M2TM
On Tuesday we once
again competed in the Metal 2 the Masses competition to play
Bloodstock Open Air. And we only went and won the heat!
Last year we
got through to the finals in Preston, only thwarted at the very end
by the unstoppable brutal catchiness of Sa-Da-Ko.
This year we are
competing in our home base of Manchester and the first heat saw us
pitted against Our Fatal Legacy, Sacrament, DamageScape and Repulsive Vision, with RV scoring the runner-up position and making it through
to the semis.
Fuck a Duck! The
line-up was intense and every band put on an incredible performance.
I know for one I'll be checking all these guys out again in the
future. To be honest I don't think any of us thought for a second
that we would make it through the heat, let alone take
first place. A massive thanks to everyone who made the night possible
and to all our friends and fans that came along to support us – it
was an awesome night!
Anyway, we're
competing in the semi-finals on Tuesday 28th May, there's
a date for the calendar! Let's see if we can make it to the finals
again!
What we learnt:
- We should probably practise before big gigs like this.
- New songs have new lyrics. This means Russ has to learn them.
- Footprints fans WILL get naked.
- Whitty will fuck up if he thinks he's fucking up, even if he isn't fucking up.
- If Paul does something wrong everyone has to stare at him to make him feel small and unloved.
- Ross's arse is mesmerising.
- Ian can have two hours sleep, get drunk and play everything wrong, and no one will notice.
- Truly awful, undeserving bands, can be winners too!
Tour
Now is a crazy,
exciting and stressful time in the Custardverse. Tomorrow we embark
on our first UK tour, alongside our pals Scumface.
The amount of
planning and effort that has been put into this (especially by Mike
and Ian) is ridiculous. I certainly have a new-found respect for mid
to low-level touring bands, not only is there a lot to organise but
it's bloody expensive!
Having said that
we absolutely cannot wait to get on the road (providing the transport
all works) and kick some serious arse.
Whenever we find
ourselves with some spare time and WiFi I'll write a blog update to
log how much is going wrong and how much we all want to kill each
other.
Tour dates are
below:
FEB
Fri 22nd - Nantwich - The White Horse
Sat 23rd - Glasgow - The 13th Note
Sun 24th - Arbroath - The Millgate
Tue 26th - Preston - The Ship Inn
Wed 27th - Huddersfield - Bar 1:22
Thu 28th - London (Camden) - The Unicorn
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Fri 1st - Birmingham - Scruffy Murphy's
Sat 2nd - Manchester - Retro Bar
Sun 3rd - Eccles - Wangies (w/out Scumface)
Fri 22nd - Nantwich - The White Horse
Sat 23rd - Glasgow - The 13th Note
Sun 24th - Arbroath - The Millgate
Tue 26th - Preston - The Ship Inn
Wed 27th - Huddersfield - Bar 1:22
Thu 28th - London (Camden) - The Unicorn
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Fri 1st - Birmingham - Scruffy Murphy's
Sat 2nd - Manchester - Retro Bar
Sun 3rd - Eccles - Wangies (w/out Scumface)
New Shit
Oh and, if you
haven't noticed yet, our split EP with Scumface is now available to
download. You can get 'Gone Fisting' and 'Good Honest Scumbags' here for just £3.
The pledge was a complete success, raising £1416 to help pay for production costs and car rental for the tour. Thanks to everyone that was a part of that, we will hopefully be sending everything out before we go on tour, providing it all arrives!
For anyone that missed out on the pledge we will be selling
physical copies on tour and we also have some rather sexy shirts to
flog.
Basically wrap
your ears around our music, get your arse to a show and buy all our
lovely stuff so we can eat and drink on tour!
Fucking A.
FitC xx
