Musical friends! Two songs that slipped out into the world in various stealth forms between I’m A UFO In This City and Shapes Of Screams albums are available now to one and all for FREE right here

Fall On Your Sword was written just after we recorded the UFO album and narrowly missed inclusion by a few weeks. Although we loved it, continue to do so, by the time we came to SOS it felt like part of a different time and with so many new songs to choose from it was sidelined again. I think it shows the transition of the band, the first time I really implemented extreme vocal harmonies.

Everybody Dies But The Worlds Still Turning is one of my favourite songs I’ve written, it feels like it’s from another part of my brain which I don’t often have full access to. It’s also my favourite guitar solo I’ve ever done. The adrenaline rush when the drums kick is enormous for me 🙂
I know these songs are kind of out and about but thought it would be nice to make sure everyone has easy access to them.
Hope you enjoy the ones that (almost) got away

Summer Of Screams starts here!
We’ve added headliners in Manchester, Rugby and Birmingham to our run of festivals and we’re dropping a crafty show with William Control in London as well to round it off nicely
Tickets available here tomorrow – More to come 🙂

Really proud to unveil the song that I wrote with our producer Dan Weller.
Its called Football United The World and all the proceeds are going to charity
you can get involved by pre ordering right here

For 99p you can get the song and contribute to helping theses kids have a better chance in life.

To mark 10 years since Green Day released American Idiot next weeks issue of Kerrang magazine (June 11th) comes with a free CD. Its a whole bunch of bands covering all the tracks from the record and we’ve done one!
We recorded it directly after finishing the recent headline tour, and it sounds cool – Green Day with a few additional custom LostAlone harmonies 🙂
Such good fun doing covers, loved doing Metallica “Nothing Else Matters” and Meat Loaf “Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad” so this is a nice addition

Myself and Dan Weller (producer of Shapes Of Screams) have written a song for the world cup entitled Football United The World. It’ll be available on iTunes soon and we’re donating every single penny to charity.
So many ace bands have sang on the track and its sounding huge!
Really excited for it to go to radio next week, hope you’ll enjoy it and get involved in helping those less fortunate than us.

Loved the vibe of doing this version of Requiem acoustically in the church where we filmed The Bells! The Bells!! Check it out over here Kerrang!

Excited to announce that we’ll be playing this years Y Not festival. Its a great festival made extra special being as its in our home town!
Tickets available here

So you guys have had a few weeks to digest Shapes of Screams now, how’re you enjoying it?
When you keep something so secretive for a year and then suddenly its out for all ears to consume, well its a strange feeling! I have loved reading your thoughts on the songs and the album as a whole. It felt very special during the UK tour to have the lyrics so forcefully sang back at us, especially after only a few days of hearing them.

I’m already thinking about how to go forward after SOS (demoed a few tracks) and looking forward to many tours and festivals in 2014

If you comment below this post, I’ll always make sure to check back and reply 🙂
Steven

Steven spoke to Kerrang magazine about the making of Shapes Of Screams. Its on shelves until Tuesday 22nd April so make sure you pick up a copy!