Drive Well, Sleep Carefully

Hello Friends,

I am writing to you from my bedroom after my first full day off from the studio, i have caught up on some reading, organised some flights and other things for tour and am feeling very productive hence the blog update!!!

STUDIO - we are NEARLY finished, everything is coming together amazingly the more that gets finished the more excited we get, there are some definite surprises on this record that i hope you will all enjoy and i think we have summed up the last year of our lives quite nicely. I start tracking vocals again on Wednesday and then mixing Thursday and Friday and then thats it! So i am feeling very thankful that we are coming to an end to all this madness. This record has been ridiculous amounts of work but it will all be worth it we all have empty pockets but everyone is stoked to show you all these new songs.

TOUR - we are currently cramming practices in between studio time to get ready for our up coming tour with Kenny Vasoli, from being a kid listening to Drive Thru bands to actually touring with someone we all greatly respect and someone who we have listened to for years is something we havent quite wrapped our heads around yet but as usual as soon as tour starts i will be letting you know how the tour is and probably how many times ive made an ass of myself geeking out and telling Kenny how amazing i think he is. Stay posted.

On that note i will leave you but a friend of ours Andy Ratcliffe was nice enough to send me some photos he has taken while being out on the road with us over the last year and a half and also some photos from us in the studio so im gonna post them below.
MAKE SURE YOU ALL GET YOUR TICKETS FOR TOUR!!!!!
Cheers,
Brett

Golden Days.

Hey Guys,

I am writing to you from the studio where i have had too much caffeine and not enough food so if this gets a little weird my apologies are in advance.

We have just finished another drum track and im about to get up off this couch and start singing, my voice feels good, thanks for asking.

500 days of summer was great, highly reccomend it, still listening to the damnwells every five seconds and asking myself why i dont write songs this good hahaha.

We are taking quite a bit of video footage while we are here in the studio so hopefully we can edit it all together into something nice for you to all check out.

Ok im writing cos im procrastinating i better go do something productive.

Bretty

Somewhere between nothing and something is everything.

So i was pretty excited to see im not talking to myself!! hahahaha thank you for all your emails they were most welcome. I am about to head out the door to go to Far's house to work on another new song, we finished one off yesterday which we are pretty happy with, on the odd occasion alcohol will cure writers block, not always, but sometimes it will.

I have been listening to The Damnwells - One Last Century, its really really good. Suits the warmer weather we are having here in Sydney you can get it for free at their website www.thedamnwells.com so you dont have to feel guilty for ripping it somewhere else. Give it a shot, especially Bastards of Midnight, Dandelion and Everything, so good.

I am heading out to see 500 days of summer tonight and hopefully it will set the tone for a good summer, or maybe im relying on that too much? haha ill let you know what i think.

Cant believe there is still a month till tour, been waiting forever.

Bretty x

I've been waiting.

Hello there,

So its been a while (do i start every post like this cos i feel like i do?) and i have no idea if anyone reads this thing, if im talking to myself at least i have something to read later so i know what i got up to right?

Anyway recording is getting there still we start again on the 13th of September for the last run of recording so we are busy getting last minute songs finished and i am frantically pushing myself to pump out lyrics at breakneck speed. I feel like this record is going to be something we are all going to be super proud of, its been a fucking crazy struggle and a massive uphill battle for everyone involved but i guess thats gonna make it all the more an accomplishment when we finish. The last year has been a tough one for everyone involved in this record and i believe that shows in the songs and i think that gives it more merit, its not so easy to write songs when everything is awesome right? right.

So if you are one of those people who reads this and checks it i can tell you that our first single is going to be a song called "Believer" and it will find your ears in the next 2 months, we will be shooting a video for it in the coming weeks so we will keep you updated as to when you can check that out.

Also speaking of videos our video for "A Curse, A Calling" has made its way onto the internet so if you search youtube you can check that out.

Other than that we are just super anxious to get this recording done cos when that is done we can get excited about showing you all.

oh and go get your hands on the new Owen album "new leaves" cos its great.

Later,

Bretty

PS If you actually read this send me an email im kinda curious brettislaub@gmail.com xo.