Gigs And Interviews

We have three gigs coming up in the near future - March 2nd at The 12 Bar in Swindon, March 3rd at The Spring Garden Tavern in Bristol and April 12th at The Fleece in Bristol. The first and last of those are double-headers with Leatherat, who I can personally highly recommend - they'll play second at The 12 Bar and we will at The Fleece. At The Spring Garden Tavern, we'll be supported by Dark Energy. Full details here.

We're also doing an interview on GTFM Radio on Thursday, 23rd February, on Andy Fox's rock show.

Competition, T-shirts, Mugs

We have a competition for you! As the observant will have noticed, the lyrics to Hiding In Plain Sight are hidden in plain sight on page 3 of the CD booklet, within a fake newspaper article which I wrote for the purpose. When I was writing it, I made three small errors. If you'd like to play, all you have to do is e-mail us with the three mistakes. The winner (any tie and I will draw lots, all decisions of the adjudicators are final, etc.) will receive a choice of Also Eden T-Shirt or Mug (see the Shop for more details.

For those of you who haven't managed to catch us at a gig recently, we hope to see you soon - and please do grab yourself a copy of Think Of The Children!, now available directly from ourselves. The t-shirts and mugs that some of you have already spent your hard-earned on at gigs are also now available here, if you don't win the competition, of course - enjoy!

As you'll have noticed, we decided not to put the whole of the lyrics in the booklet, 'cos that just makes them nigh on impossible to read. You can find all of the lyrics on the Think Of The Children! page, and there's a complete text file of them here.

Huge thanks go out to Karla-Louise Davidson (who actually got to see us for the first time in Bilston last night) and Rianne Kolenbrander for the original sketches used in the album artwork, and to Marcel Kolenbrander of H and S for putting it all together with Rich.

"You might think the album would be heavily influenced by my recent experiences", says Rich, "but we'd actually jammed a lot of musical ideas for the album back in June and July last year, and I'd also written the bulk of the lyrics, so you might find some references in there, but it's actually mainly lyrically driven by the Benjamin Franklin quote, 'Those who would trade essential liberty for a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety' - some might even call it a concept album!"