XFM, City Showcase, Rock Sound and Radio 1 Big Weekend

Yo bitches!

It's really early.. I have had about 7 hours sleep in the last two days.. probably due to a mixture of excitement and also a sore gut that I've had every morning for the last two weeks.

Friday, XFM and Rock Sound sponsored City Showcase Gig

This was our first headline gig in London and it was incredible. The crowd were awesome and the other bands were amazing too. They came in the form of The Sea, Hunting the Minotaur and Telegraphs. You should look for them all on myspace. Also, the gig was sponsored by Fentimans botanically brewed soft drinks. They endorse us, so it was good to knock back some of their sweet sweet botans. mmmm. Anyway, this was reviewed for Rock Sound so there will be something in the magazine in the next month. I'll upload a scan when I have it. BIG thanks to City showcase, Ian Camfield and Rock Sound who put us on. YO!

Radio One's Big Weekend

This added to probably our best weekend ever. Being our first festival appearance we were super psyched. I'm going to write a proper blog soon with pictures and all, so I'll keep this brief.

Basically, we played, had a great crowd (if any of you are reading this, thanks so much for coming to watch us), did loads of interviews and drank lots of free bottled water. Our toilets were good too, until one guy left two huge logs in them.

We met Moyles, Westwood (more stories about this guy to follow), Vernon Kaye, Fern and Reggie (who are both apparently fans of the band), Jo Whiley etc etc etc. I spent all day telling most of them that we were amazing.. I think they probably wanted me to go away but humoured me nonetheless.

Videos, photos and various media to follow. In the meantime check this out from bbc3 (available for 7 days from now I think) - BBC iPlayer Fast forward to 10 minutes.

Yes! Biggest thanks in the world to local DJ Dean Jackson who put us forward to play. He is going to be best man at all of our weddings (if we can convince anyone to marry us). Check out his awesome show called The Beat. Rowan was interviewed on his show after the gig. Check it out here - Rowan Interviewed on The Beat (fast forward to 2.43)

Lastly, for anyone that likes our music, check out Challenge Swound!. You can pay what you want for our album. You could even get our album for free! The site isn't quite operational yet, but check back soon! More to follow

Challenge Swound! video

Here is the video that I have spent the past few days making.

Challenge Swound! Intro from Swound! on Vimeo.

We are playing our first London headline show on Friday and Radio 1's Big Weekend on Saturday. It's gonna be right LOL, Yeah?

Lloyd out!

Challenge Swound?

Alright mates.

We are starting a new press campaign thingy this week and we need a video for the front page of the website. So I am currently ripping off the intro video and music to Airwolf.

The campaign is called "Challenge Swound!" and involves people setting us challenges and us attempting to complete every one of them. If you read this, please don't ask us to do nasty things, but instead easy/nice things. I have compiled a list of what you should challenge us to do:

1. Go and buy a hot chocolate from Costa and drink it.
2. Have a really nice dinner.
3. Take it easy.
4. Play NBA JAM all day without moving.
5. Get given 1 million pounds.
6. Have a nice day.

They aren't really challenges, but I like to to them. Plus i love lists.

See you later, bitchez.