A month invented to venerate the rather peculiar activities of some roman geezer holidaying in France is already half gone and ICE have gone very quiet. Two of our intrepid ICEistadors (OMG and our very own rock’n’roll teddy bear Paul) are busily repeating their last 4 years worth of holidays, avoiding the same cow pats, drinking the same whiskey and stopping the dogs (possibly Paul too) from mauling the wrong sheep in Skye whilst hopefully coming up with some new ideas which can be bashed into future offerings. A third is somewhere, probably a place quite difficult to point to on a map and where street view would probably need some kind of frequency correction - adjusting at least the vertical and horizontal holds…

Our very own thirsty drumming monkey is stuck at home preparing some roughs of the ICE album following some suggested balances from the normal one. Believe it, its sounding good and hopefully you should get to see the end-product within a few months - certainly some of the out-takes will be made available through our website and through myspace pretty quickly. These will also include a number of songs which won’t hit the album and we’ll be giving these away free both on line and at gigs starting sometime in the autumn.

That leads us onto this months competition. The thirsty drumming monkey deserves a break and fancies two weeks somewhere exotic but not very hot. So, if you live in such a place and have a spare room, then please send your reasons why Lynn should come and stay with you as a question to our forum under the title “Come hither drummist”.

Sensible service will resume once someone has changed the password for this account.

Go with the global warming flow folks and ICE on