Pictures...

Well today we went and took some new promotional pictures with Megan Coghill. We went to this little place just out of town with some old ruined buildings. We got some pretty cool shots and for once, we didn't act like a bunch of kids and fight.. haha... we did that between pictures.

I stuck a couple up on our Myspace and Bebo pages (which you can access from the right hand side of this here page).

Megan, if you don't know who she is, is a very talented local photographer who has been building up a portfolio of her own over the past year and a half. She'll have a website of her very own in the not to distant future. I'll be sure to add a link to her page when that's up and running. For now, you can make do with the pictures that she's taken of us.

We're away to Edinburgh this Thursday and then to Glasgow on Friday. We've got a special guest coming away with us though... yep, we're taking... ASTROCAM! We spent some money and bought a Video Camera last week. So not only can you read about us, you're gonna be able to watch us as well. A video blog so to speak... this could get messy...

More soon, promise...

Big Gig... Hayseed Dixie etc..

Right, since I last updated the website with random ramblings, we've been busy... again!

We played the Big Gig up here in Thurso, had a fuckin great time! I think we covered everyone in that field in Astronot stickers. I've seen loads of them around Thurso since then. Good stuff. Despite the crappy weather, people turned out in force which was amazing. I'm pretty sure there was around 250-300 people there when we hit the stage.

We rattled through our set quite quickly. Stevie B must have harassed everyone in that field... even the people who I'd consider non-targets for abuse. "Stevie T is playing tomorrow... don't give him a fuckin wireless kit though" Well done Mr Bruce... we couldn't get you to shut up for almost an hour!

A week or so later, we played with bluegrass kings, Hayseed Dixie, over two nights. A bit of a bizarre support slot for us, but I think it worked. We played rock music to a rock crowd who were out to see an amazing band. They spoke some clever shit.. all above our mediocre public school educated heads, meeting them was like living in an episode of Dukes Of Hazzard. The mandolin player was the first member of Hayseed Dixie we met... "How y'all doing?"... anyone in Texas would've been proud of that... hell, I think even Fred Durst would've been so excited by the Y'all... he'd consider re-issuing the first Limp Bizkit album!! "What y'all eating? Chinese Food? Lord have mercy!!"

Darren was straight on the phone to his brother "he sounds like Dukes Of Hazzard!!!"

We didn't get to steal their moonshine however, which, as you can imagine, was slightly upsetting.

The quote of the weekend goes to the bass player(excuse my ignorance, but I forget his name)... Darren was speaking to him the day after the Thurso gig.

Bass player "we played in a town called Thurso last night..."
Darren "Yeah we were there..."
Bass player "you were there???"

Bass players... seriously...

All for now... I'll get some more stuff up soon. We've got Glasgow and Edinburgh on the 13th and 14th of September and then our first real festival appearance to prepare for...

Cheers
Jamie

First Entry...

How's it going? Good? Grand? Awesome! Well, this is the first of many posts that I plan to write about the goings on of my band Astronot.

Hopefully I'll keep this up-to-date with what we are up to when we're out and about playing, writing, recording... I think you get the point...

Anyway, if you don't know who the hell we are, and you've just stumbled upon this little blog, come on in, stick around, add this to your favourites. I'm sure there will be some interesting stories on here in the next few months.

Take a look at the bottom of the page for get a bit of info about the band and check out the links on your right for our website, myspace and bebo.

Cheers for looking...
Jamie