Out the loop but still busy

Alrightttt

So this month we have been working our bollocks off with our boy Phil Conway, demo'ing tracks that are possibly going towards our debut album. We are just beginning recording the vocals now so wont be long till we are back writing and playing shows again. Quite startings to miss it now!

Anyways, since the initial writing for our record began we have so far written 10 Tracks, of which it looks like just 5 or 6 will be going towards it. I guess we are just in the mind frame where we wanna just make our first record as special as we possibly can, so we're really trying to take a lot of time over it. I Guess just to make sure we are putting out the best we can possibly give. Blah Blah Blah...... i think you get what i mean. Anyway, we will keep you informed on here as it goes. So keep checking back if your interested ;-)


As for other News, with a lot of help from friends it looks like we will be coming back over to Europe in late Febuary. We are totally stoked and are hoping that the dudes sorting the shows out have good luck in firming everything out. If your interested in doing a date drop wtfoctopus bookings (Belgium) and Voltaire Booking (Austria) a message, both good fucking dudes and have there hearts in the right place. Myspack links bellow: -

http://www.myspace.com/wtfoctopus

http://www.myspace.com/voltairebooking

Also, we are going to be doing four shows with the awesome Take A Worm For A Walk Week (Undergroove Records) at the end of Jan 09. This we are stoked about as we have been fans for a long while as well as previous Label mates on the awesome MidMarch Records. Check em out anyway and check our page for show details!

http://www.myspace.com/takeaworm

Merch News, we are going to be getting Two new shirts printed up at the end of October. One a design we have been sitting on for a while by our boy Jonas from The Grizzley Twister over in Sweden and the 2nd by the awsome BlackSails Design over in Italy. You can check the designs bellow:-

Jonas Grizzley Twister Design

Black Sails Design Shirt
http://www.myspace.com/blacksailsdesign

Last bit, we are going to be playing with Flood Of Red in The Basement at Newcastle University in the early half of November. When your in a band, i guess theres always that one place that you always wanted to play cos of seeing all the bigger bands when you were younger etc etc......... Anyways the Basement at Newcastle University was that venue for us and we are so stoked to be playing, so big thanks to our boy Chell for putting us on. We definately owe him more than just one and please come down to make it a memourable one. If you're after tickets a couple of pounds cheaper drop us a line and we will hook you up.

Cheers for reading once again.

Martin + The Lavotchkin's

Ups and Downs

Alrighttttttt!!

So a few things have been going on this month in our camp.

Right at the start of the month we hooked up with our friends from Southampton The Fair Fight, though shock horror once again we were struck with shit luck, this time it being down to Si getting so sick he had to go to hospital. We managed to find a replacement singer or singers for the Newcastle date of the two shows we were playing, though we had to drop out of the boston show. Fucking pain and i think thats the 3rd time we have had to drop out of a show there, but driving a 5 hour round trip with a dude who barely knew the words would have sucked for everyone. (Especially the people coming to the show!) Shit happens though right?

Next bit of amazing news came not long after when we discovered we were going to have to drop out of shows we were set to be playing with friends Whitemare from Brighton, towards the end of the month. A kick in the balls like, but one of us had family issues over that period and you have to put the other important stuff first sometimes.

Anyway although we had our set backs, we did manged to fit in playing with Glasgow's awsome Take A Worm For A Walk Week and The Dead Eyes of Quint from Leeds. Both sweet bands, check them out! Also we supported Philadelphia's hardcore legends Blacklisted, where we were lucky enough to have the last 3 songs of our set recorded. This can be viewed online via the link bellow: -

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=42738557

The video contains three brand new songs which will all be featuring on our forth coming record.

1st - The Wether Effect
2nd - Abandoned
3rd - Untitled

Next up, we got our van back at last. Fully working with no problems and fingers crossed no more for a fucking long time. We have had our fair share now. However, funny story about it. So basically when our van died the 2nd time we got an emergency guy out to come and look at it. So he came, told us it was something or other (i know fuck all about vans/cars, the others do though so don't think we are clueless.) Anyway, he told us it would cost 1000 to get fixed which we thought sounded a bit crazy considering we had just had it fixed and looked over. So after much bugging a family friend we eventually got another mechanic to double check it and he says he can fix it for 75 pounds. Turns out the first guy was trying to pretty much rape us for all we were worth. So first hand advice, never trust a mechanic first off!

With the Whitemare tour cancelled and Hub going on holiday in October for 2 weeks, we have come to the desicision to spend the next months concentrating on doing our debt record a bit more than we have been. We have sessions booked in to start rough recordings with our good friend Phil for the first weekend of October, check his work out via the link bellow: -

http://www.myspace.com/philrecording

We are going to be recording 6 never before heard tracks and in total out of 9 tracks so far written for our album i think 6 of which will be going on our album. We have plans for the others though nothing is set in stone as of yet. Keep yours eyes peeled though. We are planning on having our album fully written by the end of this year and to support that unfortunately we are not going to be doing a couple of the tours we had arranged. One of them was a planned and booked trip back to Belgium, though as that stands it looks like we will be returning in Feb 09. I guess we have gotten to the point where so much shit has gone wrong this year that we would rather concentrate on writing, so we have all of our album fully ready and sorted for 2009.

As for our split with Attack Vipers which we have talked about for a long time, though due to a shit load of delays, hasn't happened yet.......... Well it looks like it could well be happening in the next couple of months. I say this all the time which is why i am not saying a date yet, though it is still coming! At last then we will have our first 7inch and we might even have an excuse to give you a small preview of the other track we record for it 'Linger On'. Although a long time coming it will still be a fucking sweet split and all the parties involved are still very much into this record happening. Joe from Attack Vipers, as i am told is constructing the art work at current and no doubt i will stick it up on here when we have it all sorted. Check Attack Vipers out!

http://www.myspace.com/attackvipers

I would give you a link to Guns not Knives records who is putting the record out though there is nothing to link to at the minute. Guns not Knives is a brand new label just about to start in the North East that will be also in October be releasing the 'Pure Graft/Beasts' split 7inch. Another good split that shouldn't be over looked, so when some stuff gets up on the internet i will link the fucker up.

I hope my Shinfo hasn't bored the fuck out of you.

Till next time.

Attack Vipers Split + Demo Re Master

Hey people! So we just got back some new Re Mastered versions of the tracks we recorded earlier this year. This being done by our good friend Jason Sanderson who has previously worked with bands such as The Plight, D Rail, Rolo Tomassi, The Legacy, The Mirimar Disaster and lots more. You can listen to Two of the Three tracks recorded on our myspace, One a rough album demo and One off our forth coming split 7inch with Southern Englands Attack Vipers. We are pretty stoked with the New Masterings and feel Jase made a positive improvement on our previous master.

Record with Jason Sanderson. Check it: - http://www.myspace.com/jasonsandersonrecordingmixmastering

Also we recorded the vocals on those tracks with our good friend Phil Conway. Check him to: -

http://www.myspace.com/philrecording

As for the Attack Vipers split, as far as i know Attack Vipers have finished recording there half and are in the mix/mastering stages now. Hopefully it shouldnt to long till we are going to press with it so keep an ear out.

If you have had your head in the sand the past few years and havnt heard Attack Vipers, do the right thing! Check them the fuck out also.

http://www.myspace.com/attackvipers

Cheers

M

Manatees/ Rapture Fest Weekend

So we played some shows with the epic Manatees from carlise this weekend just gone. Thanks to everyone who came out, did shows and lent equipment. (Especially Dean in Lincolin for helping out last minute, your a fucking dood).

In true Lavotchkin fashion, the day before we left for our shows with Manatees our van died again. Lucky us, as we just had it back for only a day and prior to that day we had spent £1500 getting a new engine put in it. Soooooo as you can imagin we were TOTALLY fucking stoked and even more happy to find it was a fully different part that had broken as well. Just our fucking luck! On the other side though, we're believers in what doesnt kill you makes you stronger n all that. So once again we are just gunna get the fuck on with things and hope it doesnt take to long to get our van back. Again thanks to everyone who helped us out with equipment over the weekend! Especially the Manatees guys. We owe you one! Van windge over anyways................... till it dies again at least ;-)

All in all, It was really one of those weekends where you catch up with so many people all at once that its all a little hard to keep up. Fucking sweet though dont get me wrong and Props to everyone that hung out at Rapture fest. Saw some faces that i really dont see enough!

Anyway, we managed to stop by

Bolton, on the 8th aug
Lincolin, on the 9th aug
Rapture Fest in Reading, on the 10th aug

We managed to play and catch up with the following awsome bands as well!

Manatees
Lakes
The Fair Fight
Bossk
D rail
Brides
Omerta

If you have got some time check all those bands out. There all good shit, good guys and deserve the support.
If i get some more photos from the weekend i will add to the couple that are already up.

Cheers

Martin

Summer Lavotchkin/ Crocus/ Hitcher Tour

Hey so we just came back from doing some shows with our friends Crocus (Cornwall) and Hitcher (Edinburgh).


30th July - Leeds @ House show!
31st July - Newcastle @ The End
1st August - Dundee @ Balcony Bar
2nd August - Edinburgh @ The Hive
3rd August - Glasgow @ O'Henry's


High lights:

+ Partying big style in Dundee
+ Shows in houses
+ Police not breaking up shows in houses
+ Yeh bio, you, proper, wasson
+ Glasgow market
+ Si lavotchkin saving Tom Crocus's from a Scum charv beating
+ Drink and Drugs


Low Lights

+ Weather
+ Our van dying just after getting it back from the garage
+ Hangovers/ Come downs
+ Bags of sick
+ 10pm off licence curfews
+ Having to work all day and travel to shows


We had a sick time and as a result we have been invite to do a second short tour with Crocus in December as well as possibly something else special for early next year.


Heres some pictures from the shows: