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At last! I've finally managed to find the time to update the lyrics section of the site!

Just click on a song title over there on the right, and the lyrics for that song will magically appear on the screen.

just uploaded a song onto our myspace page, recorded at our recent house gig.

www.myspace.com/sugardrum

please feel free to listen, download and hopefully enjoy its unplugged and acoustic raw loveliness...

Yay!, we've got a shiny new site.

We'll be adding some more things to it as soon as time allows.

Quick! click on things and scroll the page up and down... or whatever it is you crazy people do on websites :)

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we've not got many gigs planned for the foreseeable future as we've got to dedicate some time to recording some of the many songs that have been developing over the last few months.

The festival season this year has so far been great, especially Glastonbury.

We'll still be doing the odd gig here and there so keep checking this website or our myspace for any updates.

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I've just uploaded a video of Are We There Yet? recorded at the wupadupa String Thing on 22nd Sep 2007.

We've had a review of both of our EP's by those lovely people at losing today magazine.

’Absence of friends’ the title track is without doubt the jewel in the crown, flighty pastoral florets, vocals a la Tim Buckley and a stately fragile persona make this a touching gem in the making, the shy eyed undulating craftsmanship giving way to the sumptuous moments of flowering vibrancy of the beautifully conceived bouquets of Nick Drake like thoughtfulness.

Oops! just realised I haven’t updated my blog in 7 and a half months! You turn your back to do some washing up and make a sandwich and next you know over half a year has passed, there’s a new mayor and winter is just a distant snowy memory.

It seems like only yesterday that I was babbling on about the Amnesty Festival, cheese, house gigs and the future of the bic biro in modern society.

During that time many things have happened in the world of sugardrum - new band members, new songs, a new band that I’ve joined, new homes, new jobs etc...

So, the Amnesty Festival is over for another year, over £3000 was raised for Amnesty International and it was a huge success due to the combined effort of everyone involved.

One of my most favourite moments was the wupadupa house gig. This wasn’t really advertised at all as it wasn’t raising any money for Amnesty International and there was a limit as to how many people we could cram into our living room. Betty and I did a set, followed by the lovely ladies from My Electric Cardigan, then Jono McCleery and his mate who turned up to our house with a Double Bass which Jono jammed on on a couple of my tunes, then finally Ted Humphries rounded off the evening.

Solidsilence have a recording of "no more said" from a solo gig I did at the Small World Festival way back in May.

It was recorded using a pair of magical in ear microphones / headphones... er let's call them "headiclymirophonical sound wotsits", that allow the wearer to capture the whole atmosphere of the venue whilst still enjoying the performance going on.

I'm taking part in the Londodn to Brighton Bike ride tomorrow. If you feel the urge to sponsor me, however small that urge might be then don't fight that urge as it's probably a nice friendly urge but instead, go along with it, following it's happy glow to the following website where your urge and you can site down together and donate some money. You and your urge can them site down and relax with a nice cup of tea and a jam scone.

Went to one of the Teenage Cancer trust gigs at the Albert Hall last week. It was the one with Noel Fielding from the mighty Boosh and Russell Brand hosting an evening of comedians doing their thang. People say that musicians are brave getting up on stage performing in front of an audience but I reckon Comedians are far braver.

t's funny how we sometimes find ourselves unable for whatever reason of telling someone that what they are doing is affecting us in some way, for better or worse.

There's a man in my street who delivers newspapers every morning in his estate car, driving from house to house, leaving the engine running as he gets out and carries a single newspaper to a house, before getting back in the car and driving a few yards to the next house. I want to say something, ask him has he considered the craziness of what he's doing. But something always stops me.. usually because I'm late for work... but I also wonder that maybe there's some logical reason, apart from sheer laziness and disregard for the environment, for what he's doing. Some logic behind this madness... and by the time I've finished wondering this I've already walked past him and beyond the point of being able to say something without missing my train.

Just got back from Marthas gig. Pretty amazing it was too.

The toilets at the Scala were a bit strange. Upon opening the door to the corridor leading to them you are immediately blinded loads of incredibly bright UV lighting. Felt a bit like a cross between a David Lynch movie and a Kebab shop.

Got a lift back in the tour bus which was nice, although it took us a while to realise that people weren't waving back at us as they couldn't see us waving at them through the stylish blacked-out windows . ;)
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I noticed something about my old alarm clock this morning. It's not very friendly.

I've had it since I was about 10 years old, it's one of those old digital ones with a wood style plastic covering and bright red digital lettering and a few brown buttons adorning the top. I usually use my mobile as an alarm clock, then the old brown digital thing goes off a few minutes later as a back up. This morning the mobile started doing it's sweet chirping sound as if to say "here's a nice gentle sound to lull you from your sleep, now please wake up". The chirping gradually gets louder and louder but remains quite pleasant, even if it does get extremely loud after 30secs or so.

we have a new ep for sale. it costs just one whole shiny pound coin and is only available at gigs for the moment until I get around to adding it to the wupadupa shop.

tracks on the ep are,
rainglow, 1 of 1, aunt agony and easily pleased.

Beth and I will be playing at the Small World Festy down in Headcorn, Kent this coming weekend so maybe see some of you there!

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