Plans for 2010

Happy New year everyone!

2010 has got off to a busy start with us hiding ourselves away in our lockup 3 days a week while we put the finishing touches to the songs we've written for the album.
We'd originally planned to start recording the album this month but due to various factors we've pushed it back until the start of March now so we've got plenty of time to get them all perfect :-)

we are however recording two tracks at Dub:rek studios with Jay over the last weekend of January for a split EP we're doing with Beyond this point are monsters, we're hoping to have it ready before we head to Ireland for our tour with Chrik, those dates again are...

15th - Secret show, Northern Ireland
16th - Auntie Annies, Belfast
17th - Masons, Derry
18th - Baker Place, Limerick
19th - The Quad, Cork
20th - Twisted Pepper, Dublin

We're still booking shows for our first European tour with Kasper Rosa in July/August if anyone can help us out at all, we'll love ya forever :-)

We'll keep ya updated!

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Happy Christmas :-)

YEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! It's almost Christmas and we're in hibernation for another week before we start recording our first album so it's time to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who supported us in any way this year.

We've had an absolute blast playing around 90 shows all over the UK and Ireland, highlights have included supports with Mono, ZU, Kong, Adebisi shank and Chickenhawk, Our tours with Monsters build mean robots, Double handsome dragons, Kasper rosa and This is our monument (So many good times), Filming for the I'm NOTT from London movie, The Hockley Hustle, Being introduced by the BBC, Joining the Field records family, the 123.EP going to Japan and finally partying with all the awesome people we've met on our travels :-)

Special thanks to Ross Hunter for his continuous help, Tim Waterfield for all his time and support and of course recording the 123.EP, Osamu @ Linus records in Japan, Ali from BTPAM, Jay, Jim & Callum @ Dub:rek, Dean Jackson @ BBC Nottingham, Will Robinson, Leftlion, all the promoters who put us on, Will Hapgood, Dan Robertson and Dan Barrett...anyone else we've not mentioned you know who you are...you all mean alot to the three of us...mwwaaaaahhhhhh xxx

Extra extra special thanks to Hayley and Neff for being so understanding and supportive..you both know why!!!

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

See ya in 2010

Love,

Alright the Captain
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ATC in Japan.....kinda!

We received a lovely email yesterday from a guy called Osamu in Tokyo, it turns out he wants to stock the 123.EP through Linus records...
we're all obviously chuffed that anyone in Japan had even heard of us let alone taken the time to contact us about putting out our little DIY EP :-)

Saturday we played our last show of the year in EYE and it was fuckin awesome, it was so much fun and a great way to end a busy gigging schedule so big thanks to Jane, Sophie, Lee and everyone else involved in organising the party :-)
Since then we've locked ourselves up in our new lockup while we crack on with getting the album and split 7" done for release in 2010, we have 2 more new songs (working title for one of which is called Peanut worm) in progress and a few more ideas floating around to be worked on too :-)

time for a coffee tho now!

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slackers return!

right so we've been slacking on the blog recently but thats about it really...we've been busy badgers writing and tweeking tracks for the album which we'll be starting work on over winter and hopefully releasing late spring (fingers crossed) we've also been playing some fun shows including our first trip back to London in over a year,we played the old blue last with Shield your eyes ,Nitkowski and In case of moon disaster and caught up with friends we'd not seen in ages, even the long drive home was fun as we blasted out all the nu-metal classics :-)

Tonight we play our last Nottingham show of the year @ SEVEN with worrieaboutsatan, Last days of lorca and Lost from Atlas so thats gonna be party central i reckon.

The partying continues right over the next few days too as Ash's night Creative blocks is tomoro and features UPCDOWNC, Last days of Lorca and Nova robotics @ Big Blue in Derby. Then on ASaturday we play our final show of 09 in EYE, it's a fancy dress party and the theme is Granny & Grandads so expect to see some ridiculous photos of what we might look like 60 years from now :-)

we'll keep ya updated :-)

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This is Captain Rosa Tour

so we finished our 5 day stint with our friends This is our monument and Kasper rosa last night and had an absolute blast, there was so much mayhem and banter along the way it would just take too long to write about it all (there'll be lots of video footage doing the rounds soon) but

* there was alot of partying in peterborough,
* banana curry (wtf?) and a beautiful massive house to stay in in chichester,
* biffy clyro stealing the show in nottingham,
* drunken debauchery and taking over derby into the early hours
* and alot of hangovers in leeds which got blown away by khuda.

We'll be seeing our new friends again in feb for Ryan Kasper rosa's 21st and copius amounts of bucky:-)

THANK YOU to everyone who came along to any of the shows or bought any merch and extra special thanks to Pablo, Pete, Michaella, Ali, Cal, Double handsome dragons, Flies are spies from hell, Karhide, Catharsis and Khuda and of course Ross, Pete, Adam, But(ley), Tree,Shane, Dave and Ryan....BIG LOVE!

ATC

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less than a week til tour :-)

We kick off on friday in Peterborough with a masssive reunion of sorts since our irish tour in august, we'll be playing with Kasper rosa and Double handsome dragons who both played Derry with us and our captain brother Ross' new band This is our monument so its fun times to start the tour :-)

come say hello at any of the dates below

YEEEEEEEEEOOOOWWWW!

We'd a blast at the Hockley hustle again this year and can't wait til next year, thank you to Will (i'm not from london)for putting us on and everyone who came along :-) we caught some awesome bands like shapes, beyond this point are monsters, Monsters build mean robots, taken by the tide & worriedaboutsatan. Excellent day overall :-)

on that note we're all suitably fired up for our mini tour starting at the end of next week with our Irish buddies Kasper Rosa & This is Our Monument, the dates are...

6th Nov - Goodbarns yard, Peterborough w/ Double handsome dragons
7th - Chichester inn. Chichester w/ Flies are spies from hell
8th - Chameleon, Nottingham w/ Karhide
9th - The Vines, Derby w/ Catharsis
10th - Packhorse, Leeds w/ Khuda
14th - Horse & Groom, Lincoln w/ Chickenhawk



see ya there
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