Taking stock of things

It's been a while. We have been working on a load of new ideas, and making preparations for our summer tour. It will be our biggest tour yet and marks the end of a 2 year growth period which we initiated with a new line-up, aiming to propel Through Solace to a better level. Our aim was to become better at our instruments and to be able to write and record a full-length. We eventually achieved this, but during the process we had to all become better musicians. However, I want to avoid making us sound like a soulless machine; the past two years can be summed up as awesome times. Spiritually we have grown. Musically we have seen Sean become a quality drummer, from a position where he had never played a show and basically just hyped himself up to get into the band! Our friendships and maturity have developed massively, and most importantly we are still having a great time.

Right now we are coming out of a quiet period where we focused on our education, jobs etc, into a busy summer. I am really content with it, because we will be knocking a few more acts off the "bands who we have always wanted to play with" list, namely Misery Signals, and also we are going to Europe again, and playing the Greenbelt Festival in England which is a show we always enjoy and a place where we have a warm welcome. See our myspace for all those dates and more.

Last week we played with some huge metal bands, supporting Despised Icon. It was a very unusual line-up to play on, with the metal bands way heavier than us. We were still stoked though and it turned out to be really fun, so thanks to Mike for putting us on.

Next week we are playing 2 shows with Ella and Cadences. Ella is a post-hardcore band who were around back when we formed, and Cadences are a new band who invited us to do these gigs.

First up is a free show at Le Pub, Newport on Friday 10th July. Followed by The 2 Pigs, Cheltenham, on Saturday 11th July. See you there!