Hi folks.
Now, I know it has been almost a year since I’ve updated this place with a proper blog update of what’s happening with us, and I can only apologise for that. It’s partly because we’re a little lazy but we have been keeping ourselves very busy, honestly.

In my last newsletter/blog thing, which was last Christmas, I had a few predictions for 2010. Let’s see how I fared – I predicted more 70′s and 80′s bands reuniting, and a stadium world tour for ABBA? Faith No More was as close as I got there. A Netherlands v Spain final in South Africa? Spot on, thank you very much. Didn’t put any money on it unfortunately. And I predicted a grand slam for the Irish rugby team in the 6 nations? Close, we came second. I won’t be starting up my own premium rate psychic tarot phone line any time soon.
As far as my Jaded Sun predictions went – we have just released our “Whiskey Drinker EP”. It’s available online from our store at http://www.jadedsun.com/shop. We will be launching it in The Workman’s Club, Dublin on Thursday 28th of October. You can see the details for this show in the news bulletin below. The story behind the delay of its release is far too long and complicated for me to go into at this particular time. Let’s just say that the master tracks of our recordings took a nice little holiday to Australia for a while!

Another prediction of mine was the possibility of a new Jaded Sun album in 2010. Well, we are deep in the pre-production stage of making a follow-up to Gypsy Trip. We will be recording the album during November and December, so, technically we will have an album finished by the end of the year but, unless we can find someone who can mix albums and who’ll work for free over the Christmas period, we will all have to wait until the New Year to hear it.
We won’t talk about the rest of my predictions!

2010 also saw the departure of Gavan Murray on drums. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank him for all he has contributed to Jaded Sun over the past few years and to wish him the very best in everything he does in the future. But the train had to keep rolling so we set out in search of a new drummer. After a lengthy, and at times arduous, trawling of Ireland’s available percussionists, we found the perfect man for the job in Aaron Madden, and we have to admit, things have gelled quite nicely since his arrival.

So the past few months have mainly consisted of the band writing new material in preparation for our second album. There have been a few gigs dotted around the place to test the water with our new material, and also to wet Aaron’s head. But, now the baby killings are over and the songs mountain has been whittled down to 12 brand, spanking new tunes just bursting to get onto your mp3 player and out on stage in a town near you. So, we will try to keep you all posted every step of the way with TwitPics, possible studio video blogs, or vlogs, or whatever, and lots more news of tours and release dates as it happens.

Thanks again for all of your continued support and your patience. We hope you can come along to our “Whiskey Drinker EP” launch in Dublin. If not, we hope you can pick up a copy of the EP from our store. And we hope that you will enjoy the album that we’re working on and we hope to see you all at a gig in a town near you some time very soon.
Much love,
Damo – JS

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