It's Been A While

Hello everyone,

I just noticed the last update here was months ago. I apologize for that and I promise to sort this out. I'm thinking of redesigning the site and simplifying it but at the same time making it more useful. If that's possible. I realized recently after a good chat with my friend Anna B that it doesn't make much sense to build your own social network just for a band. 

Better to really integrate the existing ones people use like Facebook and now Google+ etc. Also getting more live videos and recordings on here to make it more interesting. I'll be concentrating on that in the coming weeks

So what's changed in the world of 20lb Sounds in the last couple of months? Well, we've been practicing hard and writing some new tunes. As of now we have 11 original tunes in our set. That's not bad going and could even add up to an album, though a couple more would be nice. Most of our tunes are under 3 minutes long, we're keeping it punk and even with 11 of them there's probably only just over 30mins of music. That's enough for a punk album I suppose but I like the idea of having 12 or 13 songs and I'm sure we can manage that.

The two newest additions are titled "Bird On A Wire" and "Late In The Game". They're both pretty fast and loud, as is our way, but they also have catchy melodies and could be popular I think.

We haven't got any gigs booked at the moment and I'll be having a stern word with myself about this. People keep asking, which is a positive sign. We tried to get on a couple of summer festivals but probably didn't do enough chasing and life got in the way. Don't panic though, we'll get more gigs booked for the second half of the year and hopefully come up with some good studio recordings too.

In the meantime our music has been featured on quite a few podcasts. The guys at Cyber Unions used a excerpt of El Bubblino in their show and the good folks at This Is Not A Podcast also played Jimmy Carter. So go and check them out.

Stay tuned for some changes around here a ton more videos from the 20lb gig archive. Till then, take care :)

Dan