This afternoon I'm off back to England, so I thought this would be a good time to round things up. I'm going back for a few days to celebrate birthday and see a few friends, then Katie and I are going to Germany for a few weeks on a road-trip. Should be fun!

The tour planned for the end of september is more or less finalised with 2/3 dates still to be booked. So if you live in London or Paris and you want to help us get these final dates I'd appreciate that more than you know.

I've spent the last couple of days getting the flat into shape; there's nothing worse than coming back to a dirty flat. Wow. Wouldn't have caught me saying that a few years ago. It didn't help that last night I went out with the boys in the band. We arrived at the Frog at 18h and proceeded to buy happy hour cocktails by a convoluted game involving throwing darts at random numbers. So by about 20h everyone had imbibed rum, gin, vodka, tequila, triple sec cachaca, beer, wine etc. The barman thought it was his lucky day and started giving us free shots as well. We rounded the night off in another bar with some Guinness, so you can only imagine how great I felt at 4 am when I woke up on the couch fully clothed. Mmmm.

Anyway, everything's sorted more or less. Neighbours are kindly watering plants etc. Woot.

I just need to finish packing and get out the flat now. Am instead listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs whilst updating my blog. Hmm.

Bye! and check out the band's myspace (http://www.myspace.com/beautifullunarlandscape) to see if you can make it to one of the gigs on the tour. Check back as there'll be more dates added.

Love ben x