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FIRST FLIGHTS
A couple of years ago, Alfie and I fell into a habit of writing music together as a form of entertainment for ourselves. It became a union we'd look forward to each day, emulating records we loved, using the most minimal equipment, a £15 mic, a 2012 dell laptop and a line 6 pod for everything. When the music made us laugh or smile it was complete.

Our friend Justin heard our version of Dan Nix & The Teen Sound's 'I Know', and we agreed its release as a playable vinyl postcard for his new imprint. This connected us to Shindig and Record Collector and the underbelly of recreational recreators. It ultimately turned us onto lofi magicians like The Pastels, The Television Personalities, Young Marble Giants, Beat Happening, The Clean and Marine Girls...
All-whom seemed to forge the gap between the toytown first wave psychedelia and Broadcast, all present as an underlying soundtrack to our time.

As Gina said this weekend "Hearing Young Marble Giants for first time, made me realise what you could do with your speaking voice. I realised I could do that too."

You don't have to sound like your heroes, but you do have to see like them.

Opening this cabinet of curiosities sent us on a now unbounded writing trail that has taken us to Helsinki, to Frankfurt, to Belfast and to Glasgow. It's given us the chance to break bread with our heroes like Jagz Kooner, Ben Ayres, James Endeacott, David Holmes, Mark Flunder and Julian House. People who ceaslessly create out of unbridled love.

As we realise that that raw uncompromised energy is within every one of us all, we understood our jangly beginnings have their own imperfect charm.

We promised to release something a little special to commemorate Alice headlining the 100 Club.

We've mastered the first album we put together back around February 2022 when we first started our Sonic Adventure.
Rather than rewrite the story, we've left a lot of the strangeness unchanged, from the oddly balanced drums to the scratchy guitars.
It's a naive homemade ride that's taken on its own life and that dances between firstwave 60s popsike and inadvertently a lot of the magical DIY scene.
In keeping with the mindset, we'll be releasing a very short run Cassette, and a short run of CDs via our own Imprint, Lucky Break.
All original songs written and recorded by us, and Mixed and Mastered here in Hertford. All art by us.