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It's all about Continuance. Ex-members of Means and Saints Never Surrender (kind of the whole band!).

In the meantime, we have a new grey version of the popular 'rays' shirt for sale in the Facedown store. Go and check it out.

We also have merch in the UK, selling at our bigcartel. If you can buy something it really helps us to get our van back on the road.

So we are just chilling now, writing songs, jamming and watching the reviews of our album come in! We'll be back playing shows again in about a month's time. Thanks to everyone who reads this!

May Update

Hi everyone, sorry it's been so long without an update on this blog.

We have been busy promoting our new album and would like to thank everyone who has got a copy.

Reviews so far have been very promising, it's just a matter of getting them all together to post up.

Right now we have been taking a break from playing shows because Rob is finishing at University with exams, so we are using this time to carry on working on new material. As we type this we are in Smallsy's new studio in Newport (called Terraforma) working on some ideas and demos.

See you in July when we return with our first show back, alongside DESPISED ICON in Newport (TJ's, July 1st).

Pre-order our CD !

You can now pre-order our album 'The World On Standby' over at the Facedown store.

The Strike First Records website has an awesome splash page. If you click the pre-order link you'll be taken to some deals that include a ltd edition t-shirt!

2009 Promo Photos

We took our first photos of 2009 (by our friend the Mike) in sunny Barry.

Visit our myspace to see more!

Release show aftermath

Major thanks to everyone who came to see our 'CD release show' for The World on Standby. I hope everyone who got a copy enjoys it. It's the only chance to get one before the official release date through Strike First Records which is April 28th.

The show did not go originally as planned as no less than 6 bands had to pull out for genuine reasons over the course of us trying to get a 3 band line-up together. We're sorry about that . We did our best and it was good that people still showed up. Story of our life is that things always go against us, we are used to it. But that made it all the more rewarding when we were able to play the new songs and have a physical product to give to people. The atmosphere was incredible and it was a really good time for everyone involved.

Thanks goes to Storm The Walls for playing at such short notice, and Steel Mind for doing a set. Thanks as well to Ash without him the album wouldn't have happened!

Anyone that couldn't make it, you should pre-order our album! We appreciate everyone's support and are truly grateful to anyone who listens to our music.

THE WORLD ON STANDBY cd release show

This Friday is the first chance to get our record 'The World On Standby' before it comes out on April 28th.

So everyone who has ever supported us, please come down, £4 in gets you a CD. They look incredible, Dave Quiggle has really done an awesome job capturing the celestial theme that we wanted. The original line-up for the CD release show fell apart to an extent, but it's worked out so that it will still be an awesome moment for us and for everyone who has supported this band since 2005. Excitement is building! If you can't make it you'll be able to pre-order our album at the Facedown Store with a sweet merch deal. You can hear 3 songs from the album at our myspace.

In the meantime we just did 2 shows on the weekend, in Coventry with BWP, Almost Home and Bound By Blood (check out all of those bands!) and then in Birmingham on Sunday which was a hardcore all dayer for Reign Supreme and 50 Lions' tour. No less than 4 South Wales bands played! It was a good time although for us we stood out musically on the line-up.

Busy times, hope to see everyone on Friday.

Action-packed week

Does anyone still read this? I hope that at the least, the kid from the Philippines who always messages us on myspace reads this, or our best friend in the world who lives in Alabama. It's funny how support comes from the strangest places. But anyway...

We just got back from a mini-tour in northern England with a German hardcore band called Never Back Down. We have known them on the internet for a few years (I don't really know why) and they decided to do a run of shows in the UK. We couldn't do a full tour with them at this time of the year but we did joi for 4 dates. It kicked off nicely with a free show in Newport at our favourite local venue Le Pub, which was amazing with some incredible bands. People went off. We then joined the Germans in Derby, Stoke and Birmingham. Not alot of people came out unfortunately, but enough were there to make it worthwhile. Thanks to our friend Davey at JesusxCore zine for making it happen and his girlfriend Karoline for letting us stay at her house. We also are giving out a major thanks to Never Back Down, it was great watching them every night and hanging out with them. We always get on well with bands from Mainland Europe.

We have now set a rule- no more playing as a four piece! We did these shows again missing our guitarist/vocalist Rob who is tied up with University work. Also we rode the whole journey in one car with gear all over ourselves, and borrowing Never Back Down's equipment. Not fun, but we made it and were grateful to play shows and not lose money!

Listen to Never Back Down here.

Label News- Facedown Records have after much consideration and prayer launched a new initiative called More Than Sound where they are promoting organisations and missions that do service and good works, both by raising awareness and also financially. Be sure to check that out. I love our label family.

Album News- We don't have a firm release date for 'The World On Standby' yet although April 23rd is the provisional date. More on that and a release show soon!

That's about it for now. More local shows next week, including Cardiff which we are really looking forward to. Then a week later we are doing a show