Hey everyone…

As you may have picked up from Twitter, I have been at home attempting to write over the past few weeks but thus far have been railroaded by sickness. I am often in the northern hemisphere around this time of year and miss out on the season entirely, so I must admit that some twisted part of me is enjoying the full winter experience of scarves, soups and sniffles. Nothing like being snuggled up in bed with a laptop and “Legends of the Fall” (I know Susannah’s life goes downhill when she marries Alfred, but her wardrobe is incredible).

Today I’m out of bed and in my friend Gareth’s underground studio/office thing hoping the change of scenery will inspire. I just had a good bash at a few ideas I have on the go and got annoyed so now I’m writing this blog (which is work-related so it’s still work) before I’ll re-open garageband and try again. I have been working on a few other blogs for a few weeks now, about journalling and songwriting and such, but my mind-spew is a thing which must be allowed into the public space in mitigated portions and I haven’t had the opportunity to mitigate as yet.

In the past I have promised that this will be the place to find exclusive things, us leaking you info/sneak peeks etc… So, keeping true to my word, I have a little something for you (I might get in trouble for this but who cares)…

Last year touring around America-land, many people were asking how they could buy my first record “What to do With Daylight”. Apparently “you can’t” wasn’t a good enough answer. Loathe to pollute America with the embarrassing artwork, mismatched earrings and a couple of highly questionable production choices from the original WTDWD, we have created an extra-special, extra-better version especially for Hemisphere North. “What to do With Daylight: ABR” (abridged) is on the verge of manufacture and here’s a little sneak peek of the artwork. I think it is cool. We’ll just be doing a limited run of these and will let you know where they’ll be available when we know, so hopefully this is a little something to tide you over until album trois is underway. Unfortunately at this stage WTDWD:ABR will be in the dreaded jewel case because it will only be a limited run and manufacturing costs would have been too high. Lame but true. If all goes to plan, however, this will be the last BF product ever in a jewel case and we will be all about the digipack in the future. It’s important!

Brooke