Well I guess we can finally call it official now we have some glorious artwork courtesy of Tom (Fervour Design). All three tracks are now available to listen and download on various sites (see below) - let us know what you think here, on Facebook or via Twitter!

Front cover

Back cover

You can find the EP to listen to and download on the following sites:

• Right here, foo - why go any further?
• Last.fm - free downloads here too!
• ReverbNation - share our player.
• SoundCloud - see the waveform as you listen, should you want.
• MySpace - you dirty, dirty boy.

Last week had us in the studio, seven years on, with Nino Errico once again at the helm at Autumn Road Studio. The Slow Down EP was pretty much a live recording - this time we were doing it "properly": separate tracks, overdubs, layers - the lot.

Discussions, voting and several lines of reasoning initially failed us but we managed to pick the three tunes to get down: Guidelines, F*ckbeast and Priest. Luckily it didn't resort to tossing a coin (or fighting). All three tunes are relatively new - some of you may have heard them at gigs this year.

Tom contemplates the distance to the garage and has brown flashbacks.

After a slow start setting and warming up Boz nailed the first drum track after lunch (and a beer). The other two came swiftly afterwards, preceding an afternoon of recording bass, guitars, lead guitar and eventually vocals and percussion.

Props to all the band for knowing the tunes well enough to be able to pull em all to pieces and record separate tracks, sections and layers... 12 guitar tracks on Priest was it? And there was no cut n' pasting for Boz so 40,000 babylon points to him for getting them down from start to finish.

Rich suggests "How I Love Thee Richmond Sausage" but Boz isn't convinced.

Thanks to Nino for his work, encouragement and feedback - the tunes will hopefully be here (and our Facebook and ReverbNation pages) very soon.

No guitar amplifiers were harmed during the production of this EP.

I was wondering if any of you lot were wondering where we've wandered off too. Were you? I wonder. Anyway, with Boz firmly in the drum seat, we're currently working on getting a full set of our own songs together (only three covers!?) and practising up for some gigging...

There's a few new tunes lurking about (some of you may of heard the recent demo we recorded at Mad Dog Studios) and the order isn't finalised, but the list currently looks something like this: Madam Majiva, Banquet, This is My Place, Betty Ford, Where is My Mind?, Just Give Me, LSF, Slow Down, Lonely, Kill the Robot, Priest, F*ckbeast, Open Ground.

There's also a couple of others flying around and the possible pillaging of some of Boz's more recent back catalogue... see you soon!

Ish. I took the opportunity to update the website a bit. We're now running the latest version of Drupal 6, with a re-worked events calendar, events listing and galleries. I've also completely replaced the ageing theme with, well, a practically identical one built on a much better, cleaner framework called, um, Framework.

Let me know if there are any issues or if you have any suggestions to improve the site.