Pale news JUNE

June 2008

Hello There!

New Drummer Secured
As you may be aware, Stoobie will be off travelling come July so we have been hard at work looking for our new permanent drummer in a bid to shake off the 'Curse of the Spinal Tap' we suffered for the past while. This we have now managed to do. His name is Jim :) We are busy putting the set back together and writing more new material with him, with plans to be back to gigging from August / September onwards. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible, do not adjust your set.

Every Cloud
Details of this event next weekend are all in the flyer shown below (blog: flyer a few posts down). If any of you want advance tickets and cant get to any of the places they are being sold from, simply email us and we can work something out. Hope to see as many of you there as possible, as its going to be a top day our for all the family (as long as they are over 18, it is a pub after all).

Recording
Our recording continues, regardless of what hiccups the old tech we are using may throw our way, and it has had a few wobblers but thats not going to stop us. Plans are afoot to make an album from what we are doing with it.

Myspace
Any of you who are myspace afficianados might have noticed that our myspace has had a serious facelift. You can find it at www.myspace.com/paleuk.

Well thats about it for now.
See you on the road...

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Middle of Nowhere Festival

What a tiring and amusing weekend that was. After much mooching about and sorting things out we finally got on site late friday afternoon and set about having a beer or two before we played. Things were a little delayed as things ran slightly late (not a bad thing) and a band or two pulled out (muppets), but we finally took the stage around 8pm. We had a broken drum stand which we had to go blag another to borrow (thanks Hips, nice one chaps) but once we got things going all was good. A later (or even a saturday) slot would have been nice but we instead we essentially opened the festival (from a loud music point of view) after some accoustic chaps played a set just before us. Things went very well, we had a good laugh at the gig and got peeps to dance for us. After all that it was time for us to have a festival ourselves as we were done playing. I wont go into many details of the debauchery and devilry that followed, but needless to say we had a very amusing time. We hosted a firepit party till about 10am sat morning, which saw some 40 odd people gather and amuse themselves around the fire (hello fellow fire people!), everyone seems to get wood for everyone else and Mark invented his blues name - 'Gravy Lips' Lewis. Things were drunk, including most of the people present, and other things were consumed. Saturday we made a farmhouse rustic chinese (nice work there stoob) and proceeded to repeat the night before's activities with drinking and partying. An exquisite weekend was had by all. If you made it, then you already know. If you didnt, then come next year to find out...

"Every Cloud..." music event / Bird in Hand saturday 14th June

last draft of the flyer, should be about right...

Lastnight @ The Bird in Hand

Wow was it hot lastight. Very warm indeed. We had 4 cooling fans laid out around the stage, and it was still hot! Still, thats the summer for you and we wouldnt want it otherwise would we? So We got to the Bird and did the usual setup games, sound checking and such. Grace hit the stage around 9.30pm and played a beautiful set that was well recieved by those brave enough to enter the building in such temperatures, big thanks to them and we look forward to seeing them play again at "Every Cloud...". By 10.30 we were ready to play and hit the stage, with the fire doors closed by this time (to avoid a visit from the noise police) we started roasting ourselves and flew into our set. Applying a liberal basting of cooking juices, and some much needed throat lubrication, we worked our way through the hour we had set up to play. A fabulous reaction from each and every song we played was splendidly received by us, very much appreciated as it was hot work! We even got a birthday dedication in (happy b'day T!) and a competition for when Mark was gonna fuck up the song he likes to fuck up from time to time just to check if anyone is paying attention :) A great, and well enjoyed gig. Thanks all who came down and braved the temperatures! See you next time folks...

Next Gig: The Bird in Hand

Exoteric Single Lauch Party / Gig

Saturday just gone we headed up to Bradford for the launch party. The trip up went easy enough, getting us at the venue for before 4pm. Sound checks ensued as is the norm for such things and at around 8.30pm we took to the stage to play. We had some walk on music we had chosen, from the film Requiem For A Dream - if anyone is curious, and then we played our set. Things went somewhat rapidly, with a few well chosen f*ck ups by us - a consequence of us not practicing that day - but overall our performance was good and very well reacted to. It was, after all, a crowd of Exoteric fans who had never heard us before, but the gig went well and good. There was some shenanegans with the sound desk, but we managed to dodge most of the problems as the power was knocked out after we had played (it wasnt us!) leaving Exoteric to deal with a digital sound desk with blanked settings and it being time for them to play. Not a nice experience I'm sure.

Overall the night was a great success, we got great feedback from the gathered crowd and gave out a whole batch of our BBC Sessions cd's. Some good photos have already been upped (thanks to David Brett http://www.photos-dsb.co.uk/) with more to come. We had feelers for more gigs up in Bradford from several quaters and it should see us return there for more giggings soon as we can sort it out.

Major thanks to Exoteric for asking us to come up and play their party, we wish them the best of luck in all things - especially their support slots on the UK dates of Wednesday 13's tour - big thankyou Anneka, Tom, David and Steve and all their friends for such a welcoming visit. See you on the road :)

BBC Session Butterfly effect

So we play this bbc session, even tho Gep, Mark and Stoobie were all ill for one reason or another (and im not talking hangovers) and the very next day Mark gets fired by the delightful company he was working for.

Im not sure they had an official clause for dismissal along the lines of playing a radio session after having had the day off sick, but they rustled something up and sacked him for it. Nice.

"Rock'n'Roll eh?" is Marks opinion on the matter.