I wrote this song just before we flew out to Los Angeles to record the new album, it wasn’t quite ready for those sessions but really felt like it belonged within the concept of the album.

When we came home we decided to record the song and so booked into Snug Studios right here in our hometown. We have demoed songs here for years and always have the best time – excessive fast food consumption and the formation of “BeefGrape” our side project featuring Rob and Rich, the studio owners and co producers of this song.

We spontaneously made a video a few nights ago with the help of our backline tech James with a budget of zero and just my little camcorder. Both the video and the lyrics have deep meaning for me – its part of an overall piece, which encompasses the new album and the other 80 songs I wrote during late 2009 and the first four months of 2010 under the umbrella title of – WE EXIST AS SHADOWS.

I hope to release more songs from this mountain alongside the upcoming new album, so you will be getting A LOT of new music from us this year.

Fall On Your Sword is just the start and remember this is NOT ON THE ALBUM and will only be available as a free download here.

I know you guys have all been so patient in waiting for our new record, believe me the three of us cant wait for you to hear what we made.

I made a present for you, Merry Christmas

Every morning when I open my eyes I feel that I’m actually shutting a window through which my mind views things in a more expandable romantic way. I spend the rest of my day trying to re capture this freedom,  many times I’m successful and a new song is born.

The wait is nearly over…………

So Ive been in Hollywood since Tuesday mixing every day with Mark Needham at his studio. We have been so lucky to work with such amazingly talented people on this record and Mark is another great addition to the list. Check him out being interviewed here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI-4fODJyiE
For the first time tonight I’ve been able to listen to what I think is 99% the final mixes, bar a few tiny changes which I’m sure we’ll make.
The last few times Ive been in the US Ive created my own timezone and this time its gone even further – literally falling asleep for a couple of hours around 7pm and then back up at 11pm and awake for the rest of the night and all day, kinda living the UK and USA days in full – a double day. All these extra hours are really helping with the writing the 3rd album – already got a lot of new songs.
In the words of Bon Jovi “I’ll sleep when I’m Dead
4:37am two hours until room service opens!!

I’ve started waking up and immediately naming my dreams, in the same way one names a song, book or film. Last night I was dreaming of a future where we all know the exact date that we will leave this life. I titled the dream Death Calculator and the way in which death is calculated is with a small pocket calculator, the DC. Using different mathematical equations you can keep recalculating how long you have left.

For someone like me, obsessive about schedule’s it actually worked quite well – you know exactly how many days hours months and years you have left so you can allocate exactly the amount of time you would like to dedicate to different pursuits perfectly.

On the other hand the not knowing is quite fun as well

I’m off to Los Angeles to mix the rest of the album at the end of next week – then its time to set about TOURING THE WORLD. I loved touring Europe and the Uk on our first album and getting to travel back to these places has me beyond excited PLUS we will be touring MANY new far flung places. I have to say ever since I saw footage of Queen arriving in Japan in 74 its been a dream of mine – one which is to become true with this album!

Been loving all your artwork you have sent in for our rehearsal room wall, keep it coming
x

Yesterday we changed our rehearsal room around so we are now set up more like a stage, before we were inward facing which was helpful during the writing stage.
So we are now facing a big white wall, which is not very inspiring.
I closed my eyes and let the music take me to all the venues we have played and all the faces we have seen and then the idea hit me!
YOU NEED TO BE ON OUR WALL!
So here is the plan – We want you to send us photos of yourself in LostAlone T shirts, hoodies etc.. looking at the camera like you are on the front row of a show – also any LostAlone artwork and MESSAGES of where you would like to see us play – ANYTHING you want us to read/see that you think will inspire us while we are rehearsing for tour.
WE NEED TO FILL THE WALL.
Once its full we will get a good photo of it may just end up somewhere in the artwork on forthcoming release

SEND EVERYTHING HERE NOW!

LostAlone
C/O The Loose End
8 St Nicholas Mews
North Street
Derby
DE1 3FW

Chaotic minds crave chaotic times
A symbolic loss in the blizzard of life
Like the many reasons to escape this place
A lifetime spent embracing one fate
Wear your war upon your sleeve
A well of thoughts of goals to achieve
But lean to far and you’re falling in
To a well of ideological sins
Panic in the night cause we’re scared to be alive
Have you lost your head, have I lost my mind?
Afraid to be alone but alone is all we are
An incredible force compelling me to scar
I read the last page of the book before the prologue
My cynical mind made me run before I could walk
I had to pre-empt before they took the world away
Are we waging war on life?
Cut the drip from the divine

Its hard for me to comprehend that this time last week I was waiting to get on a BA flight out of LAX having completed the recording of our new album! This week has literally been a blizzard of reunions and re-acquainting ourselves with all things home. Now things become really interesting as we embark on the mixing of the album and laying out the next few years of touring.
A massive thanks must go out to Greg Wells and Jacknife Lee who I personally believe have helped us create a monstrosity to be proud of.
I love details and right now I’m submerged in the ocean of finery swimming deeper into the darkest depths of all detailier.
Thanks for all the positive vibes and the doses of energy you all sent over to get me through the final hours
x

I’m sat in the studio in Hollywood about to spend the day putting an insane amount of backing vocals on all the songs – We finish up the tracking of the record on Monday then move into the mixing stage.
These last few days Ive really started to hear out loud all the weight Ive been carrying around in my brain for these past TWO YEARS, and I cant wait for you all to hear it!
I feel totally exhausted and intend to take a couple of weeks in ultimate relaxation mode once I get back to Derby next week before the mechanics of a world wide record deal start kicking me around the globe.
Send me your energy!!