Tune in to Salford City Radio on Monday 8th of March at 9pm and listen to Mount Fabric (that's us) talking you through our brand new E.P!

That's an hour of Mount Fabric playing their upcoming E.P. and some of their favourite songs exclusively on Salford City Radio - don't miss it!

Tune in to 94.4FM or listen online at http://www.salfordcityradio.org 

Soooo... The Crow E.P. is well and truly finished, and I've listened to every second of every element of every single sound that went into it a hundred or more times to try and make it as listenable as possible.  I estimate that I would have finished it maybe 3 or 4 months ago had I not been working with a lazy-ass-son-of-a-bitch computer that requires restarting ever 15 minutes!  (Trying to make my PC run Pro Tools is like trying to get a hungover teenager out of bed.)  

Anyhoo, that's all in the past now, it's done, and, here's the exciting news, you'll be able to hear it next week on Salford radio if you happen to be listening!  We're gonna be interviewed and playing our tracks so check us out - more details to follow.

It's been fairly quiet on the gig front lately, apart from the exciting matter of Moho Live on March 12th.  We've mainly been holed up in our secret laboratory plotting how best to conquer the world with our E.P.  We're preparing for 6 months of very hard work, promotion and endless gigs.  

Meanwhile, as always, there are new songs on the way.  The newest songs have been fairly mellow, there's Planes which is a prog rock song condensed into 3 minutes, there's Speleologic which is the most intricate and difficult thing we've ever attempted (and therefore still requires a bit of work), and Monday night Joel and I came up with the makings of a new song that hopefully will turn out well.

So that's the news.  If you haven't done so already, sign up on the mailing list and force your friends to do it too!

It's been a long, long, long road, but today should be the final day of mixing the E.P.  All that remains to be done is creating radio edit versions of all the songs (that's essentially the songs with the unnecessary bits removed, god forbid we lose the listener's attention with a short instrumental section) and then it's all done.  The total time of recording was nothing compared to the weeks and months of battling with my dodgy PC to mix the damn thing; in fact, some of the recordings are from a year and a half ago which is almost as old as the band itself!  So it's taken that long to make our own E.P. but I suppose I only have myself to blame for being such a control freak!

Oh and by the way, it's going to be called The Crow E.P.

It's almost time!  The songs are tantilisingly close to completion, and what you are hopefully listening to right now is the preview clips of our brand spankingly new and superfantastique EP which is so far still known by its working title: "The EP".  Don't you think naming the EP "The EP" would actually be ground-breakingly hysterical?  If you were in a CD shop and you spotted an EP called "The EP", wouldn't you chuckle to yourself and marvle at the craziness of it?  I mean, it's an EP, and it's just called "The EP"!  Isn't that brilliant?  Wouldn't you instinctively want to investigate the sonic abilities of the geniuses responsible for such comical creativity?  Wouldn't you quite happily be prepared to part with several pounds to purchase the EP in question so that it could enrich your life on a daily basis?  No? Seriously no?

OK, we'll call it something else then.  I was thinking something along the lines of "The You-Wouldn't-Believe-How-Much-Work-Goes-Into-Creating-13-Minutes-Of-Music EP"...

Tonight's gig: nasty venue, scary-looking people in the crowd, previous bands getting heckled...  And then we played and completely reversed the atmosphere; we felt like the Beatles afterwards, everyone wanted to complement us.  You never can tell!

It's a perfect way to start the new year because we've been saying that this is the beginning of a new era for Mount Fabric, we are going to take it to the next level, and tonight was a beautiful way to christen our brand new setlist.  So thankyou Stockport!

1. SeeThrough
2. Wrestling With A Wrecking Ball
3. Trapped Messenger
4. Epiphany
5. Treetops
6. Contraband
7. Sarah & The Multiverse
8. Straw Dogs
9. One Shot