Man (hat on)

Here’s a quick video of one of my songs from the Beatles Complete On Ukulele Festival in Brooklyn today. There are more (and some videos of other bands too) that I’ll upload later. For now this will have to do. I need some sleep. ;)

The midweek report, featuring the new recording of Box Junction Heart…

We walk. We ride. We fly. We sleep. We watch plane movies. We take the A train. We arrive in New York. We split up. We sleep again.

After weeks of incessant planning we’ve finally made it to New York. We’re loaded with t-shirts and badges to sell to unsuspecting Americans, and we have a hell of a week lined up.

Ash was surreptitiously bootlegging the Gardeners Arms gig, and has posted some great videos and audio on his Posterous, including the first ever recording of WINKYFACE.

This one’s my favourite. A proper chorus of backing singers (ish) for the Twitter song. Genius. From left to right, Darwin, Matt, Xander and Miranda.

The first few photos are starting to sneak up on the Man (hat on) tour Flickr group too, thanks to Garrett, our official unofficial online community manager. ;)

The Oxford Flickr Group guys and girls rock like a mountain.

Yep. Down here. The link. I blogged it. The whole thing: http://ihatemornings.com/album-artwork-flickr/

On Sunday I learned how screen printing works. It’s basically magic. Watch the video. ;)

For the Man (hat on) tour we wanted to make some t-shirts by hand. I had no idea how. So I called on Nick Gill, who always seems to be able to print one thing on another. He printed the logo on a letter press and threw in a WINKYFACE for good luck.

I’m falling in love with letterpressed artwork. We wanted to use it for the t-shirts, and Nick (of course) knows a guy who does screen printing.

Daley Walton is an artist and a screen printing legend. In a day we created 50 beautiful t-shirts. Selling them will go some way towards paying for our flights… ;)