'Baby Jesus, born to rock!'

Howdy,

It's Le Singer dropping an entry in good Christmas spirits..

First off, cheers to everyone who came down to the Dublin Castle (possibly my favourite venue we have played in London.. it’s all about the protruding part of the stage, it just invites you to jump on..), I thought there was a good atmosphere to the place and despite an unplanned acoustic interlude (people shouldn’t bring faulty amps to gigs, especially if they are equipment sharing!) which consisted of me playing Hangman’s Hood on my own, we were pretty happy. I would have like to have played for longer, but isn’t that always the case?.. It was good to play knowing that we want to banish a few songs for a while.. so that might be the last time anyone hears a few.. I would put up pictures but the blog isn't liking it.. nevermind.

We’ve talked a lot as a band about what’s next for us and I’m really excited about this year. I will be writing absolutely shitloads of songs over Christmas to go with the other new ones that we are working on/going to be working on soon. I just love the whole process of developing a song with the band, you end up being jealous of bands that are being paid to do it. I think my lack of access to a piano might shape the new material.. the next couple of songs that I want us to work on are all quite different, and I think they all have potential to give us the proverbial ‘set selection problems’ that you want to have.. ideally we want to be like a football team with lots of internationals (Escape Trick?) and a few youth players that are playing well (You Are A Spark?) and a couple of experienced veterans (Party Trick! Ha! Ha! The John Wark of the set..). You want to be able to rock in a variety of ways I reckon, so that you can put your best team out for the big games..

I guess this will be my last post here before Christmas and new year so I would just like to say thanks to everyone who supports us in what we are doing, we love you. Be it the extended Pearly family of friends and loved ones, friends we have made through music or message boards or people we don’t know who are just into the band, you inspire us greatly so thanks.

This year we intend to get better, write and record better songs and make the Pearly machine a force to be reckoned with in order to rock as many peoples worlds as possible.. that way, all the people mentioned above will be able to wear their limited edition ‘Pearly – I knew them when they were shit’ t-shirts (Cheers Jamie again!) with pride.

Have a bitchin’ Christmas.

WFA