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  Hello compadres near and far, and welcome to the September issue of the Four Blokes Newsletter™️ !!!! Summer has faded to autumn, and sunset-coloured tree-lined avenues hate to see a thoughtful young man such as I coming... What's in store for you this month? The low-down on my (and thus Four Blokes') recent move to London, early efforts to recruit members for a London-based lineup, juicy details of the two recording sessions that took place this month, and a cliffhanger ending... let's begin. As a small aside, I got round to uploading our debut album on YouTube which means all our music is now avaliable completely for free! Not much on our account at the moment apart from some old gig footage and a music video for One of A Kind but watch this space - things are soon coming! Speaking of music videos, I filmed a little clip for our next single; the idea was a multi-camera setup of a mimed performance, but as I only had 1 camera I had to mime the song 6 times. Dim lighting ...

Kind wishes to all - that's how I wish to kick off the August edition of the Four Blokes Newsletter! Kind wishes to all of you. Apart from a few asides, this month's newsletter will primarily focus on the band's concert appearance at the Stage Door. Enclosed within, an exclusive window into rehearsals, backstage refreshment, and the chaos that ensued during our performance. The situation on August 1st was less than ideal - the singular rehearsal for the concert was a complete shill due to lost and damaged equipment. Conditions were SUBPAR! Despite the winds blowing with the tide of time, I went up to the shed with a few Superking silvers and wrote a Sitar riff for Thistle using the notes of the Indian scale. At the end of last year I wrote a sort of poem about the relationship between suffering and loss and identity - first through the lens of plant life and then famous creatives from the 19th and 20th centuries. What sky would a content Van Gogh have painted? What novel wo...

Alreet lads n' lasses! There's two sides to everystory, you know - this much is true of the month in review. There's a part of me that believes the long-awaited LP release alone makes this an all-timer... it's not every month you release your DEBUT ALBUM! Add onto that the next gig booked and announced and you have yourself a fantastic four weeks for Four Blokes. However.. the pessimist within argues that we hardly REALLY did anything at all this month - all that REALLY happened is the Tiago mastered the last 2 tracks, I emailed some venues, and we hit "upload" on some songs... an accurate assessment of July is probably somewhere between those 2. Right - I'm already waffling and we haven't even got past the opening paragraph. Enclosed within this new edition of "The Four Blokes Newsletter" you will find a BUMPER SPECIAL FEATURE ARTICLE on the album, with a few short pieces on "the art of the deal" and "a disasteous return to re...