We think the idea of SOPA is scary. It’s a bomb to kill a bug. As musicians, we understand the debate about Intellectual Property, but we can’t condone this sort of action that’s effectively ‘on our behalf’. It’s old world thinking by old world people. It completely grates on us that the music industry is helping lead this ridiculous charge, because we’re yet to meet a musician (those that own the IP) that actually agrees with it.

The worst and most deluded part of SOPA, is that it goes far beyond simply ‘protecting’ intellectual property, and into the realms of destroying this amazing tool we have been given – the internet. Have a look at the video linked below for a further explanation.

[26] does not support SOPA, and never can support SOPA. We support an open and free internet, because without it, we probably wouldn’t be here. If you want to sit with your guitar in front of a webcam and cover one of our songs, we want to thank you – not damn you.

The internet is an amazing thing. We’re big fans!

http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa

Just a couple of random pics from the studio. We so love recording drums!!! Massive nerds!

Ross & Iain chat, Nick makes coffee and I take photos – standard [26] recording session.

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Hello? Check…1…. 2…1…2… Is this thing still on?

Ok, its been a while between posts. So what happened to us? Well, we are pointing our fingers squarely at the UK.

We took a small batch of new tracks with us to the UK, to give them a bit of a test drive in the live space. We certainly got an answer! We got a great reaction to them, so we came back, and got them down in the studio straight away.

We’ve also been chatting with some industry chaps, radio chaps, artist chaps, and all manner of other chaps, leading up to album 3.

We are also back into our Facebook, twitter & blog. Apologies for the loss of transmission for a while there. Returning from tour we were a little swamped, but in a good way.

Stay tuned for a brief roundup of our UK tour (which kicked massive ass incidentally), and keep your digital eyes and ears out for some exciting news heading your way.

talk soon (promise)
[26]

Fellow travelers and Australians, we have been saved – by Australians!

We had heard rumors that London did indeed have something that resembled a good espresso based coffee. We did our research, paid off some contacts and did a bit of recon, and finally found some.

ALL HAIL MILK BAR in Soho. Also, a shout out to Mickey and the team. Always nice to get a bit of music banter with your coffee.