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Nice to see the safe return of Mikey "The Heff" from Scotland - I look forward to heading up to Aberdeen next month - apparently Aberdonians are as tight as a duck's batty? My mate from Edinburgh said that "they tight coonts frae' Aberdeen" are considered frugal even by Scottish standards. Now - without getting into stereotyping or mass-labelling or anything like that - if my mate Don says you're tight - well, that's like having John Gotti accuse you of having nefarious underground contacts!

Anyway, enough of Sweaty-baiting. My news today is that White Sunday are doing a TV interview and an acoustic song (we're still trying to figure out which one to do) on Monday for Meridian TV - to promote the Newbury Fringe festival we're playing at on Sun 29th May in Victoria Park. I'm looking forward to it, I haven’t really done a lot of TV so should be a giggle. I am looking forward to playing an acoustic song too, when I first hooked up with James it was just sitting in his house jamming tunes on acoustics and it always sounded really good. I think Jimmy G's voice lends itself to acoustic accompaniment, although I'm reluctant to put down the Telecaster for good!

Other than that, not a lot to report. Oh, our gig at Po Na Na on Tuesday was cool. Bit of an odd venue to get used to - I think it's brilliant if you are a punter, and a bit dodgy if you are in a band! I expect it will grow on us, it's still early doors and we managed to get an impressive number of people down for a Tuesday night. Ecoute kicked things off (sounding lovely), followed by Sequoia (who also sounded lovely) then we played - when we weren't snapping strings or playing around with guitar pedals, etc. - and debuted 2 new songs which were well-received. Off The Radar wound things up with another tight set. As tight as an Aberdonian's purse strings.

Anyway, rock on kids - and be excellent to each other. Watch out for White Sunday on Meridian TV on 22nd May!

Yours - and mine,

Alex