I am currently undertaking a hefty jaunt round the Edinburgh Open Mic circuit and so far, it is going pretty well. From the 7th of May to the 22nd of May, we are playing an event almost every night. It is great to just 'get out there' and see the reactions to our music - which have ranged from annoyance to glee.

It all kicked off at The Steamie on South Bridge, Monday May 7th. Our audience (not including the two bar staff and the compere) consisted of four old blokes at the bar (two of whom put their fingers in their ears once I started singing), two guys at a table in front of us squinting past us to watch the football on the big telly which we were placed in front of, and a couple of daft lasses behind us nit-nattering; at least they left after one song and gave us peace. We played seven songs to a solitary clap, from the compere. I had mixed emotions throughout - on one hand feeling dissapointed at the lack of respect we were shown, and on the other hand feeling proud that we had just knuckled down and got on with it. We resolved that regardless of what anyone else thinks, we love our music and will go out of our way to play it everywhere we can, whenever we can. I'm never gonna give up now.

From this humblest of starts, things have improved - we've been selling a CD we have made in small (but impressive given the circumstances) numbers, and there always seems to be at least 2 or 3 people who really enjoy us - I'd rather that than a whole room be indifferent. This is what we have found at a lot of the low key shows we have played - although most people ignore us and don't care, there are always a few that really do care and want to let us know too. For me it is extremely important that people enjoy our music, so it is with mixed feelings that we embark on this venture to largely indifferent audiences ...but for the few people who do enjoy us, it is worthwhile. We are trying to reach out to people and improve ourselves as musicians. I feel like we have to prove ourselves. We have to play music as much as possible because our atoms collected in a certain way that made it sound good and it is just far too easy to sit and frittle your entire life away giving nothing to no one. We played Bannermans on Sunday afternoon and there were about ten people there - we still put on the best show we could, for ourselves, for our pride, for the one drunken cunt nodding his head at the bar. We are getting the bug of being a band and we don't want to let go.