Been a fucking rager of a week for Team Strays. Our honourary Stray, Paul, was nominated for - count em - FOUR Grammy Awards this week! Every one of which is beyond well deserved, because as we all know, Paul is a bloody genius and we couldn't be more excited for him. Also exciting? The amount of press our boy is getting, chock a block with ( Read more... )

One showcase down, one to go. Some more meetings in the morning and another networking "party" after that before we bounce Thursday morning. We have been getting a really positive response, and had a decent crown going last night. We had to schmooze nicely after our showcase and although Hov and 'Ye weren't there, I did find someone almost as ( Read more... )

Saturday. 6 Music. 17:30.
Saturday. 6 Music. 17:30.
Saturday. 6 Music. 17:30.

The Strays are on Jon Holmes' show.

Saturday. 6 Music. 17:30.
Saturday. 6 Music. 17:30.
Saturday. 6 Music. 17:30.
Saturday. 6 Music. 17:30.

(DAJVE THAT'S 5:30)

See you there. We finish recording on Monday. I will be getting very very drunk somewhere Monday afterward. ( Read more... )

I have a newly found, unshakable fondness for Berlin. Can't imagine why. :)

So we had a meeting with Capitol Records in London about 4 months ago. They liked us, but didn't think we were "ready" to be signed. "Eat it," we said, and stropped off. We had another run in with the same rep, a bloke named Chris, at our EP show since Paul had invited him ( Read more... )

I don't know where to even fucking start on the last few days/weekend. It's been absolutely mental. Thank you EVERYONE who came out on Thursday night to see us. Thank you Cakes for taking the amazing pictures that are under the cut below (and for standing on my good side, you delightful bastard. x) and Noods for ensuring that I actually went on ( Read more... )

Hellooooooo from EXOTIC LEEDS.

This is retarded amounts of fun, and the other band is an alright bunch of blokes. It's a bit more posh, this time round, getting some of our bills footed by their record label AND we have a BUS and, christ, we play at night and have to do some bullshitty things during the day it seems, but we've done two shows and ( Read more... )

Our EP is...done! That feels weird that we don't have anything else to do, after obsessing about it for months. Paul has done some amazing work and we sound like a real band on record. This is probably the one thing I've done that I'm most proud of and I am really stupidly excited for you guys to hear it. It feels a bit surreal, to have it under ( Read more... )

I am cashing in ALLLLL of our Karma Points right here and now.

So, Paul, our glorious, producer has been slumming it with us at night and fitting us in between jobs, because, amazingly, he genuinely believes in The Strays and wants to help us get somewhere. He also just finished a gig for his actual day job of producing legit bands with legit deals ( Read more... )

HOLY. SHIT ( Read more... )

Oh god. Oh god.

Oh god.

Jon has talked me into a great many things in my life: Asking Karl Lagerfield at Fashion Week what box number his hair colour is, buying those fake blood capsules to get us out of meetings we didn't want to take (you'd be surprised how many people fail to question a spontaneous stigmata...) and working for this silly paper mag ( Read more... )