It’s been a mental, interesting and educational month or so, where we’ve played our first gig - which was both exhilarating and horrifying at once - and are now moving on to our second at cheetah speed, after a heavy weekend session in my girlfriend’s renovated family barn. Anyone who produces in their bedroom, I really suggest you try playing a live show at least once, with instruments. It’s fucking difficult. Since doing it, my appreciation for anyone who can play anything live - well or not - has gone through the roof. 

There were a lot of well-wishers and mates in the crowd so there was hopefully never going to be too much heckling! It wasn’t ‘wicked’ as such - we stumbled through the thing, with 5 minute breaks between songs and flitting through files on our laptops in the classic ‘email checking’ mode. 

Almost a month later, and the whole thing feels like I felt when my first tune got a play on XFM. Just excited and wonderful and brilliant. Tomorrow’s gig at this Alternative Escape is going to be the culmination of a lot of hard work and analysis. Playing this stuff live was so impossible a few months ago, but it’s now more a live act than anything else, amazingly.

I’m just so stoked and happy that anyone would want to put us playing to people in the first place. Here’s a remix we put together for Miaoux Miaoux’s next single, and we’ve got another big one coming up well soon ahead of a single/EP release to be ironed out.

Miaoux Miaoux - Hey Sound (Dems Remix) by dems