So that was 2009, its been a pretty significant year for us as a band. So pour yourself something hot and alcoholic and join us as we kick back and reminisce over some of our favorite events/gigs/parties/incidents of the past year.

We will begin with what is perhaps the most significant event of all of 2009, Martin’s Hair Cut. This single event eclipsed everything else that has ever happened in the history of civilisation!

Following on from this at a very distant second would be the release our self-titled EP in at Electric Circus in Edinburgh. We love the vibe at this venue and its fast becoming our Musical Mecca. As well as hosting our EP release here, we also decided the hedonistic atmosphere created an ideal atmosphere in which to film the video for our track ‘Sorry it Hurts’. Although we have found that filming in a venue with an open bar and not get hammered in the process, is extremely difficult. Thanks to the wizard video skills of Mike Riding however the majority of our debauchery was left on the cutting room floor.

We had a lot of fun recording our E.P. The highlight was inviting some of our beloved fans to join us at Sneaky Pete’s,where we set about capturing all their angelic voices singing along to Never Again. Nick assumed the roll of conductor and using a marker pen for a baton he soon had everyone belting it out (“My God my head is sore…worse still”). Then it was over to our very own Mix Master, Dave Keay at Bootcamp Recordings, who worked his magic.

We’ve played some amazing gigs this year. As well as supporting uber-cool Mercury Music Prize nominees The Invisibles (who’s album was also iTunes Album of 2009), we supported the equally brilliant Everything Everything. We’ve gallivanted across so much of central Scotland, that if you set our gig guide to an acoustic guitar backing it would sound like a Proclaimers song.

We’ve played a gig in Saughton Prison with an English gay Muslim comedian as our warm up act, which was a pretty unique experience. During the summer we went ‘guerrilla gigging’ around Edinburgh, playing gigs, well, wherever we wanted really.

Check out part deux of our look @ 2009 here