Long Earth

As the end of the year looms, we are excited by what 2023 holds for us. 

We started recording album 3, with a handful of basic backing tracks done and lyrics written, several more demo'd (plus draft lyrics), and a few other tracks in rough instrumental demo form. We're going to have the luxury of having to  choose what we leave off this album. Hopefully ready to release sometime in Spring, the album does have a theme, but no title as yet. 

Spring also sees us hit the road in earnest, with gigs in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Abingdon already confirmed, and other offers on the table or awaiting confirmation. We're gigging with The Emerald Dawn and Also Eden, plus we're on the same bill as the likes of Doris Brendel, Cosmograf, Zio  Ft Hayley Griffiths, Grace & Fire, Lee Abraham, Band of Rain, Trilogy, and our good friends Abel Ganz - all at Prog For Peart 2023, the annual festival in aid of the Peart family's Brain Cancer charity. 

We've also had to defer/decline a couple of brilliant festivals due to clashes with existing commitments - hopefully we'll do them in 2024. 

In the meantime, we hope to recruit some assistance, ie "friends/fans with skills" to help us out with PR, Social Media, Video/multimedia, and live sound, so if anyone wishes to throw their hat in the ring for any of these roles, please contact us. You will make as much money as we do out of it, ie nothing, but you'll see some really great bands, meet some fabulous people, and have fun along the way. Some of these roles can be done remotely if preferred, so distance needn't be an object. 

November already and what's been happening? Well, plans for our Xmas gig at the Backstage, Kinross have been scuppered by health issues within the band that are preventing us from rehearsing a live set. We hope to return there next year. However, we have been able to plan some gigs for Spring 2023 onwards, with a few festival appearances pencilled in (dates, places and other acts to be confirmed), and confirmed gigs with two fantastic prog bands; The Emerald Dawn are coming all the way from Cornwall for their first Scottish gig, and long established Welsh band Also Eden are also venturing North. Check the Shows page for details and tickets, or join our mailing list for alerts

More soon.

Martin

Well, over halfway through 22 and what's been going on?  Back in January, Renaldo decided he didn't want to play live gigs any longer, and as he was alone in this wish, we had to part company. However, we managed to fulfill our gig with Franck Carducci & the Fantastic Squad just a few weeks later, with good friend Alex Fairley standing in at short notice. Interesting to note that less than 3 months later, Franck & his wonderful band supported Sting in France and gave him a serious "follow that" challenge! 

So what have we been up to. Well, the hugely talented Mark Spragg has joined us on guitar (see Meet the Band), and writing sessions for the follow up to Once Around the Sun are well under way. So far, we have 8 songs at various stages of development: 6 have already been demo'd (of which 2 have yet to receive lyrics). We have a further 2 or 3 which we will start on after the summer holidays.  Then, we can start laying down the rhythm tracks, and build from there. We would hope that, if plans go our way, the album will ready for a Spring release. 

We have been asked if there's any way for fans to check on progress and perhaps hear some samples of the songs as they take shape. Rest assured we are working on something along these lines, and all we can say is "watch this space" in the next 5 or 6 weeks for some exciting news. 

In the meantime, here's Mark Spragg demonstrating some of his chops;