Hello to you, wonderful reader.

Those with a keen eye will see that we have removed the artwork on our website for our second album, Births, Deaths & Marriages. (BDM) It’s a bitter sweet moment for us. On one hand, we are delighted to have a new album sitting in front of us, and are keen-as-punch to show it to you all. But on there other hand, it’s a time where we rest an album that has taken up most of [26]s life.

BDM has taken us to Canada, Los Angeles, England, Scotland, Hong Kong and around Australia. It had pipe organs, choirs, harpists, guest instrumentalists and a good dose of rock added to the mix. It’s gotten spins on BBC6, Triple J, FBI, and a plethora of US stations. And we’ll never forget it’s 3 minutes of fame on the NBC tv show life which opened up many many doors for us.

Above all else, it was a special album for us on an emotional level. During its creation, one of us said I do, one of us welcomed a little human into the world, and we all said goodbye to 2 special people. As the titled suggested, we saw the full spectrum of life in one album. To say it was a special part of our lives is a bit of an understatement. So how do you top that?

Well, we think we have. It is its own beast.

SO it’s time to say adios to Births, Deaths and Marriages and prepare for our new album ******** ********* (going to make you wait just a wee bit longer). It’s a bitter sweet time, but mostly an exciting time.

Hope you all have/had a good easter break.
Talk soon
[26]

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]