A Morning Lewis Sky...

On our way up north today, what's the best cure for a hangover. Played in Coda music shop yesterday in Edinburgh, they were too kind to us! Great shop, great people..

a Lewis Winter....

we met yesterday to talk through the plan for the Weather Journals album release. We'll hopefully know in the next few weeks, we're excited by it all. We have started a myspace page for it here: www.myspace.com/theweatherjournals......

'Submarine'
As we lay on opposite walls of the old stone ruin we watched the moor rush beneath the cover of night. The aging grass had climbed over half way up the wall and reaching down I pulled the top of a bulrush, putting it between my teeth like a toothpick.
It was June when we first found the ruin but in the sheer darkness that surrounded us it was hard to believe in the brightness of that memory. The open sky looked like our closed eyes, as though the island had been dipped in an inkwell and stitched into the thick cloud with a black thread.
‘A Lewis winter’s like being on a submarine, isn’t it’ She said. ‘As you disappear beneath the surface an overwhelming darkness begins to bear down on you, growing more intense the deeper you go. And then, when you’re completely submerged it seems impossible that the sun can be shining somewhere else at the same time. It’s complete claustrophobia.’
‘I don’t see it like that,’ I said, holding the bulrush a few inches from my face. ‘I think it’s more like putting on a different pair of glasses. Once your eyes have adjusted you’re able to see things you would otherwise have missed. In a way, I suppose it is like being on a submarine,’ I said, leading her down from the wall and into the night, ‘when you’ve learnt to find your way in total darkness you will never get lost.’

English Dates...

Thanks to everyone who came to see us play over the last few dates in England, we had much fun and met some great folks! We played at the opening of a new venue in Huddersfield called The Peacock Lounge, a great wee old style venue. It was like stepping into somewhere in Chicago in the 1920s. If you are around that area any Wednesday night they will be showing old movies, so dress up like a gangster and get yourself down there. We also sampled some nice local beers in a few nice local pubs while we were there, even ended up in a bar like the one from the film 'Police Academy' - the blue oyster bar! Thankfully Tony had taken off the dress by that point! We may of never seen him again!

new music...

Hello....We're going to try and blog here most days with pics attached, it maybe odd at times but hopefully always enjoyable! This place was getting kinda quiet so it'll hopefully be a hive of randomness!!:)

We're just back from London where we've finished recording not one but 2 new albums. The first is the follow up to 'Ghosts & Heights', we'll be mixing this in the next month or so.. the tracklisting looks something like this:
1) the may star
2) firelight
3) 1000 days
4) go home child
5) planets & thrills
6) the rainbow clown
7) chewing gum in your hair
8) wasting time
9) you stole my life
10) wasted on you
11) circles
12) threw my life on her
13) the water enfolds
14) same door
15) i know

The 2nd is a record i've been working on for a few years with writer/poet Daibhidh Martin, it's called 'The Weather Journals'...
1- winter part 1
2- the crooked tree
3- taketori
4- season waits
5- waterfalls
6- their house
7- smiley riley
8- submarine
9- you are the only one
10- ghost
11- in this darkness
12- she said she’d follow me
13- hold me
14- height of summer
15- snow in june

We're not sure when these will be released but you'll be the first to know...We head to England tmrw for a couple of gigs but we'll try and keep this going while we are away..

xxx

p.s.
(The May Star)
Gonna lie under the street lights now
Will you watch with me
Playing the game where the winner dies
It might just be me
First to move he's to shout
Things he couldn't say
First to see the May Star now
Forever gets to stay


(words- iain, pics-ali)