Photo shoot?

Nah. Typical rehearsal. 

They tried to steal our wheels

It's true, but thankfully a friendly neighbour scared off some yobs who were trying to dismantle the wheels from our beloved van. Poor thing.

In other news, we've moved up the "naked in front of your mother" google search list from number 20 to number 17. (Although this is now with the post I posted last week.) Well done everybody, let's keep it going!

Server move and more facts about the Subsource website

Hurrah, the website has been moved onto a different server. This probably doesn't mean shit to most of you reading, but I digress - and I'm ashamed to admit that we've moved away from a small friendly service with emphasis on customer service to a big corporation who would probably rather eat their grandmothers than actually talk to a customer with a problem. Anyway, it's cheaper and we needed more bandwidth.

I figured it was time to look nostalgically over the weblogs from since when the site first went up, and here's some Subsource site trivia knowledge for you:

1. Neil's interview is the least accessed, with Stuey's and mine exactly equal at 209.

2. 66% of our hits were from the US. 25% were from the UK.

3. Despite only having signed up for a couple of weeks ago, Myspace has given us almost as many referrals as Google. We had one referral from our irrelevant commercial local radio station, 964eagle.co.uk and one from adultactioncam.com.

4. After "Subsource", the most common single search words used that resulted in a hit on the site were, "drum", "bass", "live" and then "muff".

THREE people managed to access the Subsource site after searching for, "keanu reeve's role in the matrix". They were all American.

One person stumbled across the site after searching for, "oasis cover bands". They left after 3 seconds.

Finally, one was looking for, "naked in front of your mother". Now I've just been to the Google site and I don't think we're high up enough for that search so I urge anyone actually reading this to go to Google now, and search for "naked in front of your mother". (With quotation marks.) At time of writing, we're at the bottom of the second page. If we get enough hits on that link, we'll soon start climbing... I'll be giving frequent updates on this.

I really ought to spend more time writing music, I know. 

Ugly van pt.2

I forgot to post this pic... it's of Stuey getting bollocked about the beloved Subsource van being an eyesore and about how it's blocking one's view of the beautiful petunia patch. Needless to say, the rest of us thought it best if we just took photos of the incident from a distant vantage point. 

Outrage

Oh yeah, I noticed halfway through the set that somebody had decided my piano would make a good ashtray. What's the world coming to? 

Happy New Year!

The van made its maiden voyage to the Ginglik for New Years... and well, it was pretty full-on.. Thanks loads to Colin and Tammi who did a great job seeing that everybody had a great time.

We were straight off to The Arches for our second gig of the year but unfortunately due to mishaps, there was no mixing desk for us to plug into so we went home after grabbing an absolutely awesome round of free cheeseburgers and coffee from the host. We stood around for a bit admiring the topless/vest-clad/cowboy-hat-tootin' fellers heading in/out of the club and headed home.

The Subsource van has got this tendency to continue accelerating after you've taken your foot off the pedal... other than that, it's actually pretty fun, especially when the six other passengers don't see the near misses. Looking forward to piloting the Subsource tank, hydrofoil and harrier jump jet when the budget allows.