Leading Edge Music conference... a nice intimate setting under the stars. heres some pics of red dirt, and here's a random youtube clip of trans/ending from that set.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOK-gd1AiEo ..you can book us for for weddings on 1800 HI MUM..

So now we're just finalising artwork for our album 'By Limbo Lake' - release date will hopefully be with you soon.. and us!!!!! So please, if you haven't already, go back to the top and view the video for 'Young Cubs'..I'll just add, no, the young cubs lyrics aren't about war games - yes, I've been asked.

Have a happy May 14th. K

When Giants Walked the Earth

2010-03-11T02:30:00.000-08:00

The title is misleading! I've just finished reading the Led Zeppelin biography from Mick Wall, hence the title. Some shit went down back then! Good read, I really recommend it. But I also recommend skipping through the bits in italics sometimes..Then again, what do I know!

Last week we had the pleasure of playing an intimate little set inside Albert Studios to celebrate our publishing deal with the world famous label. It's truly an honour! We had a great night drinking & laughing away & showcased some album tracks that has us all pumped up - before we'd even signed off Maree at Albert who is taking care of us got both 'Orange X' + 'Young Cubs' on rotation at Triple J, so our many thanks go out to her. It feels good to have a dedicated bunch of people (who genuinly love our music) behind us. Feels like home.

Also, we got a little off course with the drinking & decided we'd use the photo booth without realising it was a completely non-fictional teleportation device Alberts have. nb-looks like an old conan o'brien skit

Speaking of the Young Cubs & Past Lives tour, the poster is in the post below + in the middle of this tour (the 26th March to be exact) we're releasing our tracks 'Young Cubs' & 'Armour' on itunes Australia. They are up on the myspace now for your listening pleasure, & both are from the album 'By Limbo Lake' due out in May - OFFICIAL DATE COMING SOON.

Last but not least, Musicoz has announced us in their Top 5 for the alternate song category. The winners are announced on March 26th as well at an award ceremony held in Sydney. For tickets to the event go here. If you're lucky enough you might be able to get your mug on the TV as the awards are on MTV two weeks post-awards.

Here's a band that are quite an odd mix of people that i've been listening to -> Singer of Mew, Bassist of Coldplay, Guitarist of A-Ha and producer extraordinaire.. They are called Apparatjik & I've posted their song 'Snow Crystals'. If you love Mew like I do, then consider it very much worth your attention.

Below that is a Kings of Leon shred.. you've all seen the 'shreds' from st sanders surely? If not, go here! He basically dubs what you see on screen & makes them look hilariously awful, all the while being extremely talented himself to make it look so good.. this Kings of Leon shred is killer, especially as it was the show they were frustrated with the 'icy' crowd. However, I do love KOL's stuff (albums 1-3) so in the very far off chance they see me re-posting it, I apologise & please feel free to beat my brother Trent up as payback.

Enjoy...kg

March/April tour poster

2010-03-11T02:28:00.000-08:00

Young Cubs & Past Lives Tour + New Music ! ! !

2010-02-16T01:37:00.000-08:00

Good eve to you all. We are excited to announce our March/April Tour with Parades on the following dates... & please make your way over to our myspace to hear our new single 'Young Cubs' accompanied by another album track, 'Armour'. Both will be available on itunes on March 26th!

It reads like this..

Two of the bright young things of the Australian independent music scene, Parades & the Seabellies, are preparing to stake their claim on 2010 by announcing a co-headline tour. To coincide with important new music by each band, The Young Cubs & Past Lives Tour will introduce music from their debut album releases to Australian audiences for the first time in March/April.

Thursday 18th March - Oxford Art Factory, Sydney - $12 pre sale / $15 on the door.
*Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au, Moshtix Outlets, or phone 1300 438 849 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 1300 438 849 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

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Friday 19th March - Grand Hotel, Wollongong - $10 Pre sale / $12 on the door.
*Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au, Moshtix Outlets, or phone 1300 438 849

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Sunday 21st March - Northern Star, Newcastle - $12 pre sale / $15 on the door.
*Tickets available from www.bigtix.com.au and the venue.

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Saturday 27th March - John Curtin Hotel, Melbourne - $10 pre sale / $15 on the door.
*Tickets available from Oztix www.oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545

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Thursday 1st April - The Cubby Hole, Brisbane - $10 pre sale / $12 on the door.
*Tickets available from Oztix www.oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545

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Saturday 3rd April - Plus One, Adelaide - Only The Seabellies
*Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au, Moshtix Outlets, or phone 1300 438 849

Get your gig boots on..

when all was quiet on the belly front

2010-01-08T16:28:00.000-08:00

well hello & happy new year

we've been rested up over summer & will not be playing until february mostly due to our fav key-tarist antony breaking his hand. but the good news is I have a tan!

we'll be shooting a new clip soon for the next single being released in January & once everyones heard it we'll come show you all how we do it live.. it was a toss up between one of our most loved & energetic live songs that we've been playing now since 2007!! holy mother of dog, how am I not sick of it yet! and probably a more obvious single choice with its punchy beat and nice big chorus that has our distinct sound.. you'll get to hear them both over the coming months, but the single will come first followed by the album soonishhh after.

in other good news I've used summer to not only read a whole lot of books (angels & demons most recently, now to see what mr ron howard has done to it in film form) but also write new material, & its great to be fruitful & varied in the writing process at the moment. I feel a more focused direction & excitement after playing a majority of the tracks on the album for a few years now. We're already 10 songs deep into a list of new songs & just have to give most of them a proper demo.

so when all seems quiet, it's actually not! we're about 5 seconds away from smacking you in the face with our second single from 'by limbo lake'. a very gentle slap that we hope you enjoy & fills the rest of your summer soundtrack.

much love

kg

night vacations

2009-12-01T17:43:00.000-08:00

night vacations

dreams never end...new order
the cedar room...doves
mad as hell...luke vibert
since i left you...the avalanches
am 180...grandaddy
stay (faraway, so close)...u2
moonchild...m83
sing...blur
island, IS...volcano choir
midget submarines...swell maps
idioteque...radiohead
8 ball...underworld
godless...dandy warhols
an ending (ascent)...brian eno

listen here

k

update 101

2009-11-02T05:36:00.000-08:00

so a few things have been kicking into gear lately (yup, cos i'm a heaps big 'car' kinda guy) and it's getting exciting again! orange has been getting great play on the j's and the finishing touches on the clip are being done as I speak and will hopefully be with you soon.. and next friday night we are going on tour to support it with the eulogies (from z USA) and so it will be our first proper run of shows for the year and hopefully non-stop after that..

we've today been nominated in the shortlist for the vanda and young songwriting competition for feel it leave.. niiice.. other things are happening behind the scenes and i must for now keep them in my little black book of secrets and stalking notes.

had an interesting but very enjoyable set at bathurst the other night too.. played close to 90 minutes which we hardly ever do seeing as our catalogue doesn't stretch that far!! but the people at charles sturt uni were celebrating and were very accomodating and also very drunk. a few of us had to go, a few of us got to stay.. i was one of them that stayed & I am now convinced, even though I was considerably out of it on free alcohol, that we need to update our rider requests.. (2 beers each, wine, water, soft drink).. but that's a story for another time.

kg out of here.

orange x tour posta

2009-10-28T06:30:00.000-07:00

heres something that goes around the net to advertise the tour..

meeting mr branson

2009-10-27T00:38:00.000-07:00

A few weeks back we did a short set with the villians of wilhelm and dappled cities to celebrate the opening of the new virgin mobile metro in sydney.. mr richard branson was in the country to pick up one of his many toys, I think a yacht, and I am mega jealous of him as I'm sure we all are. If I could fly into a country and say 'I'm just here to pick up my luxury yacht' I would be so happy - yes, I reference south park reguarly -

anyhoo, off topic again here, back to the videos of the night posted on moshcam.. I'm gonna post a couple of the songs as they're from our debut LP due out Jan-Feb 2010 titled 'By Limbo Lake'.. yes it has a meaning, but not now, i'll explain later ..and yes, all hick-ups and mistakes are intentional, expect the record to be full of them! k

Here's trans/ending & paper flames for all those interested in what sort of a record we've been making..

Eulogies Tour Announced

2009-10-06T22:11:00.000-07:00

Dates for our November east coast tour with the fantastic Eulogies from the US have been announced. Eulogies have been getting plenty of spins on the j's of late and we can't wait to tour with them. The dates are as follows..

11 Nov 2009
Beach Road Hotel w/ Eulogies (US)
Bondi, New South Wales

13 Nov 2009
East Brunswick Club w/ Eulogies (US)
Melbourne, Victoria

14 Nov 2009
Transit Bar w/ Eulogies (US)
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

15 Nov 2009
Troubadour w/ Eulogies (US)
Brisbane, Queensland

18 Nov 2009
Oxford Arts Factory w/ Eulogies (US)
Sydney, New South Wales

19 Nov 2009
Brass Monkey w/ Eulogies (US)
Cronulla, New South Wales

20 Nov 2009
Newcastle Leagues Club w/ Eulogies (US)
Newcastle, New South Wales

Will be great to tour on our new songs from our album due out February 2010. Hope to see you there!

kg

all things orange

2009-09-16T01:26:00.000-07:00

Orange x has arrived!! and for us it is such a releif (and damned exciting) to be putting out the first taste of our album! We've all been working hard touring the last few years that we finally got the chance to sit down in the studio and made something physical for you all! Speaking of physical copies, here's the orange x art (not HQ-Sorry)..RIGHT CLICK TO SAVE FULL COVER OR FOLLOW LINK TO PREVIEW FULL COVER!

So keep listening out for news about the album, and maybe bits and pieces of music popping up here and there in between. For now, we hope you enjoy orange x
k-belli
post script: please be our best friend and jump on triple j and vote for orange x! requires A name (I reccommend hercules), email and request! 30 seconds tops! thaaaankksss

orange x is here

2009-09-07T23:35:00.000-07:00

good news huh!!? the new single 'orange x' is now alive and breathing on our myspace. go and listen to it, hope you enjoy. more info to follow in the coming days/weeks about where we're at in the seabellies camp, but this just the start. we've got a record to follow! head here to listen/read up - triple j's home and hosed.. spread the news.. kg

homecoming

2009-07-17T06:59:00.000-07:00

I am sitting here, listening to one of our oldest songs realise itself finally.....ahhhh smokestar, you are dear to me.....and you sound fucking beautiful.....can't wait for you all to hear it.
Tomorrow we play in good old Newcastle, for the first time since december....wow, that feels really strange to have not played in our hometown for so long.....what arseholes we are....

tomorrow we will lavish our new babies upon the institution that is the cambridge....

gonna destroy the place.....if you come we can do it together.....blow the roof right off it....

so we are almost halfway through mixing....by this time next week our toils will be over and our debut album will be done. I can't wait....

"follow the water all the way down to the border, know that you and i are never growing old...."

nighty night.......TRENT. xo.

afterthought: maybe it is not too late too change our name to Powerful Creatures.....once the album is out it WILL be too late.....will sleep on it....

when you were young

2009-07-16T23:16:00.000-07:00

or should i say when we were young.. this is in 2007 (maybe may?) after we won the garage 2 V comp where we took many a napkins and trent even slowly crept on stage during the soulwax set.. that's what we do best
click me!
kg

mixing.

2009-07-15T08:19:00.000-07:00

.so we here at seablliiii HQ are in the process of having our tracks mixed by mr wayne conolly.

.trent is down at albert studios each night with him and the rest of us are here in newcastle - we get a track sent each night/early morning and make sure all is well. which it is!

.so far 3 songs with some single potential have been (almost) completed, they're sounding great. and because we used a lot of our own instruments and amps it sounds like us, which feels good.

.we've got our first newcastle show of the YEAR! coming up this weekend. can't believe it's been this long between shows, but we did however spend 2 years on the road with no real breaks trying to slut our music around. and now we're more eager than ever to play the album live.

.i just emptied out my mobile phone pictures and found some old pics from one of our tours last year. i think these snaps are from perth somewhere if i recall correctly...

.well, the track came through and sounds pretty fant-funking-tastickkkkk. and no, no pun intended with funk. goodnight to you all, all one of you reading this! don't let the bed raptors bite. kg
..i also forgot how cool this inside pic from our EP was..

the percussionist

2009-06-20T00:21:00.000-07:00

just found this video online. it's got a few seabellies in it. it was the winning film of the shoot out Newcastle 2006.. enjoy.. k

and spot the seabelliii in this clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUif1Xzaze4

strings, horns and a tamourine

2009-06-19T17:54:00.000-07:00

well today I absolutely have no thinking power. i got next to no sleep all week and today we have strings in the morning, horns in the evening and hopefully some tambo to fill out the songs. it's all coming together now so big smiles yeah
that's todays update, like i said, brain no work today. here video. bye!

what we've been up to

2009-06-16T23:41:00.000-07:00

so we're getting close now. under a week now i think! we've today only implemented the system that I (kg) come in earlier than trent and do some g-tars and then once he comes in he's all rested up and belts out a vocal.. like young cubs so far today. spot on. awesome. good job! that brings me to what i've been watching to keep my spirits up, tim and eric awesome show, great job! segway of a lifetime. here's a crazy skit from it..

WHERE'S MY SON??!! ha. crazy, i know. but hilarious yeah?
that's my update for today. the good thing about blogs is it can be personal ramblings and no-one can criticise it! bbbbyyyeee
k

lucky number 13

2009-06-09T23:11:00.000-07:00

so we're into day 13 of the recording process here at Albert studios in neutral bay sydney. today songs are starting to round out as the last few days we've been adding guitar layers, percussion, more drums, yes, more. vocals for a song or two have been underway and trent is laying down a take now so it's great to have things all coming together..

such as artwork too. and the album name. although both work in progress, they both feel right and suit the album to us..

today it's just me (kg), and trent. sean came in yesterday for overdubs, ed the days before with bass, and now it's guitars until the end of the week when steph and ant will lay down some keys and some more group stuff like clapping the f**k out of some tracks, and tambo. yeah.

we've been here everyday with wayne 'the con man' connolly who is producing the album. he likes to do a lot of improv such as one liners about 'the square people'. you had to be there, no really, you had to be. and engineering is reyne who was once the proud ruler of the fusball table, but has since fallen in defeats to most of us. i know i beat him. beat him good.

so i'm gonna get back to watching some conchords now, until next time

we are here

2009-05-26T19:56:00.000-07:00

we're in the studio for 3 weeks of recording.. we're all excited to get our sounds down so this week will be full on..
here's the epic 3 part journey of the seabellies some have described as deceivingly awful (in america).. hope you enjoy getting to know us..

Studio #2 - date date date

2009-05-13T21:42:00.000-07:00

just to keep you wonderful people in the loop, the dates for recording have been adjusted a couple of times lately so stay tuned for when we're in the studio so I can give you updates from there.. should be soon.. otherwise i can lie to you and pretend we're there now if you're bored? lemme know

Feel It Leave

2009-05-04T08:59:00.000-07:00

This is the clip for Feel It Leave.. It was mostly shot on tour in the US on our hand held, and a large portion of stage footage was shot by our (I'm gonna call him sidekick) good friend Grant Campbell..you will see him close to the end of this clip (although you may mistake him for Billy Corgan).. and we hope you enjoy..

Record: Update 1

2009-05-03T19:57:00.000-07:00

One last show now before we prep every song in our list for the album. There's so much creativity coming out of us at the moment that i feel like we'll end up demoing a new album whilst in studio. Alberts has a backroom that we'll definately be using in our spare time to a) sleep in b) do external work c) artwork for the album d) record a batch of demos and e) isolation room.

But this thursday we play a sold out show with Okkervil River which will be awesome to be alongside them, and we'll chuck in a few of the new ones for the sake of guaging the crowds response!

And finally, i'm putting out a dub challenge to the rest of the band.. Via youtube, I'm going to ask those interested in the 'bellies to post a dubbed video from any movie and see if they can get the most hits online.. whether this comes to fruition is another thing!

I'm off to try and find an old casio sound on a new roland and hoping it sound good. We need it for one of our new songs..

Clips 2

2009-05-03T19:43:00.000-07:00

And to follow our videos go to this link http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSeabellies

We'll be making more vids nowadays, like in studio, random, basically anything that is deemed to be of/has some entertainment value.

These are the previous clips for 'Heart Heart Heart Out' and 'Prairie'. 'Feel It leave' was done but again a lot more time has passed than anticipated before it came to life. Once it gets the okay from everyone I'll put it up!

Probably the most tiring film clip ever made.. running around the watagan mountains and losing muscle capabilities the following day is always something you should stretch for.

Clips

2009-05-03T19:37:00.000-07:00

This is a clip put together by Ben Randall of our track 'Song We Don't Speak Of' from the 2007 EP 'Wave Your Fingers To Make The Winters'. It's an awesome clip that we should have put up ages ago, but it seems we always take months to get videos living online.. well not anymore!

Album time!

2009-04-14T23:51:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my first blog. Nice to meet you too.

We are currently between Sydney and Newcastle to piece together our debut album. Our track listing will have to be cut down from close to 20 songs so far from material we have been working on from as far back as 2006 until as close as a month ago! Demos for the album are almost done so it'll be pretty exciting to know what songs we're looking at..

This all commences in May so i'll be reguarly updating on what happens each day

Sleep easy, Kg.