Your New Favourite Band

Factory Floor talk about being on stage and in the studio, and how the two disciplines merge creatively. Cool!

Replicas

My label-mates Replicas have a new record. It features three tracks called "The City", "Hearts Beat" and "You Disappear".

You can preorder the 7" from O Genesis now, I think you probably should.

Plug: I am appearing (Live! Live! Live)

This is me, Joseph, plugging an event at which I will be appearing. Also appearing are my friends in Replicas and Electricity In Our Homes.

The Castle Hotel, in Manchester! 3rd September!

Click on this link for more details.

Found Found Found (Miss Cosmos)

Below is a picture of me yobbing about in a pub with some fellow Essex yobs (click to see the full shot - blogger.com is useless), who comprise the group Miss Cosmos. I've talked about them before, and I'm doing it again because I met up with them recently and was reminded of how good they are. And now they have a new member who plays synth, which is nice.

NME

I featured briefly in Wednesday's edition of the New Musical Express, alongside my friends from the brilliant pop group Electricity In Our Homes. Have a look!

A mainstream press debut for little old me. Not too bad for a first try, I reckon.

September

I've two new shows booked for next month, both of which should be great fun.

The first is an O Genesis showcase in Manchester which will be at The Castle Hotel on Oldham St on 3rd September. Click here for the Facebook event.

The second is for the Replicas single launch, held in London at the Garage on 19th September. Click here to buy tickets in advance.

Duelling blogs

My first fan page has arrived. Strange, no? It's written by a girl with whom I've been corresponding since she saw me play with the Charlatans in St Helens, her name is Saffron O'Hara and you can read her blog by clicking here. Also follow her on Twitter, she's very friendly.

I am just coming out of recovery from Field Day, which was excellent but is now a bit blurry in my memory.

Currently I'm working on a new live set-up, which is yielding some interesting results; I'll post some new videos of sound/tape experiments soon.