Merry Sunday everyone!!

I hope you’ve all been having good times this weekend! Absolute chillage being the key I reckon.

Anyway if you’re stuck for something to do, basically not watching X-Factor and reading this (I know how likely that is… extremely!), you should check out Clay Marzo: Just Add Water.

It’ll take 43 minutes of your time and £1.89 on iTunes, thats a Red Bull and a pack of Wheat Crunchies, I promise it’s better for you than either of those two!

It’s a short film about the surfer Clay Marzo who was diagnosed with Asperger’s a couple of years ago. He’s an immense surfer and as the chilly evenings draw in it’s nice tp see some sun-bathed beaches. It also gives a slightly different view of Asperger’s and Autism than I’ve seen before, tis all positive and inspiring stuff! So check it out like!

Well yesterday we did a days filming for our new video which should be coming your way sometimes this month in theory. There’s a couple of pics here!

Today we’re doing some rehearsals for an alternative version of Monster (the beast that wouldn’t die) and adding finishing touches to LP numero trois along the way. In order for this to happen we’re gonna hide ourselves away from the nicest crispest day, a day that feels like nicely starched sheets, air so crisp you can feel every last alveolus fill!

Anyway here are some nice songs, songs for a nice crisp day, songs to hit the park with.

Ben Taylor – Wicked Way

Donavon Frankenreiter – Move By Yourself

Evan Dando – Stop My Head

I’ve started a little tumblr blog over at iwangriffiths.tumblr.com it’s basically just links to this blog. There’s a few little bloginis on there too though so go hve a peruse if you fancy.

We’re currently filming for our new video so I’ve posted a pic up on there and should put. Few more up today. We’re filming at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff it’s looking pretty cool at the moment.

Also there’s a few more gigs to be announced for november so keep an eye/ear/nose on the site/myspace/twitterface to see when and where they be happening!

Toodle pip peeps!

Nothing to do with music today because I don’t want to. I’m fairly hungover having drowned my sorrows after what can only be described as the some abysmal rugby. Something got left behind in Cardiff City Stadium yesterday, oh woe! Anyway I thought I’d put up some funny shizz to cheer myself and the world up, that’s just how influential a blog this is you know?

Peter Serafinowicz

Barry Welsh

Armstrong & Miller

Today we’re heading over to Llanelli land of the Scarlets, Ray Gravell, basically hardcore rugbydom. We’re going there to play computer games with someone who’s won a competition to play computer games against us. Fancy that eh? We’re considered good enough to be a prize in some places!

Anyway I was thinking because I have a massive shortage of friends who own PS3s (and just generally, do you hear those violins?) that if anyone wants to play some games, without entering a competition, on PSN add me as a friend and we can kill aliens together, do boxing, bust some ghosts or simply bring down governments.

My name is: superiwan

Hit me up!

(God it all sounds so desperate, doesn’t it?)

Thank you to everyone who came to Barfly in Cardiff last Saturday it was well nice to see everyone. We were trying out lots of new songs, arrangements, set-list type thangs, basically being as self-indulgent as we liked. Thank you for coming and being our guinea pigs in gig terms.

the last week has been filled with recording finishing touches, and winding up elastic bands, cranking cogs, WD40-ing old hinges ready to get everything going for the new album!!

Anyhoo here’s some of the tunes that have been powering the powering up!

Future Of The Left – The Hope That House Built

Pearl Jam – The Fixer

Flight Of The Conchords – Demon Woman

OOF!! It’s an enjoyable bunch of tunes.

I reckon Bobby G and The Boomtown Rats were well off with that song.

Think about all that Mondays have to offer,

New albums are released. Today there’s new Pearl Jam and Nick Cave & Warren Ellis audio goodness to be devoured.

It’s like a mini new-year, you’ll promise yourself ‘No drinking this week.’ By Tuesday evening you’ll definitely have drunk something with a percentage written on it somewhere.

Come Dine With Me begins again. A whole new 5 socially inept people attempting to be socially adept to fill your early evenings!

See! Three extremely weak examples to prove that Mondays aren’t that bad, really!

Aha slow bloggage week? yes. Slow lots of other band related stuff? No?

We shall be playing some super sooper small gigs in November, dates over on the Myspazzamatazz!!

Some of you may also have noticed we’re playing a “secret” Cardiff show on Saturday down the old Barfly, should be good craic. Here are some choon type thangs to help you through the next few 24 hours till the gig!!

PJ Harvey – This Is Love

Rory Gallagher – Tattoo’d Lady

Seu Jorge – América Do Norte

You know what? You should definitely go out and buy America Brasil O Disco by Seu Jorge just carry a little bit of summer with you through autumn. It ain’t on Spotify so you have no other choice!

Anyway be seeing some of you hopefully on Saturday fo’ sho’!

A while back I did this little blog about beer, Welsh beer!!

Anyway I said there’s nothing better than a pint of Otley’s on a sunny day in The Plough & Harrow beer garden.

Here it is…

… amazing!!!

Well hopefully be seeing some of y’all on Saturday. nudge nudge wink wink say no more!!!

This Sunday the 13th of  September is Roald Dahl day. Mainly because it was his birthday I’m guessing. Anyway like the majority of everybody, I’m a big Roald Dahl fan, and, like most people, I grew up reading his books.

I went to primary school in a small suburb of Cardiff called Radyr. The same place that Roald Dahl grew up, which I always thought was immensely cool as a 7 year old reading all his books, particularly, my favourite, ‘Esio Trot’. I don’t know what it’s like in other places, but growing up in Cardiff it’s pretty hard to avoid Roald Dahl. Quentin Blake’s artwork is plastered all over the libraries, and we used to go to Cardiff Bay lots particularly to the Norwegian Church where Roald Dahl was christened (mainly because it’s a pretty good cafe).

I don’t really know what I’m trying to say here other than I like Roald Dahl, and this coming Sunday has given me an excuse to write something about it.

Everyone should buy Completely Unexpected Tales too. Get it for Sunday and read a couple of them while munching on a piece of Bruce Bogtrotter’s Cake, I don’t think it’s possible to regret that.