Shelter at Xmas

Chim Chim Cheree is now available on iTunes with proceeds going to Shelter UK and the 2 Shelters in USA that feature in the Phillip Bloom film. Please buy it and spread it round. For the price of half a cup of coffee you will get some funds to some people in need especially at this time of year.

Thanks for coming out and supporting us on the Optimist Tour, its been a lot of fun and a great successso far - which wouldn't happen without all you people being there . So many thanks to you all for joining us . I probably mention it every night but it is quite an education for us (or re-education!) to play the Optimist as it is on the album. I remember being in a pub after a Brighton

gig about 10 years ago and over hearing someone tell his friend he'd just been to see the Turin Brakes - "I dont want to pay to see them play it just like the album " - he was dissappointed in our lack of adventure. I'd hear his comments whenever we talked about how to play live . That, and many, many, many gigs later with kick arse musicians meant that after 10 years we were not exactly playing the album as it appears in people's homes . So revisiting it has been an eye opener - we've had to learn the subtleties of the old aesthetic . Are you still reading ? my word , I am boring even myself - you get the point though. The Optimist LP was good, it had a sound and coherence that we forgot about a while ago....