Band practice tonight, last time I had cause to say those words Le Singer (as he's taken to calling himself recently) completely failed to turn up! Arguably my fault as I hadn't heard from him as he had been off work sick the days before and so wasn't aware that we had rehearsal.

Rehearsal without Bill was hilarious. It's nice to know that if any of us were ever going to get misguided ideas about going solo there's definitely no chance of that now! Poor old Phil who's putting us on at the Green Man happened to walk in whilst we were rehearsing.

"Still alright for the gig, guys?" he asked cheerfully.

"Oh yes", we replied heartily, "Only problem is that Bill has quit. He says he's had enough of us mucking around and not being able to play his songs the way he wants and so he's quit. We're going to do the gig as a 3 piece, that's alright isn't it?"

Phil surveyed the room and saw no evidence of Bill; no guitar, no amp, nothing. He stared at us. I don't think I've ever seen anyone look so simultaneously angry and confused.

Ha ha ha!

Oh dear, we came clean in the end when it looked as though he might have a hernia if we didn't. So the rumours of me and Stu swapping instruments for him to be the new front man were unfounded. At the moment anyway...

Other news; Alex has started promoting next year's Trimi's festival so keep your eyes peeled for news. Should be some stuff in the local press around London in the next couple of weeks. You can access the site through our links page, I'll put something up on the forum as well.

Everyone knows what they're doing so I don't need to do anything.

Ciao for now y'all