All I Know is that the office is getting crowded

It's been a while again! I've been busy and away and lazy. I went to visit friends and family in Finland in the beginning of June and straight from there I flew to sunny Spain for a friend's wedding. It was absolutely lovely!

First dance in action. My camera is awesome.

Last week I made a comeback to work to find that we have about a million new interns! They all are apparently mostly doing social media stuff, one of them is taking care of new releases and I'm still doing newsletters and press releases and bugging media people. All is well.

I do like that we now have new blood around here. Sometimes the office can get a bit quiet if all the other interns, who mostly are here 2 days a week, are gone. Now with this many new people I'm assuming such a day will never be again! At the moment most of them are quite scared and quiet but that should change once we get to know each other more.

Then I got hit by some annoying stomach flu and was out of the game for the better part of three days (and the previous weekend). The longest stomach upset ever! I was on a solid diet of yoghurt, bananas, white rice, coconut water and peppermint tea for about three days. Yum. When I felt well enough to have tasty food again I nearly went on a binge and made myself sick again (that was the plan) but ended up in a pub eating a sandwich and sipping wine. All went better than expected!

Now that I'm back in action we've been busy busy bees with promotion campaigns for a single 'All I Know' by iremembertapes. They're like the lovechild of Scissor Sisters and Joy Division. Makes me wanna boogie. As of yesterday (Thursday June 28) morning the track has been available on iTunes and other platforms worldwide! Get on it!

The Animal Farm Club Night

The Animal Farm Club Night happened last night at the fabulous Zigfrid von Underbelly of Hoxton Square. It was a night of fantastic music, good wine and great company! I don't have photos (still happened!) because my camera battery is dead and my adapter for the plug is temperamental and refuses to work. Also because I'm lazy and haven't bothered to buy a new charger with an English plug. But YouTube has videos.

The first band to take the stage was The Counterpoints; new band from Reading releasing their first single April 30th. That's an exciting release as we're releasing five songs from five bands on the same day as a collaborative effort on everyone's part. Their music was good but stage presence is something they still need to work on a lot which isn't surprising for a new band; no one is born a master. Warning: the following song will get stuck in your head. That's an earworm if I ever heard one.

Next up was Red N Pink, two loud chicks from London town. To be honest, I didn't like them too much before. I thought they were a bit in-your-face trying too hard to be tough and cool. But seeing them live has now changed my opinion completely! They sounded great, were very comfortable on stage, interacted with the audience well and delivered a good show overall.

Then it was Violet Bones' turn. As always (she says based on two shows) they were fantastic! I liked them a lot last time but now that I have their album on my iPod and know all the songs, it was ever better. They have awesome energy, fun! The album is a great exercise soundtrack! Those kettlebells are getting it! Although it feels slightly wrong to be swinging them around while my iPod is blasting "let's get drunk and stay that way forever!" into my ears.

Wrapping up the night we had iremembertapes. and their fun electro-indie set and slightly homosexual dancing. We went to see them in St Albans the night before; a gig where no one in the audience remembers tapes. That was enjoyable despite some technical difficulties but last night was about 127 times better! They should definitely play more dancey clubs instead of standard rock gig venues; places where people will actually move their tush instead of standing and watching in admiration (to be fair, they're nice to look at). They're touring atm, coming back to London on Monday. Check out the website or this picture for all dates and go to a show! Here's their 80's influenced (as opposed to everything else) latest single 'All I Know'.

And here's a bonus tribute to some band who also played at St Albans and whose lead man reminded me of Corey Hart. The fact that I know Corey Hart and this song so well that random people remind me of it is probably a sign that I need to stop watching VH1's I Love The 80's. Then again, nah.