Dear Birds,

So, what have we been up to recently? Well, we played the lovely little town of Ipswich last Thursday at a lovely little pub called The Railway. Of course by lovely I mean absolutely woeful and crap.
To begin with, the promoter, a Mr Martin Briggs, had neither balls nor brain to take charge of the operation when it turned out we had no cymbals stands, sound engineer, working microphones and (most laughable), plug sockets! After doing our own sound (thank you Keely), it was decided that this was probably a big waste of time (4 hours each way to Ipswich). To make matters worse, the owner of this delightful venue had left a mate of his in charge, who just happened to be the most anal and badly dressed human I have ever met. He proceeded to hold a decibel meter up to the stage during all of the bands’ sets, threatening to “throw us out” if we went above a certain level… IT’S A F**KING MUSIC VENUE!!
After a short and surprisingly well-received set (the 10 people in the venue cheered), the headline band were ‘cancelled’ during their second song for being too loud! Naturally, the night descended into drunken chaos with the pub owner’s mate being shouted at by every person in the room: “YOU TWAT!!” and other such things… The headline band, Wooderson, proceeded to beat the drum kit as loudly as possible and make as much noise as they could, making them our heroes of the night!
After retiring to Martin’s dingy excuse for a house we slept on a smelly floor littered with cigarette butts and beer cans (nice hospitality, Ipswich), hungry and generally pissed off. Well, you live and learn… NEVER go to Ipswich…

On a better note, we’re playing The Great Escape Festival/Alternative Escape in Brighton on May 16th – we would love you to be there! More news soon…

birdeatsbaby x