And again and again,

Fuck me I'm tired, the long slog up to Bradford was worth it but I'm paying for living life in the fast lane! I'm going to have quite a few drinks tonight I reckon, and maybe a pizza!

Pearly news is a strange beast, it tends to scuttle in the bushes for a while and then leap out at you in a series of frenzied attacks. Which is to say we don't do much, then we do loads of things at once. Or quite close to each other.

Ooh an email!

Events calender - BORING! I never read it I don't care what other people do and I know what I'm doing.

Anyway back to ME and other stuff more related to ME. The main news in a band sense is the cancellation of the garage gig (bit of a shame but not a great surprise) and the booking of a gig at the Bull & Gate in Kentish Town to replace it. This gig will be on Saturday 19th November and promises to be a great one.
The last (and only) time we played the B&G we played with a band called Platypus who did an absoloutely appalling cover of 'All The Things She Said' by Tatu and actually managed to empty the room practically. Then they changed their image and name, won a competition to play Glastionbury and they're doing pretty well it seems. Yes, they are the Subways, named after everyone's favourite meatball sandwich!

Brilliant.

So yeah, looking forward to that one. The other thing that happened to us recently was our first ever radio interview! Cheers to Andy at RamAir in Bradford for having us on his show, hopefully he's not too pissed off with us as we did kind of take over in true pearly fashion. We also played some songs acoustically live on air which was cool if a bit weird. We played...

1) British Summertime (N18)
2) Weekend Plus
3) You are a Spark (it's a new one!)
4) Faultline

And didn't really fuck up at all that I can remember. Many thanks to Richard Halfpenny the sound engineer who managed to get us sounding better on the radio than we do in real life (pretty impressive feat if you ask me), and indeed for everyone for putting up with us and our whimsical ponderings.

What else? We're finally going to re-write our fucking biog, the one on the site has been there since fucking February 2004 so it's in bad need of a revision or two. We have quite a few ideas for the website, so keep your eyes peeled. Fair fucks we're never short of ideas and most of them never see the light of day, but I reckon we have the motivation and ability to get some quite nifty things up there soon-ish. We can't do anything to it when Stu's away, he is the website master. It is the most control he has over anything in his life I imagine!

But what do I know?

If you want to hear the radio thing we're looking at ways we can get it as a download. The thing is it's an hour long so there's probably no way we can reasonably do it, we might look at handing out copies on cd at gigs if people think it's something they would like, or we could take the songs out and get them as downloads maybe?

We need to sort out getting some downloads on the site just one of the things we're working on! Also more pictures, we've got loads of photos lying around that we'd like to share with you guys..!

Bet you can't wait for that hey? Well, I'd like to see more up there, we want to put more 'personal' things up there so people can see all the crazy things we get up to and think; "Hey they seem like a fun bunch of guys, I bet being in that band is a load of fun."

Yes it is!

Hope everyone is enjoying the calm before the christmas storm, I need to book some time off. I need to sleep!

I'll sleep tomorrow, tonight we EAT!

Katie, I think the Bob Dylan shows are all sold out, we were too slow. On the plus side it's saved us both £50 so lets go out for pizza! I'm sure you don't read this blog, if you do honk your horn...

For the record (toot toot toot) I still think Bruce should write something, but I think he's been snowed under at work at the moment, haven't heard from him for a while. Was very strange at the radio station, people were taking pictures and we were getting a drink etc, and it was like, "someone's missing, where's Bruce?" Then you remember he couldn't make it. Rubbish! The Pearly clan was meant to stick together I say. Which may lead to the odd regional gig in the months ahead for, as Bruce declared on fateful day, if you book them I shall come.

Which is kind of like Wayne's World 2. Only with better music and funnier jokes!

So yeah, everyone let me know what you think about all of this, how these things make you feel, why you think we are continuing with this madness. I sometimes feel I'm trying to get everything over and done with, get it all in quick.

The exhaustion is the thing, I've been tired before but only recently have I found myself running out of energy and collapsing. I need to slow down, but I'm not sure I can. Not sure I want to anyway.

I'd rather stop than go slow. Like waiting for rush hour to be over before you try and get home, that sort of thing. I need to take a break for a while, a real one with beds and sleeping in them not on the ground or someone's car.

Talking of cars mine is a bit poorly, it started going a bit funny half-way up the A1 on the way to Bradford so I'm not driving it at the moment til it gets looked at. It's MOT is due anyway, and the tax but I can't find the form. How do you tax a car without it?

Hey, that would be a constructive thing to find out wouldn't it? Maybe I should go check that out rather than write this junk?

Yes, I should.

Brown



PS, yesterday I wanted to say this, but thought better of it.
I'm going to have to be a different person if this is going to work
Sometimes you do, and sometimes you don't.

Dear All,

Apologies for not writing sooner, indeed many are the times I have intended, even wanted to (whisper it), but could not due to the constant, fraught nature of my life at this point in time. You can all understand I'm sure, we are all there whirling around in our own personal tempest.

It seems to me that contributions to this diary appear in rashes, in groups, in gluts (albeit it modest ones), and so as soon as a bright new entry breaks free from under the lazy crust of daily toil it is obscured by another, perhaps less relevant, entry which generally then tends to sit and collect metaphorical dust.

You see the problem I'm sure. We like to keep the blog updated, but then who reads it and wherefore? Are we wasting our time? Is this blog just making us feel bad about ourselves due to our inability to keep it reasonably current? Is it therefore intrinsically negative? Does it matter? Are all the old entries more interesting anyway?

I guess if people wanted to be entertained they'd read Stu's blog (which I heartily recommend). The thing is that we are all sprinting thorugh time and often have no more than a chance to glance at something which catches the eye. I know this is how I feel, I cannot be alone in this world of 6 billion souls.

Anyway, I think I've done quite well so far to churn out some sentences without actually saying anything. I've spent too much time around politicians recently, yes and then some more if you want to know my opinion (which isn't what I mean but that's another thing), likely you don't.

Well, me and my bunch of reprobates (the band is who I am referring to here, remember them? they are are a funny old bunch) are reasonably happy with ourselves today as we played really well last night ( I think, hard to tell when you're up there bashing away) at one of my favourite venues which is always a good thing. Makes you feel like you did something worthwhile.

I have to tell you this, as it would be churlish not to. Violence! Does it have a place in rock and roll? Most people would say so, including it has to be said the bass player from the headline band (they played after us you see) as last night he threw a tantrum (there can be no other description) because, I believe, his microphone wasn't working. This resulted in him throwing his bass on the floor and storming off stage. "It's all an act" we thought, funny but a bit tragic. We were proved wrong however when he briefly returned to the stage; a happy reunion? No, instead he punched the (female) singer in the face, resulting in her punching him back. Clearly frustrated by his inability to subdue a young woman with his fists he then threw a chair at her, prior to storming off as before. The band coped admirably I have to say, he wasn't really missed. They were one of those punk bands where you could lose either the bass player or guitarist and it doesn't really make a difference as they're both saying the same thing anyway.

Saying? sorry I mean playing there. There is a difference.

So the last time we played the Comedy (for t'was the venue) the guitarist in the headlining band got an (unintentional, I'm sure...) erection on stage whilst playing a solo in (very) tight leather trousers. This time the bass player in the headlining band threw furniture at his bandmates. Can't wait to play there again, it's only a matter of time before a band manage to blow themselves up. I wouldn't mind seeing that.

So that was the latest installment in our gigging history, well worth the entrance money if you ask me. Humble thanks to the beautiful Miss Ambrosio for gracing us with her presence at some point during the set, I for one was honoured. Apologies for getting your song wrong, but I think we recovered masterfully.

Well, I would say that, and not to point any fingers, but I really have no excuses for getting that one wrong, except not concentrating. Sorry. I feel I made up for it by sweating lots towards the end. Peering eyes and distorted faces beyond the lights watch for signs.

Hello to 'left with pictures', they were a good band, I bought a cd off them but haven't listened to it yet. Hopefully it's in my guitar case, if not then I've lost it.

In the past 3 weeks I have been to Brighton, Blackpool and Edinburgh and have had some interesting experiences in all of them. I neglected to get my palm read in Blackpool, which I bitterly regret now. To think I could have had my future revealed for the pittance that is £5. Curses. Also in Brighton, the food really could have been better. In Edinburgh oysters were excellent, as was the air.

Ok, I've lost the will to write. I just felt that it would be a good thing to do, now that feeling has passed. No doubt next time I will write something more worth reading, I hope that won't be too long into the future. Before christmas certainly.

So there you go. Bruce...?

Brown

Drummer Stu just popping by en route to my blog..

Just thought I'd say that we're working on a new song called "You Are A spark" - and I love it!

Should be ready for the garage gig - buy your cheap tickets from us now before they run out and you have to pay about £8 or something... mail us!

‘I am your failed husband contender, I’m your lone shark of bliss’

Dear All,

We hope all is well with everyone.

So yeah, the Blog rota collapsed pretty spectacularly but nevermind.. As Stu mentioned in the last Pearly mail out (join the mailing list if you want to receive them), we have all been rather busy.. however, this month sees us getting back to business. Firstly, we are kicking around a few new songs, tapes have been distributed and the cogs of the Pearly ideas factory are creaking into action. I think the new stuff is a bit different to what we have been doing and thank goodness as we have been playing a lot of the older songs for quite while. So yeah, new stuff is in the pipeline.. then we have the gig at The Comedy in Leicester Square on Tuesday 11th October which should be wicked. We have also been invited to do our first ever radio session!!! It’s for RamAir in Yorkshire and should an acoustic bit on the programme (7pm – 9pm) on 26th October, so tune in if you can, personally I can’t wait!! Oh.. what to play?.. We now have MP3s on our Myspace account (www.Myspace.com/pearlyband) be our friend etc.. I’m actually getting quite addicted to it and will probably start bombarding messages to people.. until next time.. Note to self: Write, write, write!!

See you soon hopefully.

WFA