This Honkey Grandma Be Trippin'

So to get it out of the way: Yes. The battered mars bar was actually pretty tasty. The gig was not tasty. The gig was awful for everyone...except for James who was cheered like some kind of prodigal son returning to Windsor.
Anyway that gig/show/concert/disaster marked the end of this current phase/era/chapter/nightmare of Abandoner. We sat down, had a long chat and decided that hardcore is often (not always but often) a fairly limiting genre that is hard to stand out in. I personally am sick of playing with bands who sound the same at every gig we play and I'd happily never play another chug chug breakdown riff if at all possible, Sean understandably doesn't want to scream anymore and there seems little point in continuing down that road.
To that end we're writing a new set from scratch, one that'll hopefully open new doors for us in terms of what promoters will put us on, what venues we can play at and most importantly, what bands we can play with. If we get any offers we'll still thrash through the old set while we work on the new one, but once what we're preparing is complete we'll be well and truly leaving the past where it belongs.
I have no idea how long this is going to take. There's literally no point at all in us rushing this and coming back with a set of half finished ideas so we're gonna take our time and hopefully return with something that's uniquely ours, as we want to have our own sound from the beginning.
I don't know if we'll write these too often in the meantime, we're aiming to put home demos up as they're finished to give people an idea of where we're going with this. If it sucks then our friends will tell us so and we'll keep working until we know we're on to a winner.
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