Further on and Further in

There's a buzz about the race camp this week as the 1st race baby has arrived - Maisie Faith Buchanan arrived safely on sunday evening, weighing in at 5 lb 6 oz. Everyone doing wonderfully, Maisie is beautiful.

Dan's got a couple of weeks of on paternity, so its up to me to keep the blog fires burning... The rest of us are as busy as beavers, recording B-sides (instrumental only....!) - a new song called either Mower (grae's influence) or 'Ones and pieces', which is something big G said by accident, but i thought was cute. And then possibly stabber, which we really should've renamed by now, which is a wicked song with a beautiful french horn outro... (any out there play the french horn?)

We're also planning what is turning out to be our most ambitious video to date. It'll either be an amazing Gondry-esque piece of art, or we'll have to start over. I have to make a whole world out of cardboard, love it. We're working with a director chappy called Rob Evans, and this is his passion. He's got some great ideas, and I'm very excited.

Looking forward to another hometown show on the 16th, in our favourite little sweat box, the rising sun arts centre. Its gonna be awesome. The Oakford gig was wonderful, complete with singalongers to the new songs, which is always very nice.

Catch you later bill and ted

Jess xx

#PAINT!#

Photographer Chris Harris came to take some photos of us on Monday. This one was taken in St Laurence Church in Reading whilst the church bells were being rung by the local bell ringers/peelsters(?). After an hour long session they came down to find five half naked racers wandering around covered in paint, they didn't really know what to say to that.

We shall be back playing in Reading tomorrow night for the first time in ten months, Oakford Social Club..onstage at 11pm (free entry) it shall be very special indeed.

last night.

Thanks to everyone who came down to camden last night, it felt so good to be on stage just playing again and not doing all the other stuff that comes with being a band..a big release. We now feel rehearsed up and ready to go-the new songs seem to work and we're looking forward to introducing some more next weekend in Reading. This coming week shall involve photo's/planning a video/discussions with potential new management/rehearsals and perhaps even squeezing out a precious baby (depending on who you are). It could well be life changing.

~Stake Eating and Drinking~

We had a jolly old time in Notting Hill yesterday evening with our team and some of the stakeholders, the Uxbridge Arms very kindly gave us half the pub which was decorated very tastefully with some bunting and we ate a selection of jessie made cakes to mark the occasion. It was all very fitting and civilised. There are plans to do similar perhaps in Reading as it was just so good to meet up and for everyone to feel connected in what we are trying to achieve together. It always helps with the bigger picture. We keep hearing lots of crazy stories as to where these pass it ons are popping up. Please leave us a message on the website so we keep tabs on them. These stake holder get-togethers are going to be a whole lot of fun..driving home last night I started dreaming of social committee's/jumble sales and even stake-holder weddings!! deary-me. Its all game on now for the purple turtle in camden next thursday. It can't come soon enough. 'Bring on those changes, open up those doors'.

PS//We are well over half way to our stake holder target of £25000 after just three weeks, there are still stakes available through www.inmyheaditworks.com so get involved- you shall be in very good company.

Have a nice weekend. Most of us shall be at Club Velocity in Reading tonight.

7 days left..

There is exactly one week until the stake availability finishes. Thankyou so much to those who have already requested them. Its been amazing to see so many people place their confidence in us and our music..for anyone else who may be interested the article below explains it all really well. We would love to have as many individual stake kolders involved as possible. There are plans to wet the albums head next week with the stake holders. All will be revealed on tuesday the 1st of july the day after the stakes cease to be available.

http://www.totalmusicmagazine.com/news.htm

www.inmyheaditworks.com

wowzer!!

shifty sent us through a list of stakeholders so far this afternoon, !!!wow!!!! thankyou so much to each and every one of you so far that has bought stakes..we are so pleased that firstly you agree that it is such a great idea and secondly, you have shown such belief in us and our music..we are walking a few centimetres taller now (perhaps) which is great for me but probably not so much for james and jess. We are plotting a little get together to wet the albums/stake holder agreements head.. we thought it would be great to meet some of you and unveil a little more of the plan for the next few months,, watch this space, you shall be informed shortly after the final day of stake holder availability on the 31st of june..under two weeks left, keep them coming in!

phew..

Its been a long hot week of hurtling around trying to get the pass it ons' into 100 pairs of hands. I think we have about ten left and they are suddenly becoming much more precious to us as the number reduces. Its been really good just letting the music go (quite literally) and handing it over to people for their reaction. i just really hope that people don't sit on them and appreciate just how much we want them to travel. We're now starting to turn our heads towards the album release which shall be in the autumm.. the stakes have been selling really well which has been so encouraging for us, there are two weeks left before they all get allocated out so please get involved now if you think its something you fancy (inmyheaditworks@shiftydisco.co.uk) even if its just to buy one stake. We want as many different individuals owning stakes as possible, so in theory that could be several hundred people all having a personal reason for keeping a beady eye on our progress..sort of like a fantasy football league thing but with a band?!

Our manager for the last 4 years Vanessa will shortly be relinquishing her role as she wants to focus solely on being a mother-she will give birth in 5 weeks time, this shall be really sad as she has been a part of us since day one and has been instrumental in all the things we've achieved to date and particularly in allowing us as a band to never have to worry about the mechanics/logistics side of things. We shall definately miss her alot. Huge respect is due. We have been so lucky to have wonderful/honest people of integrity working with us thus far, we just hope we can find another manager of similar quality. Watch this space.

Any feedback on the songs on pass it on (which are also on our website) would be much appreciated as we shall be shortly turning our thoughts towards single choices and video's..any ideas are always welcome.

thanks dan