Thanks to everyone who voted for us this month! It’s thanks to you that “Low Culture” made it into the Alt. Rock Quarter-Finals. Please keep judging during this crucial time, and help us move on to the Semi-Finals!

The lads

Hey everyone-

We had a great time at NXNE. Thanks to all those who helped pack the room at Holy Joe’s. Just wanted to post this link to a recent band/cd review for you to check out.

NXNE CD Review

We’re going to start work on a new record soon, with an extended tour to follow.

More info to come!

The lads

In response to the overwhelming demand, the song “SOMETIMES” is available for FREE DOWNLOAD at the Standland MySpace for a limited time. Enjoy it. We have another free for a limited time download coming soon that isnt quite as soft and soothing as this gem. LOVE, STAND Dublin

On our return from Toronto in mid June we will play one full on “kick out the jams” show in the NYC area. We will be honored to play the renowned little room with the BIG SOUND: Maxwell’s In Hoboken NJ. We realize, as do the Jets and the Giants, that we are utilizing the liberal definition of NY here, but anyone who knows NYC rock n’ roll knows that Maxwell’s is as good a room as there is. The night is Friday, the beer is cold and the sounds will be kicked off with Roger Bryan and his full band at 9:30 pm SHARP ….all the way from Buffalo NY, (home of New York State’s only football team:).

The band has been assigned a coveted opening night slot at North By Northeast. This means we don’t have to play a Chinese restaurant on the Saturday night when everyone is headed to the airport. The band will appear at 10 pm sharp on Thursday June 12th at the Big Bop Concert Hall at the corner of Bathurst and Queens Street West in downtown Toronto. More later!!

For the second year in a row the band has been invited to Toronto’s NXNE Music & Film Festival.

Last year we were unable to attend due to extenuating circumstances, but this year is a different story. It runs from June 12-15th and we will know our appearance details next week so stay tuned. With no disrespect to the monster that is SXSE, this one fits us just a bit better. It has all the spirit of the early days of South By before that one was hijacked by superstars. We will play a few other select stages on this trip in anticipation of a more thorough trek thru North America and Europe in the Fall.

Oh yes, and in the midst of all this we will make another record.

Finally, as previously mentioned, tomorrow night in NYC, our friend from the west coast of New York State (that would be Buffalo), the brilliant Roger Bryan, will play at Rockwood Music Hall at 196 Allen Street just south of Houston.

We will be represented there for sure and anyone who says hi gets a copy of the newly tweaked Transmissions. When we go out in the fall Roger will be with us in a number of cities so check him out tomorrow for yourself. We love that when Rockwood says 8 pm, they mean 7:59 pm so you can plan your evening around it….and you can hear a pin drop when the real singers sing.


Thanks again to all in STANDLAND. We will report more on NXNE next week.

While it certainly was nice playing a few gigs back in the States last month, preparations are being made for another series of gigs and then a full return to the road in the fall. We expect to be in America at the end of June to have tea and cakes with a few potential production partners and to put the final road map plans down for a full push of Travel Light. All must know well that once we pressed the record we were anxious to get it and ourselves “out there” but overriding family concerns lead us back to Eire to attend to non musical obligations. That being said, the office has the wheels in motion for a full campaign to get the disc in as many hands as possible and take it to the stage. At the same time, we are writing away and expect to let new songs be run through the tube amps this summer.

In other news, of which there will be plenty soon, we ran completely out of copies of Transmissions. Before we phoned in another order for the store, we sat down and pondered just what is was that made us a bit reluctant to do so. Suffice to say we as a band decided that in the chaos of the times that were, certain songs and the sequencing itself were a bit out of kilter so we put it back in the hands of the great and wonderful Emily Lazar at THE LODGE. Back it came like a boomerang….re-mastered, re-sequenced, a song or two back on the shelf and two songs added. We hope you like what we did to it. We feel it now reads like the book we read when we made it. If you have it, you are getting another. Anyone who bought it before can email us and off it will go in the mail. It should be here in 2 weeks and we will send a mail out on its arrival.

Something else groovy happened on the way to the butcher. We were moved to take Dressed To Kill to a London producer/re-mix master of note by the name of Guy Cupper (aka GoodGuy) and let him do his thing. No instructions…just do what you do, Guy. The result is 5 Mins and 30 secs of dance floor beats that we trust will have the club world turned right round baby right round like a record baby…..you get the pic.

See you in June in certain cities and in the fall from here to Auckland.