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At long last the 7 new songs we recorded last year are out as a FREE download on! Woop Woop, as they say. 'THE NIGHT'S BEEN YOUNG' was recorded on 1 inch tape at Greenmount Studio's in Wakefield by Jamie Lockehart of the wonderful act Mi Mye. It is released through Pay For The Piano Records (run by Henry Dartz!) and has lovely artwork by Frances Bickerdike. Those of you who saw us over the last few years will probably recognise most of the songs; some are a bit louder than the numbers of old and we really like it.

We started as just Rob and Matt and did an EP on Subjugation rec's in 2001. It was recorded by my Dad in my Mum and Dad's spare room and Steve Lamacq played it on the Evening Session. That's like being played by Zane Lowe today, which seems quite implausible. We were almost living together at this point (not in the biblical sense) and we used to drink in Leeds in the daytime and people in fancy clothes shops didn't really know what to make of us but still took our money. We toured with Stapleton and the EP went unthinkably well so in 2003 we recorded an album and got Jarv and Parkes (and Chris Charlton for a bit) in to add a bit of variety to the record. About this time we paid an old lady £20 to sew little Nathaniel Green name tags onto 200 t-shirts we'd had printed, I feel a bit bad about that. The album, entitled 'Same Time Tomorrow', came out on Firefly Recordings and was also released in Norway on Sellout! Music to surprisingly good reviews. Rock Sound proclaimed it to be ". . . one of the releases of the year" which was nice if a touch over the top. We toured the UK with Koufax, then Norway with Ken Ishak and played the Sant Feliu Festival in Spain, where we were given access to a free beer pump; this was a standout moment in both our lives. We also played a gig in Southend put on by a 17 year old who kept texting me things like 'everyone is super-excited about you guys coming down', which I doubted very much. When we got there it turned out to be true and the gig was one of the best we've ever done. The young man turned out to be called Sam and he played too performing as Get Cape Wear Cape Fly for only the second time. It would be good to have some hilarious anecdote about him being rubbish and us telling him to give it up but he wasn't and we didn't. You can buy Same Time Tomorrow from us if you want, message me and I'll think of an old fashioned way to do it. It's not on iTunes cus it wasn't invented then.

In 2006 we released a single on the Alcopop! label. You can listen to it above - it's called 'Old Folks/Young Folks'. You can buy it on a pretty smart 3" CD by clicking the link below or at iTunes because apparently that's the done thing these days.

YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON ONE OF THESE LITTLE BEAUTIES BY CLICKING THE 'PURCHACE' BUTTON!

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Along the way we've toured and played with some lovely acts - Stapleton, Koufax, Pylon, Ken Ishak, Ted Leo, William E Whitmore, Chuck Regan, Milloy, Dugong, Copperpot Journals, Spy V's Spy, Get Cape and tonnes more. Over the last few years we've spent more and more time at work, decorating houses and generally not living the rock and roll dream and so we did a last little tour with Stapleton in July 2008 and called it a day. We recorded the remaining seven songs we had later that summer and these will be released shortly on Pay for the Piano Records. Matty and I can now be found performing solo sets in the Wakefield and Leeds branches of B&Q every Sunday from now until eternity.

We made a video for 'Old folks/Young folks' which features us driving around Norway and . . . well some more of us driving around Norway. . .

Here's a video for the song 'Mort a la Bete' from the album Same Time Tomorrow. It feature's us walking round Wakefield singing to ourselves like mad men before returning home to find some roughians have broken in set up some drums.