At least i have this old guitar, to get me through December…
Tuesday 1st December
It is customary in this line of work to leave things to the last possible opportunity, so it was that Ciara, Ronan and the two Pauls finally booked their flights to London only last night!
By sheer felicity however we got a reasonable deal and will be appearing at The Enterprise, Camden, next Saturday December 12th and on the Friday Forum Show with Recharged Radio the Friday Dec 11th at seven, which you’ll be able to listen to here. On the Thursday 10th we’ll be playing at the legendary Hope and Anchor in Islington.
When we return we will be appearing at Gifted in The Belfast Empire Thursday December 17th, the second of our two Belfast shows this month, the first being Blast:Live at Laverys Bunker this Friday the fourth at about eight, which will be broadcast on Blast 106.4 (a new student radio station) the following week while we’re kicking it in capital city.
Also keep an eye out for The Great Dame, a new alternative pantomime from the Men of The Hour crowd, with whom we did a couple of gigs in the summer. It’ll be playing in The Black Box, Belfast, Sunday 20th December through December 23th, and will feature music from your favourite folk-pop Belfastians.
Many thanks to all those at BBC Radio Ulster and Gerry Anderson’s production team for going out of their way to make us feel at home, and to the man himself who, as you can see from above, was the picture of avuncularity- stick that in your pipe Stephan Nolan!
We were also pleasantly surprised to learn that Gerry’s producer is none other than Michael Bradley from the Undertones, and he in turn was surprised that we had covered one of his songs for a punk nostalgia project earlier in the year, remarking that we had actually improved the track. We beg to differ of course but thanks anyway!
We’ll be taking a short break for Christmas and by and large will be keeping our live appearances to a minimum this January to hopefully finish our new EP. There may be one or two little things here and there however- we’ll keep you posted as ever.
In the meantime good luck hauling those shopping bags around and hopefully see you before the big C,
KATCO XX.
