What a sad day it was to hear about the death of the superb sax player Jason Rae. Seriously, if you ever saw the Leeds-based Haggis Horns play live you'd know what I mean. This guy was something else on a baritone sax. My thoughts go out to the Rae family and friends. It sure makes you think twice about dabbling in drugs and who you trust for that matter. The world lost a good guy on saturday, but I hope the Haggis Horns battle on coz they rule.
Apparantly we were played on BBC Radio Leeds on Saturday Night, but we didn't know anything about it! They got hold of our Live session we did for BBC 1 Look North and played it on the Graham Liver show.
We also had a good feature in the local Yorkshire Evening News Paper with a nice big picture overlooking Leeds with Christine Boothroyd who has sponsored a CD of Leeds hottest musical exports! And we're on it! Woo!
The lovely Troubadour Quartet layed down some strings for the album this past week. It was a barrel of giggles! Henry, first fiddle, thought it would be funny to perform in just his boxers for the duration of the session. It was pretty funny, until he nearly got caught by someone that co-owns / runs the studio we've been recording in. JD drummer maestro also layed down some drums in the studio (check out his guns and his Zildjan K cymbals - very nice indeed):
We played a really good busy London gig in the Wilmington Arms in Angel a cupla weeks back. A few managers from Supervision Managment Group (who look after Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand etc.) were there scouting and one of them (Dan Moore) approached me afterwards. He liked the set and had some good pointers for future reference. Top bloke. Big shout to Kevin from KRMB management who came down and is subsequently booking us for a load of showcases, absolute legend. The chaps from Underdog management & PR also deserve a big pat on the back for putting on such a good night. Mega success all round i'd say :)
