Our new single Breaks is now available for digital download.
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Plog Boast
It’s been a while since anything has been put on this. That’s poor form. Sure why not have a cup of tea and a kit kat while you have a wee read about some of our comings and goings since an arbitrary date… why not 1st March?
Kitty Sanchez
On the actual first of March we played our first gig of 2013 in the Stiff Kitten.
Fearon, Patrick and McKay have been going to the Stiff for years and years (probably around the time it first opened – not Aidan, he was about P4 or something then) so it was cool to play there. However, it was strange when we arrived to soundcheck, as it was the first time we had seen the place fully lit. To quote Patrick we had “no idea how we ever got lost in here!”
It was a nice wee venue and as there were spotlights we couldn’t see the audience (which is good as it still freaks me out a bit). We played our new one (at the moment called “new one”) which includes Patrick changing channels on his amp, and no cock ups occurred… which is good.
Some of us stayed to get hammered after our set. I enjoyed Hologram.
Here.. I'm enjoying @HologramBand right Now http://t.co/FLQnbSaC9s—
My Sunday Hat (@MySundayHat) March 02, 2013
Dabbling
A few days after that we travelled to Dublin for our first ever gig outside NI.
Fearon was the poor schmuck who was volunteered to be designated driver.
We managed to get parked somewhere not very near the venue and had had to carry our crap for ages – it was grim.
The whole evening was surreal. First we got interviewed by Kieron, and his producer Hazel, for 2xm. It was a shocking interview, because we said everything you are not supposed to say in a radio interview – which won’t get mentioned here. Though Kieron and Hazel seemed to enjoy it. At the end Fearon joked “good luck getting an edit”. They’ve since aired it, the whole fucking thing, swears and all, at 3pm in the fucking day! Fair play to them like.
Then the bands played. Then us. There was no soundcheck, we just went on stage, plugged in and hoped, but it seemed to work. We did our set, it was grand. Patrick was pished so was having more fun that usual, but we seemed to get away with it.
After us was a Dublin drum and bass band called WOB! who were my favourite! They were so loud and bassy that the vibrations caused glasses to break (including Aidans full pint)! Nice bunch of lads too. They posted us some tins of Guinness to make up for it!
Last on were the Confusion. They were Patrick’s favourite of the night!
At the end of the night there was a “clap-0-meter” to determine who ‘won’. We were tied to the Confusion and there was a sudden death clap off, The Confusion won (aided by Patrick too – he loved them!).
Still, we had a ball and headed home. Fearon made it to bed at 4am. Patrick and Aidan had work at 6am. Patrick got to go home. Aidan didn’t. Fearon had sense to book the day off.
Scene Missing
Not alot happened for a while. Snow, then Easter holidays and all that bollocks, and McKay had to go to Greece for work. When we did get together we we tried to write a new song (henceforth known as “new-new one”). It’s still not totally finished. We are on a third draft as we scrapped it twice. Now the structure is finished, we will have it ready soon.
We had a photoshoot too. After our gigs in Love and Death Inc, we thought that would be a nice backdrop. We had a laugh, though some of them are ridiculous!
Us ugos got some snaps taken yesterday. Cheers to @brianconey and @LoveandDeathInc for letting us lark around. http://t.co/0l4A2bQK0d—
My Sunday Hat (@MySundayHat) April 16, 2013
Fearon and McKay also met Mick Foley!!!!
We also have scheduled another day recording for next month – when we will record “new one” and “new-new one”
Tom Petty
We were also on Through the Wall last week. We (minus Aidan who was sick) did an acoustic set.
The first song we did was “new one” which we had to name. We didn’t name it until 5 seconds before we went live. Host James laughed at our shambles. McKay and Patrick checked the lyrics and called it “Jacket”. I doubt it will stay that way.
Later on we did an interview with Patrick as designated speaker. I’m surprised we allowed this after last time (see above), but he was sober and just kept talking about Tom Petty. He literary said his name 7 times in a minute.
We followed this up with a cover of Beck’s “Lost Cause” - a song that none of us had heard until two days before! We really don’t prepare well, do we?
On air
We finished our time on the show with Breaks. Which we were plugging as a single. Woo.
We had a blast (pun absolutely intended!) and James was a great laugh!
Plans
Yeah, we are going to release Breaks as a single. On Friday. Check out our shiny new look Bandcamp for details.
Also, Patrick caught the acoustic bug (not really, he always loved the thing!) and is doing a solo show this Friday in McHughs. It’s for charity. Expect some Tom Petty covers. Go!
Yeah, it’s billed as all of us, but circumstances meant that Patrick is only doing it. Though I think the rest of us are going to go… yay!
06/03/2013 – The Mercantile
6th March 2013 – King Kong Club, The Mercantile, Dublin
Set List
Headlights
Breaks
Last Draw
Show Notes
- First Gig in Dublin
- First Gig outside of N.I.
- Playing in the King Kong Club
- 3rd on with The Mysterious Chords, Darken the Distance, Wob and The Confusion
- First time Fearon was on the Stage Right – it wasn’t as traumatic as he thought.
- First time we didn’t play Further on Down the Line – it wasn’t as traumatic as…
- We were limited to three songs – we weren’t being lazy
- Closest gig to the equator.
- One of the audiance thought Breaks was called Brits … oh dear
- We were interviewed for the King Kong Show on 2xm before the gig
- We spoke very candidly and are dreading what they keep in the edit!
- I think they recorded the sets too. Yeo!
- Fearon’s novelty warm up music was the Cowboy Song by Thin Lizzy – because we were in Dublin. Shame he forgot it.
- First gig what was live streamed.
- First time we were introduced on stage…
- We were tied with The Confusion on the “Empire State Building Clap-o-meter” but they clinched it on the tie break
- Patrick was the drunkest.
- Fearon was the designated driver.
- Aidan has the weakest bladder.
- Here is a playlist of songs we listened to en route and back!
01/03/2013 – Stiff Kitten
1st March 2013 – Stiff Kitten – Belfast
Set List
Headlights
Further on Down the Line
New Song (untited)
Breaks
Last Draw
Show Notes
- First Gig of 2013
- Aidan’s 15th appearance on the sticks
- First appearance in the Stiff Kitten
- First on with Gin Craze, The Late Two’s, Hologram and Uncle Social
- Second gig with Gin Craze
- Third Gig with The Late Two’s
- Fearon’s novelty warm up music: The guitar solo from “Photograph” by Weezer and theme tune to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- 10th time playing Headlights
- First appearance of a new song, which doesn’t have a name yet…
- First set without “Explosion” since 17/1/2012
- Fearon’s first bearded appearance since 01/04/2012
News/Tracks
oops.. I’d forgotten to post these here. We’ve had them on the Soundcloud for ages! Sorry about that.
I had alluded to them previously but here they are for a sneak peak. We’ll probably make them available to download or CD or something soon enough.. we are writing new stuff at the moment so we may bundle it all together… yay!
Enjoy
The My Sunday Hat Awards 2013…
…aka The Hatties!
In tribute to some of the obscure Grammy’s, which are tonight therefore topical, we’ve came up with our own tedious awards.
AWARD!!!
If any massive, faceless, corporation want to sponsor these awards, feel free to contact us…
Also, is it narcissistic to a) name made up and meaningless awards after us and b) subsequently give some to ourselves? Well if it is… I don’t care! There is no structure here and are solely awarded on a whim…
Ukeleue player of the year (“noms” in bold):
Fearon was a shoe in most of the year as Patrick doesn’t have access to a Uke any more The band’s visit to Blast 106 in August, for an acoustic performance, was going to cement Fearon’s claim to this award, until a rehearsal at his house few days before. McKay picked Fearon’s uke for the first time and improvised something that sounded like a mandolin for Further… He did the same live on the radio with no practice. Prick.
Winner: Darren McKay.
The Arrigo Brovedani award for Smallest Crowd.
The Courthouse Gig at the start of November wasn’t as busy as expected, possibly due to the arrest of a prominent local and expected riots. Though there was still a healthy amount of people there, including the other bands, their friends and regulars.
The Beach Club gig was really quiet too, but unlike the winner it had the advantage of the other bands being there. Plus we started when the doors opened so some people started showing up during the set.
Heat 1 of the Love and Death jam was sparse during our set – as we were on last, and on a school night, people started leaving (even the other acts had left). Though the judges were obliged to stay, a few others voluntarily braved it out too. Plus it’s a small room – so less depressing.
The barrier may have been unnecessary
The deserving winner is Tanglewood! On a rainy Saturday morning we turned up on time, the stage wasn’t finished so we were delayed by over an hour! We hoped this would mean that when the gates open people would flock to the stage and we would have a big crowd for our set!
There were so few people I can remember each person. There were a consistent nine. Plus as we were in a big field instead of a bar it seemed even less! At one point the next band were watching our set so I think we peaked at 13 – so I think that was more than Fighting with Wire who headlined the second stage – which is ridiculous! So, every cloud, I guess? (though FWW are from Derry and don’t have the advantage of three members having family living within 10 miles.. Patrick’s sister even lives on the Narrow Water grounds and only turned up for half of our set, even though she was in the site!)
Thanks to the 9 people who watched us at tanglewood fest you know who you are
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Fighting With Wire (@FWWband) August 05, 2012
Patrick’s Man crush of 2012:
Stevie Mac
The sound guy at Auntie Annies.. no, the other one.
Clark Philips
James Magill
Patrick doesn’t like anyone… he barely tolerates us, so for him to say someone is “cool” or “dead on”, as was the case of all our nominees, is quite an achievement.
Clark’s win may have to be referred to the Dubious Awarding Committee though. The reason being that Patrick had a burrito for the first time that day and was extra excited, and may have gave Clark an unfair advantage.
Clark & Patrick during recording. (Post burrito)
Critique of the Year – Sponsored by Banner permanent markers.
Some people have made opinions of us. Some of them have used prose to convey these opinions:
At the start of January we had our first ever gig with Aidan. Brian Coney was there and described us a “pub-rock” and “a more endurable manifestation of Stereophonics’ sound”. We looked at that constructively (he was right!) and it spurred us on to get as far far away from that as possible.. (I think we thanked him the next time we met him)
An EP review on Goldenplec described us as “Lyrically intelligent, melodically tight and quietly self-confident..” which had us *literally* blushing.
However, my favourite was a piece of graffiti in the back of Auntie Annies. In my opinion disdain is better than indifference – and the fact someone had to see the sticker, find a marker and then write a profanity shows a lot of disdain!
Award Winning
Winner: Anon.
Social networking achievement of the year!
This award is shared by Chalcho’s Belfast and Big Fat Burrito in Toronto. These two quality burrito places follow us on twitter which is a) pretty cool and b) sums up Band Tweeter #1, aka McKay’s tweeting habits.
Hopefully Boojum will follow us soon.. Not Mex, we don’t care for them.
Runner up 1: McKay and Fearon randomly ended up on the Tennents Facebook page page
Runner up 2: Tom Petty tweeted us!
@MySundayHat "Liked"—
Tom Petty (@tompetty) July 07, 2012
I may have put these in the wrong order.. meh!
Shortest distance to travel to gig:
Criteria for this one is distance from their house to venue – using shortest route on Google maps.
Aidan – The Pavillion – 0.6 miles
Patrick – Beach Club – 1.8 miles
Fearon – Auntie Annies – 3.5 miles
McKay – Courthouse – 0.3 miles
Lazy Satire award:
Fearon had a Ferrari flag on stage for a few gigs, until one time he was using a bass amp that he couldn’t put it on, because it would cover the fans inside and make the amp over heat. He felt his identity being corroded In a rush, he chucked it to the side, and just got on with it. The flag was never seen again, because, let’s be honest, it was a bit silly and no body else wanted it there… He might bring it back for a designated day.. say if Alonso wins the championship.
#fleg
Song we are happiest about never having to play again.
Born to Run
Son of a Bitch
Drowned in sound.
Time goes slowly
It really was another level of shit, wasn’t it?
Silliest Song never to see the light of day
At the very start we had a song called Jovi. Yep, named after himself. It had something like 3 solo’s (including finger tapping, pitched harmonics, whammy bars .. all that crap) and a key change!
We didn’t get to unleash this beast at our first gig because we ran out of time. But we think maybe it was because the organizers realised the audience didn’t bring spare socks – and after we rocked them off – the prospect of bare footed patrons and the health and safety implications worried them and had to stop us.. yeah, that, or they stopped us because we were shit.. one or the other.
Bruce Springsteen Award for set length.
At our Pavillion gig, in September; as a result of constant “dropping” we had to stretch about 25 minutes of material into just under 40 minutes.. that was quite painful. Turns out there are only so many ways to plug a CD.
The Keith Gillespie award for Razz-a-ma-tazz
Keith Gillespie was the only NI player that could do a twirl on Pro Evo 3 therefore it’s only right this award is named after him.
The award goes to Aidan for his suggestion of have the four of us drumming, at the same time, during Breaks.
We managed to hold back and only have Patrick do extra drumming, after he played his chords through a loop station.
The idea was dropped altogether for being too silly and as the possibility of disaster was too great! What’s really surprising though that decision was made at the very last minute…
Aidan still hasn’t let go of his dream of multiple drummers. He even suggested it last week.
Dante meets Bosch in a crack lounge Award
Isle of Wight festival: So much rain, mud and surrounded by wankers! Springsteen was good though.
Hell is muddy.
Photo by Leona Taylor
Ronnie Drew memorial award for Facial hair of the year:
It was a straight fight between Fearon and Aidan (Patrick made an occasional embarrassing attempt and McKay knows better). Determining the award based on substance over style, hence cementing the credibility of these awards , the only person it can go it is Fearon.
Patrick, Fearon & Fearon’s Beard
Photo by Laura Angus
My Sun..kind of monster award.
Late entry. Remember the scene in Some Kind of Monster when James Hetfield storms out of a meeting and slams the door, therefore leaving Metallica in a state of limbo for months while he was in Rehab?
Well we had a similar situation the other week when Patrick took a huff and went home early. Well, it was like ten minutes early. But we didn’t see him for ages after that… well, two weeks as he was away on a pre planned holiday… not rehab…
Actually, in Some Kind of Monster, Hetfield doesn’t spend five minutes packing his gear as Lars, Kirk and Bob Rock just stare at him, slagging him off and asking if he had dinner Vodka…
Actually, it was nothing like that at all…
Most ridiculous, yet believed, lie.
Another late entry:
McKay and Fearon told Aidan that Patrick had planned to elope on holiday (see above) and go on honeymoon to Russia to see the sites of Stalingrad. Aidan believed it and wished Patrick congratulations the next time he saw him.
Kurt Anlge award for ill cocieved comeback
Fearons beard!
Just gratuitousness to show another picture
See you next year!
Breaks radio play
We’ve got some tracks back last week. We sent them to some people and a few days later The Fourcast on RTE 2xm gave Breaks its Worldwide Premier. Yay!
Listen it it here, it’s about 18 minutes in.
We’ve a few more tracks floating about so keep an eye on Facebook and Twitter if they get aired… Or wait until we record a few more and we’ll stick them on a CD or something!! Wooo!
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