Battered (Fisherman Chronicles Postlude)

This month has been awesome, Ryan Adams in Oxford a couple of weeks ago, Evan Dando in Cardiff (down the road from home!) and Primus in London, I must have watched the (perfect) video for 'John The Fisherman' at least a dozen times over the last week and it is LODGED in my bonce. I think it's such a good feeling when you love artists so much that you genuinely don't care what they play when you see them live because you love it all! It's a victimless situation.

Aside from third-person (occasionally acoustic) rockage, let's go steaming into first-person blazing rock action. Well, maybe not blazing rock, but still…. Recluse (well, Tom and myself) played our first ever Recluse acoustic gig (ahem…..Reclustic) which went down well, so well in fact that we may record a vinyl only acoustic EP with reworked songs in the near future, below is the setlist we played in Globetrotters bar last weekend, the song titles are lyrics from the songs, so we could test Charchy on his Recluse knowledge….a test he FAILED getting only 2 out of 5, tut….tut. Kudos to you if you can name the songs from the cryptic setlist below!
3am
The Dirty Ground
The Devil's song
The Kindly Ones
Turpentine
Pretty Vulture Sees

With a short encore of Ryan Adams / Old Samuel Songs:
There's this girl I know
The Hardest Part
Jeanne
The Engine Running

This month is our three year anniversary as a band! Ah the days of old, recording in my old house in a room the size of a biscuit tin, with girly practise amps and an electronic drum kit that Charch battered into submission within weeks….costing me £250…yeeeessssssss. I have bought a secret gift for us all to celebrate our time together, pictures will be appearing in our next blog!

Also, I have come across a cache of pics and vids of us at various gigs on various cameras and phones flying around my flat so they will be uploaded soon.

Our backing DVD was a success at our last couple of gigs so that will be a mainstay for our shows from now on, so the crows don't have to stare at our ugly mugs for an hour.

'When I grow up I want to be
A harvester of the sea
Before all my days are done
I want to be…. a fisherman'
Primus - John The Fisherman

















(Primus Rocks)

Happy July,
Britt (the moustachioed one)

Mechanically Reformed Habits

It's been a really busy time recently at camp Recluse, the album is being mixed and a title has been decided upon, artwork is being finalised and best of all, we have struck a deal with HabitFormed Records run by the extremely enthusiastic and Rockabilly-lovin' Chris Rogers! They are a label based in mid-Wales with a roster including a band that we gigged with a few weeks ago (and got extremely drunk with at an after-show party) called Synthetica who were awesome and are about to release their own debut album through HabitFormed Records (I smell a co-headlining tour...) which I for one will be buying!

Chris is a vinyl man after our own hearts and so we may be able to get an extremely limited run of the album on vinyl, which means I finally have an excuse to get a red leather Dansette so I can listen to my recently purchased Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - Class Mythology (God Bless SpaceWolf) and Split single of Ginger (Wildhearts) and Howling Willie…so depending on how many we get made, there will be a competition soon to get a copy for free!

This has all been a real treat and revitalised the direction of the band, they share the same ideals as us and the other label mates we now have are all awesome guys who know how rock, with the album release imminent, there will be announcements of gigs and brand new merchandise soon as well as our album launch party details!

Ladies and Gentlemen, things are heating up….

'I save up all my sunny days
Rival, bring me your love'
- Recluse: Temper


Keep on keeping on
Britt

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