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The curse of the Obelisk July 22 2008

So Latitude festival was alright. I’m telling you though, that stage had a curse on it. I’ve never forgotten so many lyrics in my life. But after seeing both Jonsi from Sigur Ros and Joanna Newsom suddenly stop singing in the middle of a song with that same face of total confusion I didn’t feel so bad any more.

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Video diary 6 - Latitude July 20 2008

Backstage at Latitude festival, with instruments queued up behind the main stage, a lot of smoke machine, a lot of people and matching stripey jumpers.

Mark.x

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Video diary 5 - Glastonbury July 02 2008

So, we made it back from Glastonbury – good that it was a nice sunny one for a change.

We played a small show in the Greenpeace Field, and our main show on the BBC Introducing stage in The Park… but first we had to find our way there through the middle of the festival…

Mark.x

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Video diary 4 - The Hague June 16 2008

This weekend we played at a great club in Paris, La Fleche d’Or and then travelled up to The Netherlands on Saturday morning to play at the Music In My Head festival. The trouble with only visiting a city for a day and having to soundcheck and things is that you never get any time to actually see the city. We did make some new friends though…

Mark.x

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Video diary 3 - The Harold T. Wilkins video June 08 2008

We took a trip to MTV Studios in Camden, London to make a new music video for our last single Harold T. Wilkins, involving a couple of scientists, a skateboard, paranormal activity and a lot of intimate probing…

The video is being edited together now so should be ready soon, it’s going to be good. Thanks loads to Dan and Klass and the rest of the crew!

Mark.x

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Video diary 2 - Primavera June 02 2008

Hello there!

We’ve just got back from Barcelona – Primavera Sound festival where we played on Saturday. I wish all festivals were as good as this one, though the free drink thing for bands is maybe a bit dangerous… Friday night we all stayed out to see El Guincho and the more we drank the easier it became to forget that we had to get up for sound check the next morning. El Guincho is great though and shots of coffee, vodka and red bull seemed great too at the time.

It was an amazing festival though, held by the sea in this huge wierd paved area with stone seats and big curved walls. I don’t really know what goes on there for the rest of the year, or what it was originally built for. We took advantage of our passes to watch Dinosaur Jr and Shellac from the side of the stage, and I finally got to meet 808 State after being a fan for about 18 years!