What's the do?

What's new?

Well, we had three tracks at once in the HypeMachine chart. It's a kind of blog presence aggregator which tells you who's the most talked about artist across the internet. We had it with Red and Emanate, and now Undone has done the same. That's cool, right? This remix of Once Again is in there, too. It's lovely to have so much support that we start getting involved in these things. It's a clear sign that things are moving forward. I mean, we love what we do and have loved everything we've done so far, but moving forward in our online presence and getting more people involved is just so good; knowing that we're able to reach so many people by doing what we enjoy.

Thanks, everyone.

Undone, if you're not aware, is now available to stream. Display is on its way. 16^Th June. You can pre-order via iTunes (UK, US) OR take a look at our limited edition vinyl, available here.

Two launch shows; one in Brighton and one in good old London town, at one of our favourite venues. We're talking to the string quartet. We'll be...stringing them along.

Eh?

Eh?

So clever.

We had a rehearsal yesterday for our appearance at Wychwood festival tomorrow. First festival of the season!

Ed hands me a sustain pedal, back in the Phoria house.

'Tim, I've got to go and sort something – can you please remember to bring this to practice for me?'

'Yeah of course!'

So ask me why I left the rehearsal room and got in my car just as we were getting started. Go on. Go on, ask me. Go on.

He got his revenge. 7-0 on FIFA 13. 7-0. I'll get my revenge, though. I wonder if his gear will be at the gig tomorrow, or whether it will have mysteriously disappeared into a ditch somewhere along the A27.

I wonder.

Otherwise, it's work. More new stuff. Talking to people. Doing interviews, watching the reviews come in.

Getting ready for an exciting recording session at a very famous studio at the end of June. Who knows what'll come out of it. Music, probably.

Jeb's working on a couple of videos for us and other people, which should make their appearance soon enough. He showed me some of the drafts yesterday and they're really impressive. I mean, like, really impressive. Damn him.

All I've seen Seryn doing of late is sprinkling salt on buttered toast. What a wacky neighbour.

And I'm just sat here typing.

The weekend's coming up. If you can't feel the sense of pure unadulterated ecstacy that I'm trying to force through this post, then to be honest you're not ready for the weekend ahead of you. I'd pretend it's Monday tomorrow and go back into training, if I were you, which I could well be without your knowing.

Perhaps I should put the keyboard down, now, and play Fez for the rest of the day.

If you're going to have fun, make sure you grease your toes with butter, first. It aids the dancing.

Pleasure, as always.

Heartford O'Helt.

(Tim).

Wh.oosp

I try and avoid all forms of activity, where possible.

Honestly, I’d rather stare blankly into space, thinking about nothing at all, than get up to make a cup of tea, or pull someone from a burning building. I’d rather sit and watch, and think about how I’d have done it differently, than actually do it. This is not so much a product of my own laziness, I tell myself, but in order to protect others from my often disastrously enacted actions. Like ‘fixing’ my neighbour’s oven.

After several internal band appeals, however, for someone to fix a private playlist on the ever useful Soundcloud, went unnoticed, I took it upon myself to fix it up, to make it all sprucely, to ‘sort it out’ as I believe the productive people say.

This is what led to what Ed correctly called ‘Soundcloud-gate’, the other day. In my haste to get back to avoiding all activity I accidentally rushed through the uploading process on three of the many tracks I was putting up, and made them public, which, unknown to me, sends out a blaring call on facebook for everyone to LISTEN TO THE NEW PHORIA TRACKS THEY’VE JUST PUT UP ON THEIR SOUNDCLOUD. 

Whoops.

Imagine my horror (I immediately realised what had happened, because, while I’m as dumb as the next man, I still haven’t read enough Government white papers  to have that level of fecklessness really rub off on me) as I sat and watched the play count rise over a period of about twenty seconds. ‘No worries,’ I thought, ‘I can quickly set these tracks to private and no-one will be any the wiser.’ I nipped one of them in the bud. One play on the play count. Whoops! Back to the main menu. What? The other two now have four plays. Quick! Another one bites the dust. HOW HAS THAT THIRD TRACK RECEIVED SIX PLAYS IN TWENTY SECONDS? Private. Done. Crisis averted?

Ring ring.

‘Hello?’

‘Oh, hello Tim. Yeah, I’m just clearing up this mess you’ve made. How’re you?’

At first I thought it was the local sewer maintenance office, but it turned out to be Ed.

‘Did you know it comes up on facebook whenever you upload a public track?’

‘No.’

‘Well...now you do.’

So, some of you got a listen. Luckily, two of the tracks are ones that we’ve flirted with publicising for some time. Not too bad. They’ve been up on Soundcloud before.

One of them, however, was a brand new sprinkle of joy. The ‘new sound’. A track from the new EP. This was the one that received one listen.

There is one fan out there. One fan, among the many of you. One, real, person, with ears, who has heard it. Who knows what they heard? Did they like it? Did they immediately remove themselves from the facebook group having succumbed to the last straw, losing all patience? Did they ascend to a higher plane of consciousness? Did they go and live in the middle of the ocean, hoping never to hear another human-produced squeak?

We may never know.

What we can know, however, is that I subsequently went to Ed’s house, apologised again, thanked him, and then maimed him sorely at Tekken II.

He didn’t know that would show up here.

Aside from all the screw-ups and flip-kicks, we’re getting stuff sorted for showing you our big one at St. Pancras Old Church on 7thFeb. We’ve got the strings, we’ve got the vids...we’ve got the power. You should come. Tickets. They're limited and they are selling.

So, that’s it. Another week done. New Year’s is long in the memory, but never fear – something is just around the corner. I have no idea what it is, but it’s inevitable, right? I mean, that’s what corners are for.

Enjoy yourself. Have a nice weekend. Don’t step on any snails in the dark.

Tim