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04/06/2008 by ville.

Yo!

Our artistes Ejectorseat and Rosalita have both been added to the XFM playlist this week. Cool. Are we hot and happening or what? Or: are our artistes hot and happening or what?

Both are out on tour, co-headlining a string of dates this month. Go see them, check out the dates at www.myspace.com/ejectorseatband or www.myspace.com/rosalitaband

You can preorder the singles:

For Ejectorseat go to

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDeta ils.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1sku=795585

For Rosalita go to

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&sku=795650

Right, plug over. Move over to more pressing matters. I bloody lost the summer season’s opening squash game to some junior player barely old enough to ride a scooter. Went down 2-0 before my mind found its way on court from wherever I’d left it earlier. Pulled one back. Then nearly got the fourth game. Had I done that, I believe I would’ve got the whole thing. But at precisely 3/4 of the way thru the fourth my mind went AWOL again. Funny thing, concentration. It goes and nothing goes.

I think I need a bigger squash bag, a manager and a better racket. That oughta do it. I need a manager with contacts in the squash industry. Someone who knows the ropes. Also, I think I need a sponsor to give me the chance I deserve….

Speaking of sport, Euro 2008 is about to start. Check out who’s song is the theme tune to the video game http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_8uHesACVTs&feature=related . Alright, it’s Ejectorseat with their song Attack! Attack! Attack!

Speaking of our artists: a funny if frustrating thing happened to Rosalita on their way to Cardiff. They were scheduled to do a session and interview with XFM Wales. Only, the station got sold last Thursday. The new owner decided that they were going to put all activity on hold until they figure out what to do next. So, the band get a call from their publicist saying there’s no interview because, really, there’s no station to go to.

Just when you think that the music business has hurt and disapponted you in every way possible, it comes up trumps again and shows you just how creative it is in thinking up new ways to do so!

OK. A more uplifting story.

We have been working with the very young (their drummer is 15!!) band Hardly Heroes these past few days. Mat took them down to our cafe for lunch. Who’s in the parking lot but Sir Paul of The Beatles. Mat waves to him to catch his eye (as you do) and Sir Paul approaches our young proteges and starts chatting! Asks all sorts of questions about the band and what’s going on. The look on the guys’ faces was undescribable, at least for a man with my literacy skills. I wonder if Sir Paul knows how much that kind of thing matters to young aspiring musicians. And does he do it because he knows or does he do it because he’s just a sincerely nice guy?

My new second favourite hobby is digging up interviews by KISS frontmen Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons. The guys are so rock’n'roll…. check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfXbMnsk0b0

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