Hello friends, fans and lovers,
We are cascading down the autoban towards Hamburg. I am still fighting the last few vestiges of a cold. Listening to the Pointer Sisters, who I find (quite frankly) brilliant.
Spend five days in Leipzig after our amazing show. I rested a lot (due to my cold) and watched way too much youtube and downloaded a bunch of movies: Bad Santa, The Fountain and others. One day we went to this groovy place where there were lots of galleries and cafes and wandered around. Some kitschy (overused word, I know), garish 80's-style art. One gallery full of smashed cars photos. It was a huge room. The acoustics were brilliant, so we asked if we could set up and film us doing a tune. We did "Omigod". There were questions about copyright, if we want to post this or put it in Ineke's movie, but we decided we'll just blur out the cars. Didn't really care for the art anyway. Felt wayyy too derivative.
Stayed with Tobi and friends. Delightful bunch of people. Tobi rock-climbs and has a groovy haircut. He has a wall full of black and white photos so we did a wee Trike photo-shoot in front of it.
We also FINALLY uploaded the album online for Capsule Records, who want to have us as their featured artists and feature our compilation album, "Do The Trikey" on March 25th. So we made a Facebook event for it. We are STILL releasing our newest album, but we're not sure when. In truth, I'd like to get the album out to all sorts of publications and get some reviews happening before the official release. But we'll see. I'm still kind of new to all this. I've only ever self-released anything I've done, selling a few hundred albums, but that's about it.
We didn't book, but our previous booking efforts paid off. Every day a few venues contacted us. Some rejections, other bookings. Now we have a whack of new shows; totalling 41 in all... when I'm feeling better we'll keep booking. The thing is, we've got things planned til June 6, but no further. That's three months from now. After that, who the fuck knows? We thought about doing our six months/ six cities idea (six months in six different cities; so we can work on making new fans, getting in touch with media, and basically getting a good feel for/ base in each city. That way, when we book another tight Euro tour, we'd have six new (big, known) cities with loads more contacts we could tap into for shows etc... including getting in touch with media in each city; radio, magazines...
But now we don't know. The Russian fellow we met in Leipzig offered us shows in Russia, Bellarussa and Ukraine so now we're tempted to head that way in June, to be honest.
Another issue is transportation. It's not easy for us to get around without a car.
So a lot of things to figure out in the few months. We also need to record our "Mushy" single and plan a new album; either "Mushy Muschi Moshy" or "People Have Names" (all the songs we've written about journalists, George Strombo etc.). Lots of decisions to make. We would also have to figure out where and when we could record it.
Anyway, that's all in the future. Now we head to Hamburg, where we have a nice bunch of fans we made last time we were in that fair Northern Germany city. We're introducing "Julie Booth", another interactive song (involving pillow fights) tonight. I think it will also be the first time we introduce "Omigod"... can't wait.
Tootles.
Stephen
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