Oops!  I  must confess this community has been rather forgotten these past few months.

See, we now have a website and that has taken over from here as the primary outlet for the band. We also have Twitter, Myspace and (shudder!)  Facebook pages nowadays; all of those are linked to from the main website. Check 'em out!

More specifically, on the ( Read more... )

For anyone planning to come to our gig at the Standard, Walthamstow, this Thursday, 2nd December:

If you go to http://donutsh.com/pdf/flyer021210.pdf and print off the flyer to be found there, and bring it along with you, not only will you get a quid off the entry price on the door, but you'll ensure that the Donutsh get a bigger slice of the pot ( Read more... )

Started in America a few weeks ago.

( Finished today. )

SPECIAL ( Read more... )

To my considerable delight we have been making great strides lately -- even if we're still lagging behind kurtbatz  in that we haven't had our first gig yet. There've been a couple more new songs I've penned; we've recruited shazomei as keyboard player and Real Classically Trained Musician Who Knows About Stuff, and then sphelx offered the use of his expertise as a ( Read more... )

Written a few days ago while on the road in the USA (yes, how cliched). Started just north of the Florida-Georgia state line, finished before we got as far as Savannah...

Orange and black
On the attack
If he gets you he’ll lay you out flat on your back
Don’t hunt in a pack
To get him a snack
So you better hang on for dear life, that’s a fact

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I suppose it was inevitable that I'd write a song about him sooner or later. Here it is now. First draft Reykjavik, early am 2 June 2009. Probably needs revising.

( He'll never pull a punch or sugar coat a pill )

( BOX SHAPED HEART )

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Okay, I thought 'Merry Go Round' was just a rip off pastiche of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen I tossed off one night, but everyone's favourite bassist bhata knows better and pointed out last night that it is obviously all about London and recent events here, thus...
( The proof lurks below )