Well, maybe nothing so grandiose, but I figured there should be some kind of update on the site as we now have this glorious WordPress engine allowing me to spit my tiny thoughts onto the website any time I get drunk enough.

So, a fairly big update:

We finally got the new site together (you’re reading the fucker).

There’s a hell of a lot to fill in because this new framework lets us put EVERYTHING that we have available online, properly (lyrics, mp3s, videos, outtakes, etc).

It’s been a long time coming, the last one was pretty much End of an Error -era (ouch, that scans badly), and was diligently run by our erstwhile axe-meister Jase before we parted ways. Truth be told, I’m not sufficiently skilled in website crafting to make a new one, so while I focussed on writing new material, the old site got old quickly.

The shiny new site is a much-appreciated gift from Bob at Line-Out Records.

Go there. Buy our albums. Or maybe hire the man for some website design at Shinytastic.com – he’s an absolute legend (and the man responsible for putting out End of an Error).

The band has thinned out and hit a nadir in terms of the live experience. A while back, we parted with Jase, our long-standing guitarist of legend, and last year, Phil, another founding member and the most bad-ass drummer in the known universe had some excellent career opportunities and hung up his sticks, leaving me and Adam holding the fort and purveying the filth.

Bastards, both of them.

This has effectively stopped us gigging – we played a few awesome nights last year with me on guitar, but finally dropping down to two men left us in the situation of becoming one of those bands with two blokes and a laptop, and we always said that if we were going to play live, we were going to make it something bigger and better and more than the purely-electronic studio-experience of our demos.

Adam, thankfully, and god bless him, remains as the bassist that moves mountains (and trousers), as you can hear on one of our newer tracks, Buddhabox. Only he is immune to my continued attempts at self-sabotage and creative alcoholic suicide.

We did manage a DeathBoy-All-Stars collaboration gig supporting Tricky last year at the De La War Pavillion, which was an absolute dream for me (Tricky is one of my major influences and gods), but while we borrowed Phil out of retirement and had Ben from Earth Loop Recall / This is Radio Silence and Lee Chaos of Chaos Engine to help us pull it off, it was never built to last.

In the approximate mean time (of the last few years – since EoaE), I had a kid and found someone wonderful I wanted to marry. The music continued, but we still had no ability to play live – and sometimes, real life rightfully gets in the way of dirty industrial hijinks.

On a disappointing front, despite prior arrangements, I wasn’t able to fulfil my obligations to the excellent AlterRed, so while hopefully, some of my mixes will make it to the final cut, I’m no longer slated to produce their forthcoming album. That does mean, however,  that I’m freed up to complete CogRock, look to the next commercial album and look into making us a gigging band again.

We’ve just had an interview in Regen (hi, anyone who’s come across from there!) and have been assured that as soon as we’re back in giggable formation, we’ve got some tasty gigs up and down the UK available to us.

End of an Error is also being distributed by the fine people at FiXT, as well as being available via Line Out Records and on iTunes and Amazon. It’s still one of the finest pieces of work we’ve put together so far, if you like what we do, please do consider picking up a copy. Our first ever commercial release, Music To Crash Cars To should also be being distributed via FiXT in the very near future. If you don’t fancy shelling out, our music pages give you a fine and indeed fucking enormous library of freely available DeathBoy music. Take a look.

In the short term, my first goal is to complete CogRock, next we’re going to pick out the new live set and recruit some bodies to make sure we can kick arse when we take to the stage again (toward the end of 2009), around the same time, we’ll be working on a new commercial release.

We’ll also be filling this fucking gaping maw of a website with EVERYTHING WE HAVE, all the music links, all the lyrics, everything, but by fuck, there’s a lot of them, and it’s taking some time. Bear with us.

If you’re interested in any of the above, keep an eye on the website, or give us a yell – but most of all, keep the fucking faith. DeathBoy are still here, still shitfaced and still inexplicably furious about everything.

X

-=Scott=-