Hey everyone! Reporting in from some solid rehearsal sessions. Been working full steam on the songs I’ve already written for the next record, collective favourite right now is “The Bells! The Bells!” so much more unwritten that shall be written, I can feel it in my bones. Excited for the upcoming tours and you’ll be getting more from UFO as well 🙂 Steven

Hey everyone! SOOO Happy with this! The new issue of Total Guitar has a 3 page feature on my custom built (by my friend Jimi Woolley) Star Wars effects pedals! Its the September issue and its on sale now! Steven 🙂

I’m A UFO In This City is just £4.49 on iTunes!!! If you don’t own it yet now is the time! Buy it to death! Share the hell out of this post and generally spread the word of melody
Steven

Great memory from the UK tour – this is a still from little tour diary coming your way soon (pic by http://deathfromtheleft.tumblr.com/ )
I loved doing the acoustic songs inside and outside the venues! Steven

Good evening from Cork! In the last few minutes both Scott Mills on Radio 1 and Zane Lowe have BOTH played Love Will eat You Alive! on BBC Radio 1 So great to be getting this much support! Please tweet and Facebook them and tell them how much you are loving the song!

Conscience breed out this insurrection
We’ll be a race of imitation
As the scourge of every promise
Take the delicate exile away
Lucid you bore the weight of all the world
Microbe prisms faith surrender
Purge your every broken mirror
Prozac eyes engulf our leaders
Prone enough to waste your every bone
Do you get what you pray for?

NME posted the ‘Do You Get What You Pray for?’ video on nme.com check it out here.

The video is now up on YouTube as well, check it out here.

The single is available for Download with B Sides on February 5th

Hey everyone welcome to 2012 and the new look website!

You’ll see at the top of the page the banner for the play.com pre order of the new record. You can do this right now – they have the CD/DVD version for £8.99 and every copy comes signed. Over the next couple of weeks we will be putting a few other pre order options up online including a bundle and obviously nearer release date iTunes will have both standard and deluxe versions available.

Check out the tour dates section for all our current shows and keep an eye out for new additions, we intend to tour all year. Check out the shop section for a new line of “I’m A UFO In This City” t-shirts and hoodies, as well as some of our favourite older designs that are still in stock.

All last week Kerrang Tv had our new video as video of the week and today NME posted our new video on nme.com check it out here.

2012 – lets make it happen together!

Thanks to @jake74 for the creation of the site and its continued upkeep.

So many of you guys have asked me for the lyrics to this song (which is not even out yet!) Id love to see some cover versions of it – We’ll send something out to the person or ensemble with the best version. So cool that it had an impact on so many of you from being played on just one tour, it really was a highlight for me with all your arms swaying in the verses.

Creatures
I’m just happy that its over
this is what its like when its all done and over
I clothed myself in the sentiment of trust
I was losing I was out of control
I’m just happy that its over
This is what its like when you’re lost and you are over
This is what its like when you’re lost and you are over
This is what its like when you’re lost and alone
And the creature you are is all that you own
I’m just happy that its over
I’m still breathing without reason
In time I will recover feeling
Sin and virtue I hold onto
On and on and on and on and
This is what its like when you’re lost and alone
And the creature that you are is this creature you own
I’m just happy that its over
I’m at peace in this explosion
And the creature love inspires takes over

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Last night I went to see a band that had a big impact on me growing up. It was a one off reunion show by The Beekeepers. They’re from my home town and NOT one of the many other bands from around the globe who have since adopted the same name.

Its hard to describe how important this band is to everything I’ve done since. Having been listening exclusively to Queen since the age of 5 our new guitar player, of the band we had at school, told me about this band I should check out. We went to see them play in a pub (we were dramatically underage!), in Belper which is near to Derby, I was instantly convinced of their greatness.

The Beekeepers captured my imagination to such an extent that looking back I’m pretty sure the songs I was writing at the time, for my school band, were my own interpretations of the early Beekeepers demos!

I was actually hesitant to go to the show last night, some things are best left in the past as great memories but I am so glad I went now! Although they were missing original rhythm guitarist Julian Berry they still had the exact same power and passion that captured my impressionable musical mind years ago. I believed back then and last night reaffirmed the belief that it is a crime this band didn’t achieve bigger success.

My favourite recording is the 6 track demo that I managed to get because our guitarist at the time was the nephew of the bands manager, it really captures the band as I remember them, intense energetic and fun.

The song Elsewhere is one of the few songs I wish I had written (along with Queen’s Somebody To Love) that’s the best compliment I could give a song!
I’ve been thinking a lot (maybe too much) about time on earth, destiny and legacy while making our new record and it makes no sense to me that a song like Elsewhere (from the mini album THIRD PARTY FEAR AND THEFT, BUY IT FROM iTunes) is not in consciousness of the world – Although we did try and break it into the US market while cruising along Santa Monica during a day off from recording, blasting it out the hire car speakers!

Thanks to the Beekeepers for the music, the memories AND for playing Deep Fried Thought!!

x

Thanks so much to all who sent in photos of your cities, its so interesting going through them.
From what I have seen so far they’re almost equally of cities we have already visited AND cities/countries we have yet to reach which is amazing!
I don’t think I really thought, in advance of receiving them, how much of an insight into your worlds these photographs would provide us.

My friend Rob sent me this picture of me on tour which I love, check more of his work out at robbakerashton.com