Hello!

Is there anyone out there?

My band (3 ring circus) play acoustic type stuff and really enjoy it.

Well, Clean Getaway, our third album, is still going great guns and we have some great shows lined up prior to Christmas. You can catch us in the following places:

30th Ocotber - The Fishpond Matlock Derbyshire (Full band)

20th November - PJs Ripley Derbyshire (Full band and the last one for a while)

26th November - Crocus Cafe Lenton Nottingham (acoustic)

28th November - The Royal Derby supporting the mighty Foy Vance (acoustic band)

1st December - Malt Cross Nottingham (Acoustic)

10th December - The Vic Derby (Acoustic band)

Obviously the album will be available at all these shows.

We hopefully have another Nottingham show in November and a gig at the Vic in Derby in December. There may also be a visit to Sheffield in November which is waiting to be confirmed.

We're also starting to write some new tunes, which is always my favourite time, full of optimism and positivity. This is always the case until they are released and largely ignored but hey ho......

I'm in a new realm of positivity at the moment which I'm hoping lasts for a little while longer than the last one, which was round about the time of the release of the current record. It quickly vanished. Russell is always telling me to be positive like him, so I'm going to try hard. In fact yeah, fuck it all. Who cares if hardly anyone comes to watch us anymore, or that we've been playing for 8 years and not really got anywhere, and that we constantly play with bands who are pretty shit and yet get far better gis than us. And thats a fact, I can't think of one band we've played with from the local scene who are anywhere as good as us. And if that makes me sound like a cock, then good.

We've never been arse lickers and we ain't going to start now. I love music and I'm a complete dreamer, believing that our song writing prowess and musicianship will, shock horror, get us noticed. The day we try and become trendy with some angular guitar played out of tune and with absoulutely no melody, will be the day I smash all my lovingly built guitars on the back yard. Although there have been lots of times I've wanted to smash them on the heads of "musicians" we've played with.

Can't sing - check
can't play properly - check
Look like a twat - absolutely check
namecheck all the cool bands plus some 80s shit as influences - check

WELL DOME, HERES A SUPPORT WITH THE LATEST LAME SUPERSTARS AND A RECORD DEAL IN ORDER TO INFLICT YOUR "MUSIC" ON THE PUBLIC.

YEP, CAN'T YOU SEE I'M BEING POSITIVE

Some twat on a forum once called us pub rock, knob head. He was thinking of his mates band, or Robbie Williams pub singer and professional twat. (sue me fat boy) THey also said why don't we pack up as we'd not got anywhere in 6 years. I pointed out we released a record nationally which not many other bands get to do, played in front of 30,000 people and done two acoustic tours of america. I finished it by saying if he agreed to stop breathinh, we'd stop playing. Quite funny for me I thought.

I can type what I want here really as no fucker will read it, much like no one will listen to our music. But you know what, I really don't care anymore. You see I actually enjoy playing with Russ, dave and rob. and when me and russell have a writing session and he sings something magical over one of my pieces of music, it gives me goosebumps and that optimism all comes flooding back. So its worth carrying on, just to keep getting that rush for a relatively short period of time. And I can also say here that russell is one of the best singers and lyricists I've ever heard and Dave is by the best bass player anywhere. The man could walk into any band and make them better. Well apart from Pearl Jam, but definitly U2 ;-)

Oh.......hopefully see some of you at a show!