Late summer. The light has changed. Everyone’s been adventuring and there’s a generally mellow blanket draped over Bristol – of a recovery nature actually, two days after Boomtown festival. What a mad blow out! 10 Ton Tongue were offered a gig but couldn’t make it happen, which is actually fine because I took the blow out as I found it without having to keep my head together to play. Happy days.

The next festival we’ll be playing is Off Grid this weekend and Watusi (held by the Triban posse) in early September. It’s been a fortunate turn-out of events really because we have been writing and this is always a fairly long process for us. Rick’s written an afrobeat bassline in 5′s which Jake’s translated pretty flawlessly and Bex and I have scratched our heads at all the major notes in it but found our voices within it eventually. We’re writing a ridiculously heavy punk n bass tune which I completely love, and a long mostly-intrumental tune with some fierce spoken word to finish. There is also shanti waltz brewing, as written by Jake. I’ve also written a couple of songs for guitar that may find their way into the set but not while I’m still in a plaster cast from falling out of a tree and breaking my wrist…

In other news Bex and I will be recording a duet EP soon which will be available as the gentle consort to the nearly completed album. The artwork for the album is looking so sweet – we’re just waiting to complete some legalities that have to happen at mastering stage to protect the music in the future, and then it will be there for you to download or buy as a hard copy.

Big love to all the hoopy froods. Emma x x