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May Newsletter

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¡Hola muchachos y muchachas! It's nice to correspond with you once more, another addition of the monthly newsletter, this time concerning "May". The boys have been hard at work, in their endeavour to make new hit records - but to little avail... find inclosed all the latest news on Shite and Arse Ltd recording artists Four Blokes. Throughout the month I have been pursuing the next gig - members of the current lineup have all extended their loan spell, believing a massive improvement on the previous performance is possible. I have not recieved a single response from any venue or booking agent, EXCEPT this email: God forbid a man strum! No room at the inn for strummers... maybe in a few months when the tide changes and he has too many string quartets you'll see Four Blokes in the big smoke. I sincerely hope we can get something booked in soon simply because I love playing live. Swim and sleep like a shark 🦈  I also celebrated my 20th birthday - felt sad and weird to be...

April Newsletter

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  April - a smasheroo month for the Blokes, and thus a bumper monthly newsletter! Featuring a larger selection of full-colour photographs then ever... and all the secret stories that form each thread of ours lives. The moments in between... April fools came a day late as I foolishly fractured my pinkie finger - clearly it was a minor bc 3 days later I ran a 3:17 at the Southampton marathon - sorted. The lads got back together and continued to develop new songs for the setlist - this time math rock waltz "Heaven's Co-ordinates" began to take shape. A few days later Tiago climbed the stepladder to success, and over coffee we discuss Hegalian dialecticals - rehearsal finished 5 minutes early as a pot of tuna chunks 2 miles away was boiling. We also had at "Not Worth Hearing" and got a pretty decent new arrangement off the ground but for morale reasons it has been shelved, for the time being. "Watch the changes".. "jazz". I went round with a tote...