The Union Jacks

Merry Christmas everyone! And all the best for 2009! I don't have much more to say than JB did last month, so I will make this a short one.

It's just over a week to go until we are back in to the studio! The songs have been finalized, and I can say the two songs we will be recording at Leeders Farm are: "Hard Times" and a new song called "Seeing Green" – We still haven't played this one live yet! So it will be a great surprise for all of you. We all can't wait to get back behind the desk and lay these tracks down, as it's been almost a year since we were last at Leeders.

It's been a great year for us; we've had loads of shows including the Waterfront with Fortune Rookie, way back in March and Breckfest, in September, with Showaddywaddy, Hot Chocolate and Suzi Quatro. We've also had lots of radio play, and interviews, which is great publicity for us, pushing our main track for this year, Solitude Doesn't Help, out. And of course we went on tour! Barcelona was a great learning curve for us, the ups and the downs all leveled out, and I think I can safely say we all had an awesome time.

As you may well have noticed, I have started a web series on our YouTube channel, titled The Union Jacks TV (A.K.A. TUJ TV). The amount of footage, both on and off stage was piling up on my computer, so I thought it was about time I did something with it! Each episode is about 10 minutes long, and features the highlights of 2008. So far there are 3 episodes available to watch. These cover our recording at Leeders Farm at the start of the year, the Waterfront show, and then everything in between spring to summer, including James and I wrestling in Sumo suits! Episode 4 will be coming very soon, which covers Breckfest, our first festival. Soon after that I will have finished the tour video; these will be episodes 5, 6 and 7. Episode 5 features Matthew Davies-Kreye, of Funeral for a Friend, who we met in Norwich on the 3rd of November, so keep an eye out for that!

Well, I did say I was going to keep this a short one, but I guess I got carried away! Anyway, it's all exciting stuff! Now there's nothing left to say but Merry Christmas! There's a lot to come in 2009, so stay tuned!

P.s – What did everyone get for Christmas? I got some new boxers with glowing space invaders on! And some new shoes! Yay!

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